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Tattershall in Lincoln County England History and GeographyTATTERSHALL, a market town and parish in the southern division of the wapentake of GARTREE, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 30 miles (S.E. by E.) from Lincoln, and 125 (N.) from London, containing 627 inhabitants. This place, anciently a Roman military station, as two encampments at Tattershall park in its immediate neighbourhood indicate, was granted at the Conquest to Eudo, one of William's followers, whose descendants erected a castle here about 1440, of which some remains are yet visible south-westward from the town: it stood on a moor, and was surrounded by two fosses, which received the waters of the Bane, but the principal part was demolished during the parliamentary war: the north-west tower, a rectangular brick structure one hundred feet high, flanked by four embattled octangular turrets, was built by Sir Ralph Cromwell, treasurer of the Exchequer in the reign of Henry VI., and still remains; he likewise erected a lofty tower, with a spiral staircase leading to its summit, about four miles northward, as an appendage to the larger structure, but this is now in a very dilapidated state. The town, situated on the river Bane, near its junction with the Witham, is much decayed, and the trade inconsiderable: a canal from the Witham to Horncastle passes through it. The market, originally granted by King John to Robert Fitz-Eudo, was formerly on Friday, but is now on Thursday: fairs are on May 15th and September 25th. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the manorial court of Kirstead, and in the patronage of E. Fortescue, Esq. The church, which is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is situated on the eastern side and in the outer moat of the castle, and was made collegiate, in the time of Henry VI., for seven chaplains (one of whom was master), six clerks, and six choristers: at the dissolution its revenue was estimated at £348. 5. 11. The collegiate buildings have been taken down, and the church alone remains, which is a beautiful and venerable cruciform structure, consisting of a nave, transept, and choir, of which the last was once much admired for its magnificent painted windows, but since their removal to the chapel of Burleigh, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter, this part of the edifice has been allowed to fall into decay. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A National school, wherein about one hundred and thirty children are instructed, is held in the south side of the transept of the church; and an almshouse for thirteen poor persons, originally established by the license which raised the church into a college, still remains, with a small endowment for its support. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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