Great Ponton, Lincolnshire

Description
Ponton, Great, a parish in Lincolnshire, on Ermine Street, the river Witham, and the G.N.R. main line, on which it has a station, 3 1/2 miles S of Grantham. It is supposed by some to be the Ad Pontem of the Romans; it has yielded many Roman coins, pavements, bricks, urns, and other relics; and it has a post office under Grantham; money order office, Grantham; telegraph office, railway station. Acreage, 2744; population, 456. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor and most of the land belong to the Earl of Dysart. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £480 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church was built in 1519, and is a building of stone in pure Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower 80 feet high, built in 1519 by Anthony Ellys, wool stapler of Calais, and has a rich parapet with eight crocheted pinnacles, and on all three faces the motto " Thynke and thanke God of all." There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels and an endowed church school with about £90 a year.