Hybald

The Venerable Bede, in his Ecclesiastical History, describes St Hybald as a "most holy and continent man who was an abbot in Lindsey".

[5] It is conjectured, in the Dictionary of Christian Biography (1877–87), that this is the Benedictine abbey at Bardney,[6] then in the old Kingdom of Lindsey, now Lincolnshire.

The remains were locked outside the abbey but the appearance of a mysterious beam of light, that night, led the monks to reconsider.

Hybald's body remained undisturbed until it was rediscovered in 1864, when, the, then, dilapidated, church, was, rebuilt.

[nb 2] In addition to Hibaldstow, three Lincolnshire churches are dedicated to Hybald at Ashby de la Launde, Manton and Scawby.