Address:All Saints Place, Stamford, Lincolnshire
Telephone:01780 756942
Website:www.allsaintschurch.info
Open: Daily 8.30am to 5.00pm

All Saints is an impressive church dating back to the 13th-century and was built on the site of an earlier church mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. Having suffered damage during the Wars of the Roses much rebuilding work was undertaken during the 15th-century by wealthy wool merchants William and John Browne. William was also responsible for founding Browne's Hospital in the town.

Within the church there are memorial brasses of the Browne family, a carved angel roof, a reredos of the Last Supper and magnificent stained glass windows.

During 1333-34, a group of students and tutors from Merton and Brasenose Colleges in Oxford, who were dissatisfied with conditions at their university, migrated to Stamford to establish a rival college. However, the rebellion was quickly ended by Edward III who ordered their return to Oxford.
Today only the gateway of the new Brasenose College still exists in St Paul's Street with a replica of the 12th-century Brasenose door knocker. The original knocker was removed to Brasenose College, Oxford in 1890.

Address:Stamford, Lincolnshire
Telephone:01780-763153 (Pam Sharp)
Email:pamela@pamartins.fsnet,co.uk
Open:Every weekend from 11-4pm, also Bank Holidays and other times for guided tours for parties, by special request.

 

Browne's Hospital is a building of outstanding medieval almshouses founded in 1475 by a wealthy wool merchant William Browne of Stamford, and his wife Margaret. Its purpose was to house twelve paupers.
The buildings comprised a chapel, dormitory, audit room, and quarters for the warden. Although much of the building was extensively restored during the late 19th-century the chapel, audit room and entrance passage retain much of their original glazing.

The mediaeval buildings are open to the public every weekend from 11-4pm, also Bank Holidays and other times for guided tours for parties, by special request.

On show are the Common Room where the bedesmen slept with its chantry chapel at the end. This contains famous stained-glass of very fine quality. Upstairs is the Audit Room, also with stained-glass, the Confrater's Room and the ante-room which houses a changing exhibition each year.

The present church of St Martin was built in the late 15th-century, probably around 1480, and replaced the original 12th-century church which had fallen into decay. Although the nave has a modern hammer-beam roof the roofs of the North and South chapels are original. St. Martin's is the only surviving medieval church which was built outside the town walls.
The interior of the church houses the tombs of the Cecil family, the most renowned of whom is William Cecil who died in 1598. He was the Lord High Treasurer of England during the reign of Elizabeth I and responsible for building Burghley House.