Grantham has a variety of churches of different denominations. The main local landmark is the parish church of St Wulfram's, which has the sixth highest spire among English churches at . It is the second tallest church in Lincolnshire, after St James' Church in Louth. It is also home to England's first public library, dating from 1598, when Francis Trigge, rector of Welbourn, gave £100 for a small chained library of books for the clergy and "literate laity" of Grantham. Two hundred and fifty of the original volumes remain and are kept in a small room above the South Porch. From October 1974 the church was permanently floodlit at night.