Peter Blannin Gibbons Binnall

Peter Blannin Gibbons Binnall (1907–1980) was a minister of the Church of England and antiquary. He wrote books on English churches and cathedrals, which often included his own photography. Binnall was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries for his contributions to scholarship on ecclesiastical architecture. and died on 29 November 1980 at Hemswell Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. He married Evangeline S. Goss, in October 1936 at Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire. They had one son Richard Peter Binnall (born: 2 October 1937).

His parents were Richard Gibbons Binnall (22 Aug 1872 – 16 July 1961), Rector of Manton, Rutland, and Amy Geraldine Binnall, née Pearson (1879–1969).

Papers, manuscripts, and his collections of ephemera and books are held in archives including Lincolnshire Archives, Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Church of England Record Centre at Lambeth Palace.

Editor of the Buildings of England series Nikolaus Pevsner thanked Binnall in the Preface to the Lincolnshire volume of the series, noting that he: 'put his unparalleled knowledge of Lincolnshire churches at our disposal and went... through all I had written'. In the volume, further credit to Binnall's work appears with reference to All Saints' Church, Beckingham, with Binnall providing a 14th-century dating for the Chapel of St Mary, and the masonry of St Peter's at Newton on Trent.

Publications by Binnall Caistor Church and Town. Some Historical Notes. Caistor, 1934. 27 pp. . Practical Hints on the Preservation of Old Churches. Wragby: Lincolnshire Old Churches Trust. 8 pp. . Caistor, Lincolnshire: Historical notes. Rev. ed. Gloucester: British Publishing Company, 1960. 36 pp. . Thornton Abbey, Lincolnshire. An Historical Guide, etc. with Illustrations. Notes on Churches & Abbeys. no. 48. London: SPCK, 1960. 23 pp. The Collegiate of the Holy Trinity, Tattershall, Lincs. Illustrations by Addys, Boston, Ltd. Gloucester: British Publishing, 1962. 28 pp. . The Nineteenth Century Stained Glass in Lincoln Minster. Lincoln Minster pamphlets, second series, no. 3. [Lincoln]: Friends of Lincoln Cathedral, 1966. 16 pp. . Lincoln Cathedral. Pride of Britain Books. London: Pitkin Publishing, 1975. 24 pp; text in French, German, Spanish, Dutch and Swedish. .