In Domesday Todingtune, and in old writings Nether Tointon, is about a
mile eastward from the town of Horncastle, the parishes adjoining. The
manorial estates, which comprise nearly the whole parish are the property
of Launcelot Rolleston, Esquire, of Watnall, in the county of Nottingham,
by whose ancestors it has been possessed for several generations. The
church, which is a small modern erection, being rebuilt in 1811, contains
a very curiously sculptured font, and the following inscription on a
plate of copper in the north wall:
“Heare lyeth the Body of EDWARD ROLLESTON Esquir who departed this
Life the twenty-third of July in the thirtey-fourth year of his age
interr’d underneath this place the fourth of August Anno Domini
1687.”
The patrons of the rectory are Lord Gwydir, and the Baroness Willoughby
of Eresby, his lady.