Saving Spilsby sandstone structures

On a recent visit to Lincolnshire, Sherds encountered an unusual group of churches, all of them built of a stone that comes from the more colourful end of the Munsell Colour Chart. For those not familiar with this essential archaeological tool, it consists of swatches that you can use to match and describe soil and stone colours, most of which are drab variations of brown and grey. Towards the end of the chart there are all the colours of the rainbow. Surely no stone is really that colour, one might think, but many of the churches around Spilsby, Lincolnshire, are built from locally quarried green sandstone that has the moss-green colour of florists’ oasis (below). Like an oasis, Sp