WELBOURN, a parish in the higher division of the
wapentake of BOOTHBY-GRAFFO, parts of KESTEVEN,
county of LINCOLN, 9 miles (N. W.) from Sleaford,
containing 489 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the
king's books at £19. 16. 0., and in the patronage of
the Earl of Buckinghamshire, The church, dedicated
to St. Chad, exhibits fine specimens of the early, decorated,
and later styles of English architecture: the tower,
which is of very early date, is surmounted by acrocketed
spire, in the shape of a sugar-loaf, supported by flying
buttresses springing from the angles of the tower.