SEMPERINGHAM, a parish in the wapentake of AVELAND, parts of KESTEVEN, county of LINCOLN, 3 miles (E.S.E.) from Falkingham, containing, with the chapelries of Birthorpe and Pointon, 462 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £2. 15. 8., endowed with £400 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, appears to have been originally a larger structure, and is principally in the Norman style, with a plain tower of later date, crowned with eight rich pinnacles. Gilbert de Sempringham, rector of this parish, and founder of the Gilbertine, or Sempringham, order, erected here, about 1139, a priory in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for nuns and canons, whose revenue, at the dissolution, was valued at £359. 19. 7.: it was the superior establishment of the Sempringham order, where their general chapters were held: the buildings stood a little to the northward of the church, where the site only is discernible, being surrounded by a moat.