COLEBY, a parish in the higher division of the wapentake
of BOOTHBY-GRAFFO, parts of KESTEVEN,
county of LINCOLN, 6 miles (S.) from Lincoln, containing
322 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated
in the king's books at £6. 12. 1., endowed with £200
private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Provost and Fellows of Oriel College,
Oxford. The church, dedicated to All Saints, has a
tower, the lower part of which, with the south door and
nave, exhibits fine specimens of Norman architecture;
the rest of the building is in the early English style,
with later additions, particularly the upper portion of
the tower and spire.