Kilnsea

‘Her mother had risen early, it being the weekly wash day, leaving her three young daughters in bed. The house was only about thirty yards from the church, the village streets and dam intervening. One of the girls declared it was snowing, but this the others pointed out could not be, as it was summer time. When they went downstairs, they found the church had fallen, and what they had seen was a cloud of dust and lime ...’
Catherine Medforth, born at Kilnsea in 1820, remembers the fall of Kilnsea church in 1826. As related to Miles & Richardson (1911).