St Paul's Church, Stamford

[4] "Externally the arched corbel table, the flat east buttress, and the frieze at sill level of the windows show this south wall at once to be Norman.

"[4] The walls are of Barnack stone, coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and incorporate miniature arches and rounded corbels, supporting a later battlemented parapet.

[3] In the south east corner where the altar stood (and stands) are three piscina recesses presumably credences with carved chamfered ogee heads of the fourteenth century.

The remains (the lower halves) "of two good C14 figures”[5] thought to be of St John and the Virgin Mary found during excavations in the early twentieth century were placed high up on the south wall.

Over the interior of the west door is an arched inscription commemorating Eustace Malherbe (Eustachius Malerbe), Member of Parliament for Stamford in 1322, and also a male, bearded, stone head, believed to be of Christ.

Attached to the church was originally the cell of an anchorite, mentioned in 1382, 1435 and 1521, wherein a female hermit was walled up effectively for the duration of her life.

[3] The move occurred perhaps as early as 1548[4] when the school's future was secured by Act of Parliament arranged by senior court official and old boy, William Cecil, and had certainly been completed by 1556.

[6] The benches are carved with names of those who made substantial contributions to the original rebuilding fund or, subsequently, to the life of the chapel over the twentieth century.