KIRTON, a parish in the wapentake of KIRTON, parts
of HOLLAND, county of LINCOLN, 4 miles (S. S. W.)
from Boston, containing, with the chapelry of Brothertoft,
1803 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £21. 10. 10., endowed with
£200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and
in the patronage of the Master and "Wardens of the
Mercers Company, London. The church, dedicated to
St. Peter and St. Paul, is a noble cruciform structure in
the decorated style, with a square tower at the intersection,
and ornamented with battlements and pinnacles;
the western entrance seems to have formed part of an
earlier edifice, which was probably erected in, the thirteenth
century. Here were a market and an annual
fair, but both disused.