Keddington

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Keddington
Lincolnshire

St Margaret's Church, Keddington
Location
Grid reference: TF345886
Location: 53°22’40"N, -0°1’14"E
Data
Population: 158  (2001, incl Brackenborough
and Stewton)
Post town: Louth
Postcode: LN11
Dialling code: 01507
Local Government
Council: East Lindsey
Parliamentary
constituency:
Louth and Horncastle

Keddington is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire, two miles north-east of Louth.

Ticklepenny Lock on Louth Canal

The parish church, St Margaret, was restored in 1871-73. The church is a Grade II listed building.[1] The church has a 15th-century wooden eagle lectern, and a south door with transom.[2] The eagle lectern is one of only six in England of its kind.[3]

Other Grade II listed buildings include the remains of two locks on the disused Louth Canal, four farm houses, a cottage, and the remains of Louth Abbey. A Cistercian house, Louth Abbey was founded in 1139, and was dissolved at suppression in 1536. Still visible are earthworks and ruined chancel walls.[4]

Outside links

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References

  1. National Heritage List 1359987: Church of St Margaret
  2. Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 181; Methuen & Co. Ltd
  3. Yates, Jack; Thorold, Henry: Lincolnshire – a Shell Guide; p. 85. Faber and Faber (1965). ISBN 0571062970
  4. National Monuments Record: No. 354511 – Louth Abbey