Howell, Lincolnshire

Howell's Grade II* listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Oswald.^[13] Originating in the 13th century, and restored in 1870, it includes a chancel, nave, a north aisle, chantry chapel, arcade of three bays, porch, and an Early English double bell-cote.^[14][15]

The doorway to the south is Norman, described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "over-restored". In the chancel is an old altar slab with 5 crosses which Pevsner believes is Anglo-Saxon – on the south side of which is a low sill serving for a sedilia, and on the north, double projecting aumbries. The Decorated Gothic octagonal font, bearing Hebden, Rye, and Luttrell shields, was given to the church by Richard de Hebden (died 1373).^[14][15]

In the chancel are several inscribed commemorative stones, the oldest of which is to Sir Nicholas de Hebden (died 1416), and his wife Katherine (died 1447). There also an incised slab and effigy to John Croxby, a 15th-century rector. In the chantry chapel is a 14th-century tomb with the busts of a lady and child, and a Jacobean monument to Sir Charles Dimok (or Dymok) of Howell, MP for the City of London (died 1602), and his wife Margaret (Butler). In the nave is a slab to Richard Boteler (died 1457), and his wife, Matilda (died 1456).

In the churchyard are the listed remains of a cross inscribed to the memory of John Spenser, rector, 1424–1448.^[14][15][16] Since Cox recorded the Spenser cross in 1916, the inscription has become undecipherable.^[17]

The church, with those of Asgarby and South Kyme, is in the Heckington Group of churches.

Howell's two further listed buildings are a late 17th-century rectory, and early 18th-century Howell Hall.^[18][19]

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