The Wesleyan Methodists built this chapel on Sutton Road in 1857. A Sunday school was added in matching style a few years later (to the left in the photo).

In the recent past the building has suffered structural problems and it is no longer in use. The local Methodist community now hold services in the village hall.

September 2018

Dismounted plaques now in St Margaret's Church.

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The school was built as a National School in 1840 and enlarged in 1874. It was known as Huttoft CE School by 1914.

The school was transferred to Lindsey County Council as Huttoft Council School c.1922, and became Huttoft County Primary School in 1947.

More recently it became a Grant Maintained School, known as Huttoft Primary (GM) School, and has been known by its present name since September 1999.

September 2018

The subject of Sir John Betjeman's poem "A Lincolnshire Church", St Margaret's, Huttoft, is a greenstone building with thirteenth-century tower and chancel arch, a Decorated arcade and Perpendicular aisles.

The chancel is eighteenth-century though its windows are Victorian.

Betjeman was surprised to find the church open to visitors - no such luck today.

Mark Acton, August 2013

A similar view (taken on a wet autumn day) emphasises the patchy nature of the church's construction. As often eleswhere, the friable greenstone has had to be replaced by limestone, sandstone or brick.

September 2018

Kelly's Directory 1930 reports :-

"The church of St. Margaret is an ancient building of stone, in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, large south porch and a lofty embattled western tower of Early English date.

There are several sepulchral slabs with inscriptions and a font with elaborately carved figures representing the Holy Trinity, the Virgin and Child, the Apostles, St. Paul, St. Mary Magdalene and others:

there are two memorial windows in the south aisle to the Rev. George Bryan M.A. vicar 1833-82, and his wife. In the church is an ancient carved oak chest, of the Decorated period:

the church, with the exception of the tower and south side, was restored in 1869, in 1882, when a new roof was put on by W. Murgatroyd esq. and in 1897:

the exterior of the church was further restored in 1910:

a new oak screen, pulpit and choir stalls were provided and new east and chancel windows were inserted and the bells recast in 1915:

there are 250 sittings:

in 1919 the side chapel was screened off and furnished as a memorial to the men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18:

the churchyard was enlarged in 1895 by voluntary subscriptions, and on the 10th July, 1921, a further addition to it was consecrated by the Bishop of Lincoln; the ancient churchyard cross was restored in 1895, and after being blown down in a gale during 1903, was again restored in 1910.

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White's Directory 1872 has :-

"The Church (St. Margaret), is seated on an eminence, and consists of a nave and side aisles in the Decorated style, a chancel, and a tower of the Early English period, containing three bells, and commanding from its summit extensive views of the country and the ocean.

The church contains an organ, and a very curious, but much mutilated font, having at the four angles the Evangelistic symbols, on its shaft the figures of St. Paul, a mitred abbess, and bishops, and on the bowl those of the apostles, the mother and child, and a representation of the crucifixion, all elaborately carved.

The building was restored in 1869, at an expense of £200, contributed chiefly by the parishioners.

It containts many floor monuments, the oldest of which bears the date 1400, and another is inscribed James and Matilda Goth, 1430"

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Looking east towards the altar and reredos.

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Looking west through the chancel arch towards the screen and nave beyond.

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More detailed view of the reredos.

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"The nave and chancel roofs are of 1882 with painted panels"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360009?section=official-list-entry 

East towards the top in this image. 

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"Cross. C14 with addition of 1895. Ashlar. Square base supports octagonal shaft via stop chamfers, with C19 gabled crucifix"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147238?section=official-list-entry  

Kelly's Directory 1930 records " the ancient churchyard cross was restored in 1895, and after being blown down in a gale during 1903, was again restored in 1910" 

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"Monuments. 2 incised floor slabs to Bartholomew Note, d.1473 and Maud Note"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360009?section=official-list-entry

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The arcades are much later than most of the church exterior, 15th century rather than 13th.

September 2018

Looking west towards the font and C13 tower arch.

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A seat for the clergy dating from the late medieval period. Poppyhead decoration on the arm rests and back; and linenfold on the seat back.

September 2018

A second view of the chair.

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A C16 chest with arabesque decoration supporting a representation of Michelangelo's Pietà.

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This remarkable font has carved figures of the twelve apostles plus the Virgin and the Trinity.

September 2018

"The C15 octagonal font is extremely fine with figures in ogee niches on the stem, the base has at the angle large winged figures, and on the bowl are finely carved figures, with standing out hair in East Anglian fashion. The underside of the bowl is supported by angel corbels"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360009?section=official-list-entry 

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"The tall wooden font cover is C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360009?section=official-list-entry 

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Looking west along the C19 north aisle.

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Looking east towards an altar and pipe organ beyond.

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Altar towards the east end of the north aisle.

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"In the north aisle an early barrel organ"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360009?section=official-list-entry 

Still in working order. 

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C14 chest with 5 panels of geometric tracery under crocketed gables.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360009?section=official-list-entry 

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Pipe organ at the east end of the north aisle.

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A circular window containing 4 mouchettes. Eye-catching stained glass.

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"The gabled C15 south porch has single side lights with ogee tracery, a continuously moulded outer doorway with sprays of foliage on the concave chamfered arch and hood mould with human head stops"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360009?section=official-list-entry 

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A second view of the porch.

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Looking through the inner doorway towards the barrel organ in the north aisle.

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Looking east along the C15 south aisle towards the war memorial chapel which was screened off in 1919.

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Text in the window reads "BLESSED ARE THEY THAT SOW BESIDE ALL WATERS" a quotation from Isaiah 32:20.

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"IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM ROBINSON A NATIVE OF THIS PARISH, WHO DIED AT ALFORD 16TH MARCH 1882, IN HIS 82ND YEAR.

THE DECEASED BY HIS WILL BEQUEATHED £400 TO THE VICAR AND CHURCHWARDENS OF HUTTOFT IN TRUST TO INVEST OF IN THEIR NAMES AND PAY THE INTEREST THEREOF ON THE FIRST MONDAY IN JANUARY ANNUALLY FOR EVER EQUALLY AMONGST THE FOUR MOST DESERVING LABOURING MEN RESIDING IN THIS PARISH IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR RELIGIOUS CREED. EACH NOT BEING OWNER OR OCCUPIER OF MORE THAN ONE ACRE OF LAND WHO SHALL HAVE BROUGHT UP THE LARGEST FAMILY WITHOUT PAROCHIAL RELIEF, LESS DUTY"

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"IN LOVING MEMORY OF PRIVATE FRANK EDWARD ROBINSON 2ND LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. REPORTED MISSING AT LE TRANSLOY, FRANCE. 23RD OCTOBER 1916. LATER REPORTED KILLED ON THAT DATE AGED 33 YEARS "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS""

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Kelly's Directory 1930 reports "in 1919 the side chapel was screened off and furnished as a memorial to the men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18"

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Plaque on the screen of the War Memorial Chapel at the east end of the south aisle.

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Inscription on the screen of the War Memorial Chapel at the east end of the south aisle.

"In Memoriam R.I.P ... WHO WERE VICTIMS OF THE GREAT WAR. 1914-1918"

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Chapel at the west end of the south aisle.

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Interior of the west chapel.

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"TO THE GLORY OF GOD IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE REVD GEORGE BRYAN MA 50 YEARS VICAR OF THIS PARISH WHO DIED 16TH FEBRUARY 1889 AGED 88 YEARS ALSO OF LUCY BRYAN HIS WIDOW WHO DIED 10TH MARCH 1890 AGED 84 YERS"

Kelly's Directory 1930 records "there are two memorial windows in the south aisle to the Rev. George Bryan M.A. vicar 1833-82, and his wife"

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"The C13 4 stage tower in greenstone and limestone rubble has 2 string courses and battlemented parapet. It was raised in C14"

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"To the third stage on all sides are tall C13 pointed 2 light windows with moulded surrounds, dogtooth moulding to the wide central mullion, pointed heads to the lights and vesica"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360009?section=official-list-entry 

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This mill was built in 1844 with five storeys and four sails.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The mill was severly damaged in a gale in 1945 and afterwards, for several years, an engine was employed.

Location of mill: TF 514 767

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002