Grainsby, Lincolnshire

Description
Grainsby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, within 2 miles WNW of North Thoresby station on the G.N.R., and 6 1/2 S of Great Grimsby. Post town, Great Grimsby; money order and telegraph office, Waltham. Acreage, 1168; population, 143. Grainsby Hall, a fine mansion, with greater part of the land, belongs to the Haighs. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross yearly value, £273 with residence. The church is an ancient structure, and at present composed of chancel, nave, and western tower. The chancel is divided from the nave by the remains of an Old English screen, where there are still traces of a former rood-loft. The dilapidations of the walls were made good some seventy years ago with brick and stone, and the embattled Norman tower has on its south wall the symbolic fish window, a distinction shared in by only some 100 other ancient churches in the kingdom.