St Botolph's Church, Boston, Lincolnshire, England, UK - Sundials on Waymarking.com

St Botolph's Church, often known as Boston 'Stump' is spectacular from outside and is described by Pevsner as a 'giant among English Parish churches' Boston Stump has always been a landmark to both seafarers and people travelling across the flat fenland that surrounds the town. It is the tallest of the Parish churches in England.

Replacing an earlier Norman church construction of the present building commenced in 1309 at the east end and was completed by 1390 apart from the tower. The tower construction was started in 1425 - 1430 but not completed until 1510-1520. The Chancel was originally only designed to be three bays long but was lengthened by two additional bays to the east possibly because of the growing importance of commercial and religious life of the town.

In post reformation times there has been remodelling of the interior of the building. With some minor exceptions the exterior has remained much as it would have been at the time of the reformation. Internally however a major programme of work remodelled the church with box pewing, a timber and plaster vault and a sweeping away of the medieval screens, rood and seating arrangements. The interior of the church now largely reflects two significant periods of restoration, in the mid 19th century and in the second decade of the 20th Century.

Over its 700 years the church has played its part in both national and international history. It will be forever linked through the puritan emigrants who in 1630 followed in the wake of the Pilgrim Fathers and founded a new Boston in the United States of America. The size of which has long since surpassed the Lincolnshire Boston in size and importance, but the close links are never forgotten.

(original text adapted from www.parish-of-boston.org.uk)

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