Harpswell Hall was built in the early seventeenth century and demolished in the mid-nineteenth. It was an H-shaped building standing a short distance south of Hall Farm.

The site is listed because of the exceptional gardens that can still be traced.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1019068.

St. Chad's church, Harpswell, has an Anglo-Saxon tower, 13th century nave arcade and a 14th century effigy.

An inscription on the tower records the gift of a clock (no longer present) as a thank-offering for the victory of Culloden in 1746.

Mark Acton, 2006

"Parish church. Late C11, C13, C14, restored C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1309029 

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Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"The church of St. Chad is a plain building of stone in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and a western tower with pinnacles containing 2 bells and a clock, given, according to an inscription above it as a memorial of the battle of Culloden, April 16, 1746"

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Church viewed from the northeast with Commonwealth war graves in the foreground.

"A section of the churchyard is set aside for the graves of service personnel.

Comprising a Service Plot of four rows, it contains the war graves of a Royal Engineers soldier, eighteen British airmen and one Canadian airman, and six non-World War graves.

A former RAF base, RAF Hemswell (formerly known as Harpswell Aerodrome when it was first opened in 1918 by the Royal Flying Corps) adjoins the parish"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Chad%27s_Church,_Harpswell  

North aisle taken down and north nave wall rebuilt in C19.

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Medieval bench end with a shield enclosing the stigmata.

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Chancel is largely the product of restorations in 1890-91. 

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Chancel is largely the product of restorations in 1890-91. 

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"On the north wall of the chancel is a fifteenth-century brass of John Whichcote in armour and his wife, Elizabeth Tyrwhit, in a complex butterfly headdress"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Chad%27s_Church,_Harpswell 

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View looking east towards the chancel.

Wall to the left constructed 1890-91 when there were major restorations and the north aisle was removed.

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View looking west towards the tower arch.

"C14 interior tower arch with double chamfered pointed head supported on polygonal capitals and responds"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1309029 

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Church suffered major restorations in 1890-91 during which the north aisle was removed.

Pulpit presumably provided as part of those restorations. 

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Queen Anne coat of arms 1703.

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"C14 south porch"

"West side of porch has 2 stage C14 buttress with rectangular window in west side with 2 cusped ogee headed lights, restored in C19.

Porch interior flanked by stone benches"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1309029 

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Looking from the south aisle across to the nave.

The arches of the arcade are unusual - two pointed arches in Early English style and one semicircular in Norman style.

One pier is round and the other octagonal. 

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C19 stained glass.

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Barrel font in transitional style c1200.

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Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states  

"Recumbent stone effigy of a man in gown and hood worn over a tunic or cassock; on the head is a skull cap and at the feet a large grotesque head; below is an inscription to William de Harrington, rector here circ. 1346" 

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Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"The church was restored in 1890-91 by the late Sir Thomas Whichcote bart. and on taking down the east wall of the chancel there was found in the basement a large stone slab, 7 feet in length and 22 inches wide, bearing the figure of a priest in vestments, and round the margin an inscription in Norman-French, undated, to John Gere, parson, of Harppeswelle"

Church Guide suggests a date about 1300.

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By Estey Organ Company.

"For a century the Estey Organ Company in Brattleboro, Vermont was the largest Organ (music) manufacturer in the United States"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estey_Organ 

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Second World War Roll of Honour.

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"Cll west tower with plinth and quoins"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1309029 

The Church Guide states that "the tower is in part at least built onto earlier Anglo-Saxon walling" 

Note the Culloden Memorial Stone with clock above.

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Thomas Whichcote was an ardent Royalist and supporter of the Act of Settlement.

He had a notable memorial stone placed on the tower with an inscription commemorating the erection of a clock in 1746 in memory of the Duke of Cumberland's "victory over the rebels" at Culloden. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Chad%27s_Church,_Harpswell 

The Church Guide states that the current clock is a replacement of the original but again given by the Whichcotes.

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Window contains fragments of medieval glass salvaged after the original window was blown out in a storm.

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