Revd Edward Trollope’s memorial cross in Leasingham churchyard (Photo: SLHA)
Parish/DistrictLeasingham/North Kesteven
Locationsouth west of the tower of St Andrew’s church
CategoryModern cross
National Grid RefTF 05641 48544 (estimate)
DesignationNone
Stone TypeLimestone
RefsDavies, D S, 1913, Lincolnshire Notes and Queries
Vol XII No.5. pp142-43; The Builder, 1902, p.321.
VisitsDS/HH: not visited

The Rt Revd Edward Trollope (1817 – 1893) was a great scholar and antiquarian – and hopefully a good vicar and bishop also. In 1843, he was appointed to the rectory of Leasingham, near Sleaford, and he held this living for 50 years. In 1877 he was made Bishop of Nottingham but retained the Leasingham living. Trollope became editor, and later chairman, of the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society and  is mostly remembered as the author of the book: Sleaford and the Wapentakes of Flaxwell and Aswardhurn in the County of Lincoln (1872).

When Trollope died in 1893, a standing cross was erected to his memory in the churchyard at Leasingham. It was designed by architect Arthur Henry Skipworth whose design drawing of the cross was published in the journal ‘The Builder’ in 1902.

The drawing of Skipworth’s design for Trollope’s cross – published in ‘The Builder’ in 1902

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