Bainton - Church of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a Grade I listed building.  Pevsner noted that the church was totally rebuilt in the 1330s or 1340s by the rector William de Brocklesby, except for the south-west corner of the chancel with its priest's doorway, which date around 1300. Until 1715 the tower supported a spire. The font is Norman and the pews 18th century. A tomb to Sir Edmund de Mauley lies in the south aisle; [de Mauley, Steward to Edward II, died at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314]. The tomb has an ogee canopy, crocketed gable and flying angels holding the soul of Sir Edmund in a napkin.

There is also a brass to Roger Godeale, died 1429.  A south porch and vestry were added by Henry Wheatley in 1843, and a restoration carried out by "Fowler of Louth" in 1866. The church's listed rectory south of the church is of the late Georgian period. According to Pevsner a local tradition connects the rectory's coniferous garden with Paxton