Lusby is a village and former 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...

 located about 4 miles (6.4 km) north west of the town of Spilsby

Spilsby

Spilsby is a market town and civil parish in Lincolnshire. England. The town is situated adjacent to the main A16 Trunk Road at the southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds north of the Fenlands, east of the county town of Lincoln, north east of Boston and north west from Skegness.The town has...

, and about 5.5 miles (8.9 km) south east of the town of Horncastle, in the civil parish of Lusby with Winceby, in the county of 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.

At the time of the Domesday Book

Domesday Book

Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...

 in 1086, Lusby was listed as "Luzebi" and consisted of 26 households, 180 acres of meadow, a mill and a church.

The parish church is a grade I listed building dedicated to Saint Peter

Saint Peter

Saint Peter or Simon Peter was an early Christian leader, who is featured prominently in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. The son of John or of Jonah and from the village of Bethsaida in the province of Galilee, his brother Andrew was also an apostle...

 and dates from the 11th to the 15th century. It was altered and reduced in 1893 by Ewan Christian. In the 20th century a narthex

Narthex

The narthex of a church is the entrance or lobby area, located at the end of the nave, at the far end from the church's main altar. Traditionally the narthex was a part of the church building, but was not considered part of the church proper...

 was added. It was 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....

. A late 11th/early 12th century grave marker is built in above the keystone of the blocked south doorway of the nave

Nave

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.

Lusby Church of England School was built as a National school

National school (England and Wales)

A national school was a school founded in 19th century England and Wales by the National Society for Promoting Religious Education.These schools provided elementary education, in accordance with the teaching of the Church of England, to the children of the poor.Together with the less numerous...

 to serve the villages of Lusby, Winceby

Winceby

Winceby is a village in the civil parish of Lusby with Winceby in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, located in the Wolds, about from Horncastle and the same from Spilsby....

 and Asgarby

Asgarby, Spilsby

Asgarby is a hamlet in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies just off the B1195, a road that runs past the battlefield at Winceby. Asgarby is on the opposite side of the road to the battlefield....

. It closed in 1962.