Nocton, Lincolnshire

Description
Nocton, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands on a small rivulet between Lincoln Heath and the Car Dyke, three-quarters of a mile N of Nocton and Dunston station on the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint railway, and 7 1/4 miles SE of Lincoln. It has a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Metheringham. The parish comprises 5968 acres; population, 578. The manor belongs to the Robinson family. A Black priory was founded on the site of the hall in the time of King Stephen by Robert D'Arci, and was given at the dissolution to the Brandons and the Stranges. Nocton Hall was built by Sir W. Ellys, and was destroyed by fire in 1834. The present hall, erected in 1841, is in the Tudor style, and stands in an extensive and well-wooded park. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £450 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1862 at a cost of about £6000, defrayed by the Countess of Ripon in memorial of the late Earl of Ripon; is a building of Ancaster stone in the Early Decorated style, modified by French colouring; displays much elegance both externally and internally; includes a mortuary chapel, containing a marble altar-tomb, with recumbent statue of the Earl of Ripon; and has a tower of square basement and octagonal superstructure surmounted by a lofty octagonal spire. The interior was beautifully coloured under the direction of the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott, R.A., in 1873-74.