Kelley's Directory of Lincolnshire 1876 lists the Blue Bell whose landlord was John Henry Hopkins.

https://www.bluebellbelchford.co.uk 

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Belchford lies just to the east of the A153, some 4 miles north of Horncastle. Its population stood at 255 in 2011.

Undated postcard by Raphael Tuck 

Now demolished, Belchford Rectory was built in 1804 with a later addition to the left.

Undated postcard by Raphael Tuck 

Former school now a private house.

"The school was built in 1873 as Belchford Board School by the Belchford School Board, formed in 1871.

It became a Council School in 1903 and a County School in c.1947.

It was a primary school by the 1960s.

The school was closed on 18 December 1981, with the children transferred to schools in Horncastle and Tetford. 

The Belchford School Board Evening Continuation School was administered by the Belchford School Board and held in the premises of the Belchford Board School.

It opened on 12 October 1897 and was discontinued by December 1898 because of non-attendance"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/BELCHFORD-COUNTY-PRIMARY-SCHOOL/886082.record?pt=S 

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Main Road and Fulletby Road junction.

Reported in the Horncastle News that :- 

"Children from St. Lawrence School, Belchford, built the Cairn in 2009 out of flint and stone found in fields around the village.

Inside the Cairn is a time capsule including the names of the children who helped build it and a piece of iron work"

https://www.horncastlenews.co.uk/news/crime/police-appeal-after-cairn-vandalised-1-4303879 

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Development site opposite the Blue Bell

Remains of former smithy.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 and also the 1919 edition lists George Howard as the village blacksmith.

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The chancel of St Peter and St Paul was rebuilt in 1859.  In 1909, the nave was rebuilt and the unsafe tower was taken down - the stone being used to build a vestry!

The interior has an ornate 19th century altar with reredos.

September 2006

"Parish church. 1781, chancel mostly rebuilt 1859-60, nave mostly rebuilt and tower reduced [to create the western porch] in 1909"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359659 

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Bell from former church tower.

"Bell dated 1683"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359659 

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"Ornate C19 altar and reredos with painted panels depicting Virgin and child and apostles"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359659 

Church Guide Notes state that the altar was given to the church in 1900 by its then Rector Rev. Richard Hippisley Domenichetti.  

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Stained glass in east window.

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"C19 roofs, that in chancel with painted decoration"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359659 

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"C15 octagonal font with panel tracery on bowl and pedestal"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359659 

Church Guide states that the font came from Saint Mary's Church, Horncastle when that church was restored in 1861. 

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View looking east towards the chancel.

War memorial beneath flag on right. 

C19 chancel arch.

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View looking west.

C20 chairs.

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Nave altar beside the chancel arch. 

Church Guide Notes state that this was previously the main altar but was moved here in 1900 when the present main altar was installed.

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Organ by

"John Nicholson, Organ Builder, Palace Yard, Worcester" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholson_%26_Co_Ltd 

http://www.nicholsonorgans.co.uk/ 

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This illustration, though recently painted, shows the church before the tower was largely dismantled.  Hopes to rebuild the structure were never realised and the lower portion of the tower remains as a western porch.

Jean Howard, March 2021

"C19 pulpit of 2 panelled sides, one containing relief of Magi with Virgin and child"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359659 

Church Guide states that the pulpit came from the private chapel of Lord Brougham who was a relative of the then Rector Rev. Richard Hippisley Domenichetti. 

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First World War memorial.

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Second World War memorial.

HMS Tigris was a T-class submarine :-

"Tigris left Malta on 18 February 1943 to patrol off Naples.

She was last sighted at 0730 on 24 February, 39 miles (63 km) from Capri.

On the morning of 27 February, the German submarine chaser Uj-2210 , escorting a convoy six miles southeast of Capri, made contact with a submarine and carried out three depth charge attacks, the third attack brought oil to the surface and the contact was noted to be stationary.

A fourth attack of fifteen depth charges brought a huge bubble of air up.

On 6 March, Tigris was ordered to Algiers but there was no reply to this signal.

She failed to return to Algiers on 10 March 1943 and was declared overdue on that date"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Tigris_(N63) 

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Circular bench celebrating "Belchford Ahead" community group.

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Hunting scene is a reference to The South Wold Hunt founded 1822. The foxhounds' kennels are on the western side of the village close to the A153.  https://www.southwoldhunt.co.uk 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1876 mentions the South Wold Subscription Hounds - Crowder, huntsman; Edward Bartlett, head whipper-in.

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Former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in Chapel Lane, now a private house, was last used for worship in 1991.

Inscription states the chapel was erected in 1871; the opening service was held on 6 June 1872.

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The date stone for the Wesleyan chapel is unusually ornate and remains as a decorative feature on the western porch along with the iron finial on the ridge. 

Jean Howard, March 2021

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Horncastle & Bardney Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Anthony EG Whiting September 1997 states :-

"A house was registered for worship in 1780 and a chapel erected in Chapel Lane in 1811.

It was replaced on the same site by a larger chapel opened on the 6.6.1872.

The chapel became unsafe some time before 1984 and worship continued first using the school room and then, from 1991, in the village hall.

Fortnightly services still continue in the village hall with a membership of 9.

The chapel is now standing disused but planning permission has been obtained for its conversion into a Wolds Retreat Centre"

Geoff Swain Collection 12 June 1994

Another view from 1994 when the chapel was standing disused.

Geoff Swain Collection 12 June 1994