All Saints Church

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All Saints Church is a Grade I listed Anglican church in Barrowby, Lincolnshire, England. The church is 2 miles (3.2 km) west from Grantham on a hillside overlooking the Vale of Belvoir, and to the south of the A52. All Saints is in the ecclesiastical parish of Barrowby and Great Gonerby.

History: A church and its priest at Barrowby is mentioned in the Domesday Book account. During the suppression of the monasteries All Saints' medieval stained glass was destroyed, as was, in 1561, a rood screen with its attached gilded crucifix and figures of Mary and St John, and the Easter Sepulchre. The suppression also caused the breaking-up of the altar stones and the sale of the altar cross and candlesticks. Thomas Hurst was rector of Barrowby from 1629, having been born here in 1598. Chaplain to Charles I, he spent the First English Civil War with the Royalists, during which time, in 1644, he lost his living, which was sequestrated and given to Robert Ram, Minister of Spalding, Lincolnshire, who was chaplain in the Parliamentary army. He was reinstated in 1660. He died on 17 March 1674 and is memorialized in the church. A further notable minister was James Menteath, who became rector in...