From _Willoughby_ to _Alford_ and on by _Saleby_, _Withern_, _Gayton-le-Marsh_, _Great_ and _Little Carlton_, and _Manby_, the road is not remarkable; but, after crossing the main road from Horncastle to Saltfleet, which has come over the Wold _viâ_ Scamblesby, Cawkwell and Tathwell, it arrives at _Grimoldby_. Here the church is noteworthy for the size and excellence of its gargoyles. Outside it has heavy battlemented parapets, a good gable-cross with pent-house over it, as on the Somersby cross, and the entire shaft of a churchyard cross. Inside, the nave is whitewashed, but the fine old roof remains, and on one of the beams is the pulley block for the rood light, as at Addlethorpe and Winthorpe. The door is old and has been enriched with carving and there is the lower part of a good rood screen with three returns, possibly for lights, projecting twelve inches westwards. This arrangement is also found in the rood screen at Thornton Curtis. In the north porch is a fine holy water stoup. [Illustration: _Manby._] For the next six miles churches are to be found at every mile. [Sidenote: SIR ADRIAN SCROPE] _South Cockerington_ has a little holy water stoup just inside the door. Part of a handsome rood screen is stowed away under the tower, the rest being in _Manby_ Church. The church has had a profusion of consecration crosses—a dozen have been noticed, some of which still remain cut in the stone and filled with dark cement. Nearly all the churches about here are in two styles—Decorated and Perpendicular; and though _Grimoldby_ exhibits only one style, it is the transition between these two. The most noticeable thing in the church is the alabaster altar tomb to Sir Adrian Scrope, with effigies of his five sons over whom is the legend ‘similis in prole resurgo,’ and two daughters and an infant, over whom is written ‘Pares et impares.’ Does this mean “Like in face but different in character,” or “Like their father but not so good-looking”? The knight is represented armed and half reclining on one elbow, with his helmet behind him and his mailed glove by his knee, the head and face very life-like, the hands and fingers extremely delicate. On a brass plate he is described as the thrice honourable Adrian Scrope, Kt., etc., and this verse follows:— Tombs are but dumb day-books, they will not keepe There names alive who in these wombes doe sleepe, But who would pen the virtues of this knight A story not an epitaph must write.