Ashby Puerorum

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Ashby Puerorum
Lincolnshire
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St Andrew's Church, Ashby Puerorum
Location
Grid reference: TF327714
Location: 53°13’23"N, 0°-0’47"W
Data
Post town: Horncastle
Postcode: LN9
Local Government
Council: East Lindsey
Parliamentary
constituency:
Louth and Horncastle

Ashby Puerorum is a small village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. The village is six miles north-west of from Partney, four miles east of Horncastle, to the north of the A158 road, and to the west of Bag Enderby.

Bishop Oliver Sutton (1280–1299) was responsible for the renaming of this village, coining the name Ashby Puerorum or "the Boys' Ashby". This came about after the bishop assigned the revenues of the vicarage of Ashby to the upkeep of the boys in the cathedral choir.

The parish church, St Andrew, is chiefly of Early English Gothic with Perpendicular Gothic windows and tower. There are brass effigies to Richard Lytleburye (d. 1521) and his wife Elizabeth (d. 1523).[1][2]

The church is a Grade II* listed building.[1]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 National Heritage List 1147719: Church of St Andrew (Grade II* listing)
  2. Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 48; Methuen & Co. Ltd