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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 26/07/2026

St Peter's turriform nave was quickly transformed after the Norman Conquest into a typical longitudinal then aisled parish church, and the marketplace chapel of St Mary (initially All Saints) underwent a similar expansion, leaving Barton-Upon-Humber with two large parochial churches.

St Peter, Barton-Upon-Humber from the S. The S aisle wall and windows are very late 13th century (broadly influenced by later Rayonnant, uncircled geometric forms), the clerestory is brick and dates to the fifteenth century.

St Mary Barton-Upon-Humber from the SE. The chancel aisle nearest us has Y-traceried lancets, dating to c.1300 and a reticulated curvilinear window added in the later 14thc. The west tower was built anew at the middle of the 13thc.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 26/07/2026

Barton was a big place: 188 documented individuals at the main manor in Domesday suggest a population of around 1000, one of the largest in North Lincolnshire. Its later importance as a port was eclipsed by Kingston-Upon-Hull on the opposite bank, founded by Edward I in 1299

My overlay of interesting features in the environs of Barton-Upon-Humber, over aerial photography dated 2007.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 26/07/2026

St Peter's, is quite simply, the best understood medieval church in England, as after redundancy was declared in 1972, it was taken into the governmental Department of Environment in 1978, when a thorough, careful excavation and recording was begun. Ultimately it assessed 2,800 human graves.

View from the rood screen, looking down at the excavated Norman apse footings, 1980. The two squares are post-medieval brick-faced burial vaults.

Another view, later 1980, looking the opposite direction to the E, a plank walkway has been constructed over the burial vaults with people working on the lower archaeology.

View of the excavated church in 1980 from the S aisle, looking NW. All the pavement and lower parts is up except for the burials and sleeper walls of the arcades.

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