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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1325/00/00 Chancel, built in the early C14, has a reticulated window of 3 lights in the north wall, and 2 to the south, all with moulded hoods. Nave arcades, also C14, 4 bays, octagonal shafts with floriate capitals, double chamfered arches.
1350/00/00 Church of St Wilfrid is rebuilt by William of Tothby on the site of the old church which was pulled down c 1350. The North Chapel was founded as a chantry chapel by the Tothby family in 1396.
1535/00/00 St Wilfrid's 4 stage tower is rebuilt 1525-1535, but part of the top stage and parapet are C19.
1550/00/00 The C16 gabled south porch, surmounted by a parvise room, features moulded plinth, stepped corner buttresses and moulded parapet with pinnacles. C16 tower arch has octagonal responds and triple chamfered arch.
1566/00/00 Francis Spanning establishes a Grammar School in the parvise of Church Of St Wilfrid.
1591/07/20 Anne Hutchinson Born Bridget Dryden Newman, wife of Francis Marbury, gives birth to a daughter, Anne Marbury, in Alford, Lincolnshire, where she is baptized on 20 July 1591. Her father serves as curate of Saint Wilfrid's and schoolmaster of the Alford Free Grammar School.
1616/03/15 William Wentworth (elder) Architect Susanna Carter Wentworth, wife of William Wentworth, is delivered of a son, William, who is baptized on 15 March at Alford in the county of Lincoln, the child received into the parish church according to the ancient usage of the realm.
1668/00/00 In the chancel, a standing alabaster monument surrounded by original wrought iron railings dedicated to Sir Robert Christopher, died 1668, and wife, of Alford Manor House.
1867/00/00 George Gilbert Scott Architect Church Of St Wilfrid is restored under the direction of Sir G G Scott. The 4 bay north aisle arcade is added.
1867/00/00 Stained glass in the east window is by Sir Ninian Comper.

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Particulars for Church Of St Wilfrid:
Area of Significance Architecture
Sight Category Building
Building Type Church
Era Medieval Europe
Area of Significance Religion
Historic Use Religious Property
Building Attribute Stained Glass

Data
NHLE List Entry Number: 1063026



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