Market Stainton is a village and civil parish

Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

 about 7 miles (11.3 km) north of the town of Horncastle, Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, England.

The village was described as "Staintone" in Domesday Book

Domesday Book

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 of 1086, when it consisted of 28 households, 80 acres of meadow, and two mills.

The parish church is a grade II listed building dedicated to Saint Michael and built of greenstone

Greenstone

Pounamu is several types of hard, durable and highly valued nephrite jade, bowenite, or serpentinite found in New Zealand. Pounamu is the Māori name. The rocks are also generically known as "greenstone" in New Zealand English....

, limestone

Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....

 and red brick, dating from the 13th century. The church is now disused and it may be made redundant by the Diocese of Lincoln

Diocese of Lincoln

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Market Stainton Hall is a grade II listed brick built country house.