We may well suppose, that, as at that other Kirkby, now known as Pontefract, a fine church was once a feature of the locality, so it was once the same here; but this is no longer the case. If those armorial bearings which Gervase Holles saw in the rectory 250 years ago, were originally in the church, as would seem probable, they would doubtless embellish a fabric of some size and beauty. We can hardly imagine, that the benefice, under the patronage of rich prelates like the Bishop of Durham, in a parish also connected with important monasteries like those of Kirkstead and Revesby, having also powerful landowners such as the Becs, Willoughbys, Cromwells, and other “Lords of Tattershall” (where so fine a collegiate church was provided by them), would have been left with an unworthy church here. But whatever may have been its former merits, of these there are no longer any traces. On the south side lies the square base of a churchyard cross, shorn of its shaft, probably by the reckless Puritans, who may also have demolished, as they often did, the fine stained-glass windows, of which the armorial bearings, once in the rectory, may likely enough have been remnants. Gervase Holles mentions two monuments which were in the church in his time. Of these one was in the chancel, having a quaint Latin inscription to the following effect:— Richard Lambard lies by this stone entombed; Of this Church formerly Rector was he. Who caused this Chancel to be newly built. He presented a Missal, and other valuables. On the 14th day of January he sought the stars, In the 1450th year of our Lord. To whom God grant eternal rest! Amen. On a flat slab, beside the above, was the following, also in Latin:— William Bulliar lies here entombed; Of this church formerly Rector was he; He caused a new Crucifix to be erected. He presented a gradual {117a} and cross, and other valuables. He died the 11th day of December, 1510. There was also apparently a window to his memory.