The school was opened as a Free School in 1854 and was supported by Christ's Hospital. It has been a County School since the late 1940s.

In 1999 it was re-named Bucknall Rural Villages School to reflect its wide catchment area, but it has recently reverted to the simpler name of Bucknall Primary School.

July 2017

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of St. Margaret is a building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, with conical roof and four pinnacles, and containing an ancient bell:

the tower was restored in 1912:

the south aisle was formerly a chapel or chantry, and still retains its piscina:

the church was restored in 1884 at a cost of £1,326, and has 120 sittings.

The register dates from about 1708.

The living is a rectory, net yearly value £258, with 38 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Mrs. Henry Benson-Brown, and held since 1917 by the Rev. Charles Henry Gibbons"

DB 19 May 2018

"Parish church. C13, c.1300, C14, C16, 1884 restoration by James Fowler"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359927 

Pevsner comments "Of greenstone, the external features almost entirely of James Fowler's restoration of 1884. His is the timber s porch"

DB 19 May 2018

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"The Church (St. Margaret) is an ancient structure, consisting of a nave with aisles, a chancel, and a tower; and is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £9. 11s. 10d., in the patronage of Lord Monson, and incumbency of the Rev. John Fendall, M.A.

The glebe is 40 acres, and the tithes have been commuted for a yearly rent-charge of £330.

The Rectory House is a neat residence" 

DB 19 May 2018

Gargoyle projecting from beneath the tower battlements.

The parish website states :-

"The Western tower, restored in 1912, is embattled with four pinnacles and houses a mediaeval bell. There are two original gargoyles and two of later origin"

http://lincoln.ourchurchweb.org.uk/woodhallspa/bucknall/page1/ 

DB 19 May 2018

Small but stylish boot scraper to the right of the porch entrance.

August 2018

"Fittings are all C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359927 

DB 31 August 2019

A new plaque commemorating Bucknall Airfield temporarily laid in the sanctuary.

http://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/airfield-finder/bucknall/ 

DB 31 August 2019

"C14 octagonal font with alternating blank arches on the sides and a scalloped octagonal pedestal"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359927 

DB 31 August 2019

Looking east towards the chancel. 

Pevsner states that :-

"arcades of c. 1300. Both are of four bays and both have low double-chamfered arches.

Quatrefoil piers on the n side with deep continuous hollows between the foils, octagonal piers on the s"

No chancel arch. 

DB 31 August 2019

"The C17 pulpit has been almost totally reconstructed in C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359927 

Pevsner comments "pulpit. A fine piece, given in 1646 (price £100)"

DB 31 August 2019

Pevsner states that "Both aisles are still as narrow as they were when built. Both have their original w lancets, the n side also an e lancet"

DB 31 August 2019

By William Andrews, City Organ Works, Crampton Street, Bradford.

DB 31 August 2019

First and Second World Wars.

DB 31 August 2019

First World War.

DB 31 August 2019

A depiction of Saint Margaret in the stained glass behind the altar.

DB 31 August 2019

Benefaction boards displayed in the tower.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "The charities amount to £5 3s. yearly"

DB 31 August 2019

First World War.

DB 31 August 2019