Editing Sausthorpe (section)

===Church===
The [[parish church]], dedicated to [[St Andrew]], is a Grade II [[listed building]], designed by [[Charles Kirk (senior)|Charles Kirk]] and built in 1842 on the site of an earlier medieval church.<ref>{{Cite PastScape |mnumber=1034892 |mname=St Andrews, Sausthorpe |access-date=10 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{National Heritage List for England |num=1063638 |desc=St Andrews, Sausthorpe |access-date=10 August 2011}}</ref> Its construction was sponsored by Rev. Francis A. Swan, [[Lord of the Manor]] and parish rector from 1819 until his death in 1878.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sausthorpe, St. Andrew|url=https://www.lincswoldsandcoastchurches.org/2019/07/sausthorpe-st-andrew.html|access-date=26 October 2022}}</ref> The spire is a prominent landmark resembling on a smaller scale that of [[St. James Church, Louth]], {{convert|12|mi|km}} to the north.

[[Pelham Dale]] [[Society of the Holy Cross|SSC]] – prosecuted and imprisoned for [[Ritualism in the Church of England|ritualist]] practices in 1876 and 1880, and so regarded as a martyr by [[Anglo-Catholics]] – was the parish priest from 1881 to 1892.{{Citation needed|date=August 2018}} His grave lies under the trees on the eastern side of the [[churchyard]]. Inside the church, several [[Dymoke]] family gravestones date from the 18th century, having been transferred from the earlier church.

In 1885 ''[[Kelly's Directory]]'' recorded Rev. Charles Trollope Swan [[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]] as living at Sausthorpe Hall, a "modern mansion in a park of 30 acres". He had inherited the roles of Lord of the Manor and Rector from his father, Francis Swan, in 1878. He granted the rectorate, including the rectory living, residence (the Old Hall, see below) and {{convert|34|acre|km2|2}} of [[glebe]] land, to T. Pelham Dale in 1882.