The Woodhall or Iodine Spa, Lincolnshire / by Robert Cuffe.

  • Cuffe, Robert.
Date:
1868
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Woodhall or Iodine Spa, Lincolnshire / by Robert Cuffe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bevesby, situated at the distance of six miles south from Horncastle, on the road from that place to Boston, was formerly the seat of the Bight Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., the companion of Captain Cook, as before mentioned. Cf Kirkstead Abbey a small ruin only remains. It was founded in the year 1139 by Hugh Eitz-Eudo. South of the ruin is the Chapel, to which common tradition gives an earlier date. It is of early English architecture, having lancet windows at the sides and east end, and an ox-eye window over the entrance at the west end. The roof is beautifully groined, the ribs springing from corbel tables; and against the south wall on the inside is a rude figure in stone of a knight templar, with the front part of his helmet in the shape of a cross. Tattershall is a small market town on the banks of the river Baine, near its junction with the river Witham. It is a place of considerable antiquity, having been a Roman military station; traces of two encampments are still visible. There are two objects of interest which will well repay a visitor,— the Castle and the Church. The Castle was built by the Lord Treasurer Cromwell, 1440. It was originally of large dimensions; but being a strong place of defence, it received much damage during the civil wars of Charles I. The part now remaining is a rectangular brick tower of exquisite workmanship, about one hundred feet in height, divided into four stories and flanked by four octa¬ gonal turrets; and is raised on ponderous arches, forming spacious vaults which extend through the angles of the build¬ ing into the bases of the turrets. The windows are of the pointed order, well proportioned, and contain tracery : those on the south, west, and north sides are large; those on the east are smaller. On the ground floor is an elegantly carved stone chimney- piece, embattled and ornamented with arms and treasury purses with this motto—Nay je droit. The Church stands about eighty yards east of the Castle near the outer fosse, and is a beautiful and spacious stone