"Brigg Congregational Church ... Ornate Gothic, rendered. Parapet and cornice. Centre gable with foliated finial, roundel and date"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346766?section=official-list-entry 

Now Lovelle Estate Agency.

DB 10 December 2023

Brigg Heritage Centre is situated on the first floor of The Angel, a former 17th Century coaching inn"

https://www.visitnorthlincolnshire.com/item/brigg-heritage-centre/

White's Directory 1856 has "Angel Inn, Thos. Dawson" and in 1872 "Angel Hotel, J ames B. Kirkbam, 26 Market place". 

Listed in Kelly's Directory 1930 "Angel, Angel Hotel Co. Ltd. (E. A. Gresham, mngr.), Market pl" 

DB 10 December 2023

The Angel Hotel stands on the south side of the Market Place.

The enclosed courtyard to the east of the hotel was once the passage giving access to stables in the yard at the rear.

postcard by Kinsway, 1933

This mill, with five floors and four sails, is the only survivor of a group of six in the town.

It was built in the 1830s by James Hart of Brigg.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph 1911

Bell's Mill was worked by wind until 1920 and later by steam engine. The driving wheel can still be seen on the side of the tower (see left in this photograph).

It is Grade II listed.

Location of mill: SE 996 065

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

An early view along Bigby Street, looking east towards the parish church and Methodist Church.

postcard in Wrench Series published by Jackson & Sons of Brigg, undated

White's Directory 1856 has "Black Bull, John Gibson" and in 1872 "Black Bull, Mrs H. Gibson, 3 Wrawby street".

Listed in Kelly's Directory 1885 "Gibson Harriet (Mrs.), Black Bull P.H. 3 Wrawby street" and in 1919 "Jeffrey Blanche (Mrs.), Black Bull P.H. Wrawby street".

DB 16 December 2018

Listed in Kelly's Directory 1896 "Britannia inn, Robert Hill, Wrawby street, Brigg" and in 1930 "Britannia inn, J. Percy Goates, Wrawby st. Brigg"

DB 10 December 2023

Cadney Road is the extension of Elwes Street running south from the centre of the town along the east bank of the Old River Ancholme.

In the distance is the bridge carrying the MSLR line of 1848/49 running from Sheffield to Cleethorpes. Brigg station is a short distance to the east (left).

postcard by Valentine, 1910

Marked as "County Court" on the OS 25 inch map published 1907.

White's Directory 1856 reports :-

"BRIGG COUNTY COURT, for the 31 parishes, &c., noticed above, is held monthly, at the Police Station. J. G. S. Smith, Esq., is the judge; John Hett, Esq., clerk; and Jonathan Spring, bailiff. The POLICE STATION in Wrawby street, was built in 1845, at the cost of about £2000. It has a house for the superintending constable, cells for prisoners, and accommodation for the County Court and petty sessions. The latter are held here every alternate Tuesday, and J. Hett, Esq., is clerk to the magistrates. Brigg Association for the Prosecution of Felons has about 60 members, and Mr. Frederick Garfit, is the clerk"

Kelly's Directory 1930 has :-

"Brigg & Scunthorpe County Court, Police Station, Wrawby street & Police Station, Scunthorpe; office, Chapel street, Scunthorpe; His Honor Thomas Witheridge Langman, judge; Henry M. Hett, registrar & high bailiff.

The monthly court is held alternately with Scunthorpe. The following parishes & places are within its jurisdiction :- Appleby, Barnetby-le-Wold, Bottesford, Brumby, Broughton, Burringham, Burton-upon-Stather, Butterwick East, Cadney-cum-Howsham, Castlethorpe, Cleatham, Croxton, Elsham, Flixborough, Gokewell, Glanford Brigg, Gunhouse, Hibaldstow, Holme, Kirmington, Kirton-in-Lindsey, Manby, Manton, Melton Ross, Messingham, Newstead, Normanby, Ravensthorpe, Redbourne, Santon (High & Low), Scawby-cum-Sturton, Scunthorpe & Frodingham, Thealby, Twigmoor, Worlaby, Wrawby, Yaddlethorpe"

DB 10 December 2023

The only public house in Britain to be called "Dying Gladiator".

"Mid C18"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083157 

Listed in White's Directory 1856 "Gladiator, Hy. and Thos. Clark" and in 1872 "Gladiator, Henry & Thomas Clarke, 49 Bigby street".

DB 16 December 2018

"Plain attached columns to doorway with realistic sculpture of dying gladiator on entablature"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083157 

DB 16 December 2018

"The Exchange Club ... Mid C18 and later. Yellow and red brick. The 2 houses form a slightly irregular unit joining in a symmetrical gable end projecting to the roadway with a large stepped gable"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083154?section=official-list-entry 

Once a lawyers house, in 1862 a girls school, after 1910 a social club "The Exchange" and now a hotel. 

https://www.theexchangebrigg.co.uk/about 

Kelly's Directory 1930 has "The Corn Exchange was erected in 1850 by a joint stock company, but is now used as a cinema. The Exchange Club, established 1866, has premises in Bigby street. There is a news and reading room"

DB 10 December 2023

Postcard view of Market Place in 1923.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "The weekly store stock and general market is held on Thursdays, and is very well attended; a fat stock market is held fortnightly on Tuesday, and a fair on the 5th of August for cattle and general commodities; there is also a hiring for servants on the Friday before Old May-day"

Undated view of Brigg market.

Postcard by Harrison Photo, Lincoln.

"The old town hall - now known as the Buttercross - was built in 1817"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigg 

"Small building at road junction of 2 storeys in yellow brick and slate roof. Circa 1817"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083130 

DB 16 December 2018 

Standing near the old town hall known as the Buttercross.

"PRESENTED BY THE ROTARY CLUB OF BRIGG TO CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL IN 2005"

Pitting corrosion evident. 

Bandstand visible in the background. 

DB 16 December 2018

Former NatWest bank branch which closed 13th June 2018.

Ghost sign states "National Provincial Bank Established 1833"

The K6 type telephone kiosk visible in front of the bank is a listed structure.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346768 

DB 16 December 2018 

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Brigg Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Mervyn White September 1997 (Revised July 1998) states :-

"A new all purpose church at the junction of Barnard Avenue and Wesley Road was erected in 1962/3.

The foundation stone for an extension was laid on the 13.4.1963 and it was opened on the 8.12.1963.

A further extension was opened on the 4.12.1993.

The church is still in use with a membership of 66" 

Geoff Swain Collection 18 October 1993

Post Office which opened in the 1930s.

https://nigelfishersbriggblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/brigg-heritage-centre-opens-new.html 

DB 10 December 2023

The tall tower of St John's rises above the surrounding buildings at the church's south-east corner.

February 2015

At first glance the church appears to be built in yellow-grey brick but the material is in fact small stone blocks of irregular length laid in regular narrow courses.

February 2015

St John's is Early English in style and has pairs of lancet windows all along the high nave.

Designed by the Lincoln architect W A Nicholson and built in 1841-3.

February 2015

View of the church from the north showing the entrance from the High Street.

July 2016

Church viewed from Bigby Street, to the east, church hall in the foreground.

DB 10 December 2023

This view looking east along Bigby Street shows the parish church of St John Evangelist with the post-war church hall in front.

Nearer the camera is the imposing facade of the Methodist Church of 1865. It was built for the Wesleyan Reform Union*, closed for worship in 1962 and demolished in 1966.

* The Wesleyan Reform Union, one of several splinter groups in Methodism, was formed in 1859. Churches were independent and self-governing; they did not join in unions of other branches of the Methodist Church. However, the Brigg WRU chapel became a member of the United Methodist connexion at some date in the second half of the 19th century.

Frith postcard, undated

Church was "Built 1841-3 by W A Nicholson, some alterations in 1883 by W White"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1204035 

DB 16 December 2018

"There is one bay of sexpartite vaulting, probably plaster, in the chancel"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1204035 

DB 15 December 2019 

Detail of the reredos behind the altar.

DB 15 December 2019

Three main figures are Saint David left, Christ in Glory center, and Saint John the Evangelist right holding St John's Church.

Below are scenes of Brigg.

DB 16 December 2018

C19 Font.

DB 15 December 2019

Looking east towards the chancel.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of St. John the Evangelist, situated in the centre of the town, and rebuilt in 1842-3 on the site of the earlier church, at an expense of about £2,700, is a building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, north and south porches and an eastern tower, with pinnacles, containing 6 bells:

the bells were retuned and hung in a new frame in 1912:

the stained west window was erected in 1894 as a memorial to the late Rev. Philip Henry Brierly M.A. vicar 1879-93:

the sedilia were presented in 1893 by Albert Cressey esq.:

part of the outside stone work was restored in 1893 at a cost of £200, and the remainder in 1911 at a cost of £142, and the south porch restored in 1896:

there are 450 sittings"

DB 16 December 2018

The west window is set very high to accommodate neighbouring buildings.

"The arcades have octagonal piers and double chamfered arches"

"Very plain C19 nave benches"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1204035 

DB 16 December 2018

The makers plate states :-

"Bevington & Son

London 1868"

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

DB 16 December 2018

C19 pulpit.

Church was "refurnished in 1883 by the noted Victorian church architect William White"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1204035 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_White_(architect) 

DB 16 December 2018

"Memorial dedicated by the Dean of Lincoln February 21st 1931"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Brigg-St-John-Triptych/1579281.record?pt=S

DB 16 December 2018

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"the stained west window was erected in 1894 as a memorial to the late Rev. Philip Henry Brierly M.A. vicar 1879-93"

DB 16 December 2018

Modern stained glass in the south aisle depicting Edward King left and Saint Hugh right.

Both former Bishops of Lincoln 

DB 16 December 2018

The sugar beet factory at Brigg, one of 18 run by the British Sugar Corporation, opened in 1928 and closed in 1991.

It was sited close to the New River Ancholme and the Sheffield-Cleethorpes railway about a mile south-west of the town.

A gas-powered station, now operated by Centrica, was built on an adjacent site in 1993.

postcard by Tuck, undated

"The war memorial is located on Monument Roundabout at the junction of Wrawby Street, Bigby Road and Wrawby Road. It is made of Portland Stone and is in the form of an eternal flame at the top of a column flanked by two couchant lions on pedestals.

The memorial has a two-stepped base in the shape of a rectangle with a circle in the centre. Above this is the column base with rounded buttress plinths to the front and rear. On either side, rectangular pedestals are surmounted by the carved lions. On each face of the pedestals are grey granite panels inscribed with gilt lettering.

The column, square on plan and 7.3m tall, rises from the base. At the top of the column is an elaborately carved urn decorated with festoons, and from which issues the eternal flame"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1435404?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 December 2023

"The rounded buttress plinths are inscribed in incised lettering. On the front (west) side the inscription reads TO THE/ GLORIOUS MEMORY/ OF THE/ MEN OF BRIGG/ WHO DIED FOR/ FREEDOM AND HONOUR/ IN THE GREAT/ WAR/ 1914-1918/ 1939-1945. To the rear the inscription reads THIS MEMORIAL/ WAS ERECTED AND PRESENTED TO/ THE TOWN OF BRIGG/ BY/ COUNCILLOR HENRY STAMP, JP., C.C./ CHAIRMAN OF THE URBAN COUNCIL/ 1915-1919/ UNVEILED BY MRS STAMP/ SUNDAY JUNE 15TH 1919. Above each inscription the cornice is decorated with a cartouche displaying the town badge.

The granite panels on the western side of the memorial are inscribed with the names of the fallen under the words ROLL OF HONOUR/ ROYAL NAVY/ (NAMES)/ ARMY (NAMES) and ROLL OF HONOUR/ ARMY (NAMES). On the eastern side of the memorial the southern panel records names, principally from the Second World War, under the inscription ROLL OF HONOUR (NAMES), whilst that on the northern side has the inscription "OH VALIANT HEARTS, WHO TO YOUR GLORY CAME/ THROUGH DUST OF CONFLICT AND THROUGH BATTLE FLAME,/ TRANQUIL YOU LIE, YOUR KNIGHTLY VIRTUE PROVED,/ YOUR MEMORY HALLOWED IN THE LAND YOU LOVED”"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1435404?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 December 2023

"Warehouse occupied by the Farmer's Co Ltd ... Large warehouse building, probably of late C18"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346746?section=official-list-entry 

Located on Market Place next to the old River Ancholme. 

DB 10 December 2023

White's Directory 1856 has " White Hart, .A. M. & E. Sergeant and Co." and in 1872 "White Hart, George Carr, Bridge st".

Listed in Kelly's Directory 1930 "White Hart inn, Jas. Raynham, Bridge st. Brigg"

Now a venue for hire "A unique luxury waterfront celebration venue, The White Hart Pub has been restored and converted into an exclusive self-catering venue for you to hire"

https://www.briggwhitehart.co.uk/ 

"White Hart Public House ... Mid C18. 2 storeys in painted roughcast with pantile roof with stone coped gable ends and 2 brick stacks"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346780?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 December 2023

Postcard view of Wrawby Street in 1923 - appear to be looking east with the Black Bull Hotel on the left.

Part of an early C18 range of 3 storeys.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346778?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 December 2023