St Peter’s Church

Until the dissolution of religious houses under Henry VIII, a Benedictine Abbey occupied the site. The present church is from 1722. It is not the interesting part.
What is interesting are the lumps and bumps in the surrounding friends and chidrens playground. The Abbey remains.
I was sent here, when working in the archeology dept. to measure and record for a future dig.
Excavation of Humberston Abbey (1965 – 1970) revealed fragments of medieval painted glass, monks’ coffins, bronze buckles and many other items of interest. Some lovely rainbow glass fragments and metal book furniture are my favourites.
The thing is they were mainly amature archeologists and once they had uncoved some high walls (I was impressed at what was under those lumps and bumps when I saw the photos) they stopped. The thing is the archeology would have been below that!
Anyway we didn’t get permission because of the graveyard and playground. Worth a look if you are interested though. A few stones, some worked, are above ground.
There is also a huge mound, behind the church, which is an ice house. Possible to get in on the other side but unfortunately in the garden of the manor. I knocked and asked and they let me go in and take photos.