St Peter

St Peters church is used regularly for worship and the harvest festival and carol services are particularly popular, drawing visitors from the area as a whole. The Viking Way long distance footpath passes the church and, as our visitors book records, many walkers take time to savour this quiet rural location and to visit the church to experience its peace.

There has been a worshipping community on this site for many centuries and the Doomsday Book mentions a church at Normanby although today there is no trace of what was presumably an Anglo Saxon building. The present building was probably built in the 13th century and the earliest parish registers, now held in the Lincoln County Archives, date back to 1561. By 1867 the building was described as 'dilapidated' and the parish appointed Louth architect John Fowler to restore the church.

During the following year he built an entirely new chancel (which he painted duck egg blue), rebuilt the medieval south aisle, restored the tower, designed a new reredos, raised the roof of the nave, and added new windows, floors and pews all at a cost of £1000!

The east window contains 10 panels of painted German glass from 18th century depicting biblical scenes and the window to the right of the altar is by Kempe (1897) and was brought to this church from neighbouring Claxby.