Religious Buildings
Lincoln Cathedral Lincoln Cathedral stands on a hill 200 feet above the centre of Lincoln. Visible on all sides for up to 25 miles away, this stunning building is the best located in this country and possibly even Europe. Click here to read more The Malandry At the North-western angle of the great South common, near the junction of the road leading to Canwick with the Lincoln and Sleaford Turnpike, there is a. quadrangular patch of land Click here to read more |
Priories and Friaries. Friars are different to monks, instead of living a life of solitude they would live within a community among lay people supported by donations or charity. Friars would work within a province not in a religious community Click here to read more The Churches By the time of the Reformation many of the parishes were so small that they could not afford a minister and had insufficient funds to maintain the church. Click here to read more ![]() The Close
In the medieval period Lincoln was divided into three areas: the City, the Bail and the Close; each was a locally independent self-governing place. The Close was, and still is the area surrounding the Cathedral Click here to read more Greestone Stairs There are a few names of places in the ancient city of Lincoln which may deserve a brief notice, as having retained to this day the use of words long since obsolete in our vernacular English. Click here to read more |