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Description: | PRN 70534
[Note: this record contains material from PRN 70092, now deleted.]
This church is situated in the Upper Wigford suburb, suggesting that it was founded by the mid 11th century if not earlier. Its associated parish stretched across both sides of the High Street, presumably representing one of the many small urban estates in this area. The church was patronised by the Sutton merchant family from at least the mid-late 14th century and it appears to have been still in use at the Reformation. It was demolished by order of the City Council in 1551. {1}
The church is first mentioned in documentary sources in 1147-8. {2}
The church was sold to 30 persons in 1551. It was still being demolished in 1560 when stone was taken for paving the streets in Wigford. {3}{4}
There is some difference of opinion regarding the location of this church. Current sources place it on the area centred on the junction of modern Chaplin Street and the High Street (the location given in this record is based on this) whereas older sources place it slightly to the south, around Monson Street. {1}{3}
Disturbed human remains were discovered during a watching brief on Chaplin Street in 1994. No individual graves could be indentified and the bone was intermixed with animal bone, tile, limestone and pottery. It seems likely that this material represents a dump produced during the clearance of the Holy Trinity church site rather than the position of a surviving burial ground. {7} | Temporal: | 1050 - 1551 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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