The CCT

We're devasted to have discovered that just before #HolyWeek vandals entered into St Helen's, Little Cawthorpe, Lincolnshire & targeted the beautiful stained glass windows. The faces of saints & of Jesus have been used for what can only be described as target practice #Thread 1/8pic.twitter.com/vD9kUquYil

Carefully aimed projectiles have smashed specific areas of the glass, mainly several heads & faces. Examination of the centres of impact which are circular & measure about 3mm-5mm in diameter would suggest an airgun pellet or small stone fired by a catapult. #Thread 2/8pic.twitter.com/ke6WiOM6QY

Some of the damage is at a height too great to have been attacked from ground level except with some kind of long implement using exceptional force. Built in 1859 to replace a medieval church, this is the third place of worship on this site, the earliest dating to the 1100s. 3/8pic.twitter.com/ApgjawujCF

Its precious stained glass, painstakingly created by artists and craftsmen was made by Lavers, Barraud & Westlake, was installed 1860-1890. The south windows depict Christ and the Doctors and the Presentation in the Temple. The impressive west window, donated by... 4/8pic.twitter.com/0kliNTfbkz

Lysimachus Parker who died in 1860, shows Noah's Ark, the Baptism of Christ & the Crossing of the Red Sea. This #HeritageCrime attack is particularly upsetting to local people from the tiniest parish in Lindsey who cherish this church and who saved it from certain demolition 5/8pic.twitter.com/nOeUiiTsMJ