WILSFORD, a parish in the wapentake of WINNIBRIGGS-and-THREO,
parts of KESTEVEN, county of
LINCOLN, 4 miles (W. S. W.) from Sleaford, containing
341 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £10, and in the patronage of Viscount Melbourne.
The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has a tower
and spire, and exhibits an admixture of the early and
decorated styles of English architecture: the font,
which is octagonal, with concave sides, is of later-date.
A Benedictine priory, a cell to the abbey of Bee in
Normandy, was founded here in the reign of Stephen;
at the suppression of Alien houses it was settled upon
the abbey of Bourn, in this county, and at the dissolution
was granted to Charles, Duke of Suffolk.