Skirbeck is a long v-shaped formation wrapped around the south and east side of Boston parish.

Skirbeck appears in two entries in the Domesday Book of 1086, when it was recorded as consisting of a total of 42 households and had two churches and two fisheries.

It appears to have been located on the west side of the Maud Foster Drain, opposite the present Hospital Bridge.

Dedicated to Saint Nicholas it is a Grade II* listed building dating from the 13th century.

From 1826 it was only used to hold prisoners for trial, and after 1837 Boston borough gaol became available and Skirbeck House of correction closed.

[5][6] Saint Thomas Church in Skirbeck Quarter started as a classroom of the original school building in 1866, and in 1885 became a "tin tabernacle".