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Extract from the Heckington Travel Guides:
The village of
HECKINGTON
, twelve miles west of Boston, has a tidy little centre that drapes around the church of
St Andrew
(Mon-Sat 9am-5pm or dusk in winter; free), a splendid example of the Decorated style, with a pinnacled spire and elaborate canopied buttresses framing the flowing tracery of the windows. Inside, the original fourteenth-century chancel fittings have survived, including the battered tomb of the founder, Richard de Potesgrave, and an
Easter Sepulchre
, whose folksy and energetic carved figures are set against a dense undergrowth of foliage. The sepulchre, one of the finest in Engl...
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