The church was largely destroyed in the English Civil War in 1643 and left as a ruin until 1739–40 when it was rebuilt in a Georgian style.

[2] St Martin's Church was rebuilt in 1873 in West Parade at the corner with Orchard Street by the architect A S Beckett.

Today, only the graveyard, which lies between St Martin's Lane and Garmston Street remains.

[4] One of these cups, with a paten cover made by an unknown maker with initial 'A' and hallmarked in London in 1569, is now on display in the Lincoln Cathedral Treasury.

The tomb, which now lacks its canopy, is made from alabaster sourced from Nottingham, and is likely to be the work of the noted sculptor Maximilian Colt.

When Edward James Willson visited the church in 1807 he found the canopy had fallen and broken the faces of the recumbent figures.

In 1889 a Mr Justice Grantham, who claimed to be a descendant, removed the tomb without permission to Barcombe in East Sussex.

[6] Sometime before 1985 the tomb chest and fragments were reassembled in St Mary le Wigford and this was recorded by the Church Monuments Society.

There are two very similarly carved black marble slabs, the source of which is yet to be identified, in the east end of the chancel of Lincoln Cathedral.