St Edith’s Church, Tinkle Street, Grimoldby, Louth, Lincolnshire: Tree-ring Analysis of Timbers to the Nave & South Aisle Roofs
Author(s): Alison Arnold, Robert Howard, Cathy Tyers
Dendrochronological analysis was undertaken on 24 of the 27 samples obtained from the upper and lower timbers of the nave roof and from the south aisle roof of St Edith’s Church. Three samples had insufficient rings for reliable dating. This analysis produced two dated site chronologies. The first site chronology is 211 rings long, spanning AD 1227–1437, and comprises nine samples from the lower nave roof timbers and one sample from the upper nave roof timbers. Interpretation of the surviving sapwood suggests the timbers were probably cut down in a single episode of felling during the mid to later part of the fifteenth century. The second dated site chronology is 100 rings long, spanning AD 1621–1720, and comprises three samples from the south aisle roof. Interpretation of the surviving sapwood suggests the timbers were again cut down in a single episode of felling during the period AD 1735–60. Two further site chronologies, respectively comprising five and two samples, were also created but these could not be reliably dated. It is likely, however, that the constituent timbers of each group are coeval. Four measured samples remain ungrouped and undated.
- Report Number:
- 194/2020
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 47
- Keywords:
- Dendrochronology Standing Building
