St Faith

The first thing that faces you as you enter through the north door of the nave is the alabaster monument of Elizabeth South, placed on the blocked south door. Dame Elizabeth, the young wife of Sir Francis South of Kelstern, died in 1604. Her monument shows her sat up in a chair with an hourglass in her hand and her foot resting on a skull. Beside her are two putti. The whole thing is a touching memento mori erected by a bereft husband. Sir Francis would suffer loss again for on the north wall is a plainer tablet to his second wife, Dame Anne, who died in 1620.

Three glorious windows by Sir Ninian Comper are situated in the nave. Commissioned by the Sleight family in the 1950s, they commemorate Sir George Sleight and his wife. Sir George was a self-made man who rose from being a cockle gatherer on Cleethorpes beach, to owning the biggest fishing fleet in the world based in Grimsby. He and Lady Sleight are buried in the churchyard.

And finally, take a look at the medieval bench ends in the west end of the nave. They are rather rustic and fun, with carvings of Reynard the fox with a goose in his mouth.