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St Nicholas' Church is a Grade I listed Church of England parish church dedicated to Saint Nicholas, in Fulbeck, Lincolnshire, England. The church is situated north from Grantham, and at the southern edge of the Lincoln Cliff in South Kesteven. St Nicholas' is noted in particular for its association with and memorials to the Fane family of Fulbeck Hall, and its Norman-Transitional period font. The church is within the Fulbeck conservation area.〔("Fulbeck" ), Lincolnshire Heritage at Risk. Retrieved 27 July 2013,〕 It is in the ecclesiastical parish of Fulbeck, and is part of the Caythorpe Group of churches in the Deanery of Loveden and the Diocese of Lincoln. Other churches in the same group are St Vincent's at Caythorpe, and St Nicholas' at Carlton Scroop with Normanton.〔("Fulbeck P C C" ), Diocese of Lincoln. Retrieved 27 July 2013,〕〔("Statement of Needs" ), Fulbeck. Diocese of Lincoln. Retrieved 27 July 2013,〕 ==History== There were two churches and two priests at Fulbeck in the 11th century, recorded in the 1086 ''Domesday Book''.〔( "Fulbeck" ), ''Domesdaymap.co.uk''. Retrieved 27 July 2013,〕 The present church was subject to a major restoration of 1887-88 by Charles Kirk, in Norman and Perpendicular style at a cost of £1,350. This included a new chancel arch and the enlargement of the chancel east window. Major rebuilding of the chancel had taken place in 1871, and between 1853 and 1858 new pews were added and the pillars restored. Of the earlier 9th- to early 13th-century church only small parts remain, particularly at the base of the chancel and tower. Restorations were carried out in the 14th and 15th century. In the 14th, aisles were replaced, with north and south doorways and a porch added—these remained after the Victorian restoration. In the 15th, the sides of the nave were raised by the use of a flat lead roof supported by a new clerestory—the previous roof had been steeply pitched.〔〔''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire'' 1933, pp. 192-193〕〔("St Nicholas’ Church" ) - An account by Colonel King-Fane, sometime after 1911. Fulbeck Parish Council. Retrieved 27 July 2013,〕 The parish register dates from 1565.〔''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, pp. 401〕 The earliest record of a Church of England rector at Fulbeck is of Alexandri Seyton in 1542. In 1834 the patronage for the church rectory, listed with a value of £20 15s. 7d., was provided by Colonel Henry Fane,〔Allen, Thomas (1834): ''The History of the County of Lincoln: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time'', Volumes 1-2, p.270〕 son of General Sir Henry Fane GCB. It had remained in Colonel Fane's gift by 1855, when the incumbent was the Rev'd Edward Fane, MA, (1863 ) with a yearly modus—a payment in lieu of tithes—of £563 10s. and of glebe land.〔''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire'' 1855, p. 82-83〕 The Rev'd Vere Francis Wilson MA, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge became parish priest in 1884, with glebe and commuted tithes amounting to £470, in the gift of Lt-Col Mildmay W. Willson.〔 From 1912 (1952 ) the Rev'd Henry Carrington Fanshawe Bingham BA, of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge was the incumbent, with his living in the gift of Francis Christopher Fane.〔 Harriet Arbuthnot (1793–1834), the 19th-century diarist and social commentator, is buried at St Nicholas' in the Fane family plot. Born at Fulbeck Hall as Harriet Fane, she became the second wife of politician and diplomat Charles Arbuthnot and the close confidant of the Duke of Wellington and Lord Castlereagh.〔Smith, E.A (1994): ''Wellington and the Arbuthnots: a triangular friendship'', p.154. UK: Alan Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-0629-4〕 St Nicholas' received a National Heritage Grade I listing in 1966.〔 In 2011 St Nicholas' was subject to theft of lead from the church roof by a "Lithuanian gang" which had been responsible for twenty such thefts, particularly in Lincolnshire.〔Duell, Mark: ("Lithuanian gang which stole lead from church roofs and left a £1m repair bill are jailed for total of 20 years" ), ''Daily Mail'' 13 Dec 2012,. Retrieved 27 July 2013〕〔Colman, Alex: ("Five men jailed for lead thefts from 14 churches across Lincolnshire" ), ''Lincolnshire Echo'', 14 Dec 2012,. Retrieved 27 July 2013〕 Following the thefts the porch and south aisle were re-roofed in stainless steel coated with terne.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St Nicholas' Church, Fulbeck」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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