The Brocklesby hounds are the oldest private pack of foxhounds in the country. The Hunt dates from around 1700 with complete records of hound breeding from 1746.

The location for this meet is Caistor Market Place.

undated postcard

The National School (1824) in Church Street was replaced in 1859 by new buildings on South Dale.

The Church of England School of 1859 became part of a joint Methodist/CE Controlled primary school in 1967, when a much larger school building was provided close by. It is now a private dwelling.  

(Does the decorative use of brick on this chimney in the form of the Star of David have any significance?)

The 1859 memorial stone is a tribute to James Green Dixon, a corn, coal and seed merchant in the town and member of the well-to-do landowning Dixon family of Holton le Moor.

Ken Redmore, 2010

The 1859 memorial stone is a tribute to James Green Dixon, a corn, coal and seed merchant in the town and member of the well-to-do landowning Dixon family of Holton le Moor.

Ken Redmore, 2010

Caistor Canal was intended to link the town to the New River Ancholme seven miles to the west.

Work commenced in 1795 and proceded through South Kelsey to Moortown where the canal terminated, three miles short of Caistor.

Coal and grain merchants set up business in Moortown and a large brick warehouse, now converted into a dwelling, can still be seen.

There were six locks on the canal, five of which survive to support fixed sluices in a drainage channel.

The canal, which is entirely in South Kelsey parish, closed as a navigation in about 1880.

Details of the locks and other structures are found here.

The foundation stone of Pelham's Pillar was laid in 1840. The structure was completed in 1849.

It was built to commemorate the planting of 12.5 million trees by Charles Anderson Pelham, 1st Lord Yarborough.

The total cost was £2,395. Edward James Willson was paid 100 guineas for the design.

Mark Acton, 2017

W.D. Keyworth was paid £145 for carving the two lions which guard the entrance to Pelham's Pillar.

Mark Acton, 2017

Evidently fear of vandalism is nothing new as shown by this notice inside the entrance to Pelham's Pillar.

Mark Acton, 2017

A view from the top of Pelham's Pillar.

Mark Acton, 2017

This odd shaped stone once stood in a field near Fonaby Top Farm, Caistor (about 1 mile north of the town).

The tale goes as follows: One day, St Paulinus was riding by, when he spied a farmer sowing corn, and requested grain from the nearby sack to feed his ass. The grudging farmer replied  "That's not a sack - it's a stone".  "Then stone it shall be" said the saint.  And so it was.

The stone is said to be broken up now, and lying under a nearby field hedge.

See: www.themodernantiquarian.com

Undated postcard

The early Grammar School building dates from 1631. It is built of ironstone and was restored in 1930.

June 2010

"House, now also dental surgery. Early C19, brick with stucco dressings"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359830?section=official-list-entry 

No. 24 High Street. 

DB 11 May 2024 

Home Guard Cottage with a blue plaque placed by the "Caistor Society".

DB 11 May 2024 

This building, now the library of Caistor Grammar School, was originally a Congregational Church erected in 1842.

Distinctive features include yellow brick, Doric pilasters and tapered window and door surrounds.

The town's non-conformist graveyard lies behind.

Ken Redmore, 2010

The north-west corner of the Market Place in 1970.

drawing by Tom Brooker

Former Police Station "POLICE 1855". Near the corner of High Street and Chapel Street.

Kelly's Directory 1930 notes " County Police Station, Chapel street. The whole of the petty sessional division is under the charge of the police supt. of Brigg"

DB 11 May 2024 

This Primitive Methodist chapel was opened in 1868 and a Sunday School added two years later.

The last service was held in 1966 and it was then acquired by the County Council and used as a youth club.

As Caistor Heritage Centre it now houses the town's library and a popular café.

Drawing by Rex Russell (1916-2104)

4th century wall located at the edge of Caistor churchyard. Part of the Roman town's south wall.

DB 23 January 2018 

An ancient church, St Peter and St Paul has traces of 11th century work and a largely 12th century tower.

The nave has lofty 13th century arcades and a Perpendicular clerestory.

Rebuilt in 1848, the chancel owes its Victorian stained glass and fittings to later restoration by Butterfield.

June 2008

View of St Peter and St Paul at Caistor from the north-east approach path.

June 2008

Kelly's Directory 1930 reports :-

"The church of SS. Peter and Paul, which stands within the area of an ancient fortress, is a fine building of stone of the Norman, Early English and Decorated periods, consisting of nave, transepts and chancel, north porch and a western tower of three stages, the lower portion being Norman, the middle stage Early English and the upper 14th century Decorated : it has now only four pinnacles, other four having been blown down by a storm in 1663: the belfry storey contains a clock and 6 bells, rehung and one recast in 1904: on the tower is a sundial, dated 1835, and in the lower part of the tower are remains of Saxon and Norman work; its arch, opening into the nave, is of a Saxon type, and within is an equally early recess:

the north transept forms the lady chapel or "Hundon" chapel; the south transept, connected with the Maddison family, is now the organ chamber and priests' vestry :

the nave arcades are Early English and the windows of the south aisle Decorated; all the windows are stained :

under a recessed arch in the wall of the north aisle is a fine monument with effigy of Sir William de Hundon, of Hundon and Brocklesby (temp. Henry III. or Edward I.) ; the figure is that of a knight in chain mail, covered with a cyclas or long surcoat, with sword and shield, and at his feet a dog; the effigy of a lady in a wimple and hands upraised in prayer, his wife, was removed at the restoration of the church to the south chapel, but has since been replaced in the Hundon chapel; within this same chapel is a third monument (temp. Edward III.), that of Sir John de Hundon; this consists of a richly-carved sepulchral recess, inclosing a knightly effigy of stone, in plate armour, with mutilated figures of angels at the head :

in the south transept is a marble monument to Sir Edward Maddison, aged 100, 1553, with his effigy in full armour, kneeling before a lectern; the figure is supported on a substructure of white marble, and overhead is a canopy resting on columns: here also is a monument to Catherine (Bosvile), wife of Edward Maddison, of Fonaby, grandson of the preceding; she died in 1591 and her husband in 1619:

the church, with the exception of the tower, was restored in 1862, under the direction of the late Mr. W. Butterfield F.S.A. architect, when the roofs were reconstructed, new windows inserted and the interior reseated; the north porch was wholly rebuilt, the ancient doorways being retained :

a reredos of stone and marble, designed by Mr. Butterfield, was erected in 1873, partly at the cost of the late Mrs. Skipworth, formerly lady of the manor:

in 1907 the interior was panelled to a height of about 6 feet, the design being taken from ancient woodwork remaining in the church:

a new oak lectern was placed in the church in 1912 in memory of the 25 years' vicarate of the Rev. W. F. W. Westbrooke :

the rood-beam, designed by Mr. W. Bond, architect, was presented by the Westbrooke family:

in 1920 the sacrarium was handsomely panelled in oak as a memorial to the men of Caistor who fell in the Great War, the names of whom appear on one of the panels:

there are 500 sittings.

By Order in Council, gazetted May 21, 1909, the churchyard was closed, except for family vaults and graves existing"

DB 8 July 2024

White's Directory 1872 has :-

"The Church (St. Peter and St. Paul) is an ancient edifice of early English architecture, with some remains of Norman work in the lower stage of the tower.

It is of the age of Henry III., and stands in the area of the ancient fortress, and consists of a nave with aisles, a south transept, and a chancel, with a tower at the west end, containing six bells and a clock.

Under an arch in the Hundon chapel, lies the effigy of Sir John de Hundon, who died about 1350. In the north wall is the cross-legged figure of Sir William de Hundon, of the time of Edward I., and opposite was the recumbent effigy of a female of the same date, lately removed to the south transept, where there is a kneeling figure of Sir Edward Maddison, Kt., who died in 1553.

On the chancel floor are two brasses of the Ousteby and Carrington families.

The church, with the exception of the tower, was restored in 1863, at an expense of about £1200. It contains four beautiful stained glass windows, in memory of members of the Kennington, Porter, Johnson and Crampton families.

Until it was discontinued in 1847, a singular ceremony took place annually in this church, by the performance of which certain lands in the parish of Broughton, near Brigg, were held. On Palm Sunday, a person from Broughton brought a large whip, called a gad whip, the stock of which was made of wood, tapered towards the top. He came to the north porch about the commencement of the first lesson, and cracked his whip at the door three times; after which, with much ceremony, he wrapped the thong round the stock of the whip, and bound the whole together with whipcord, tying up with it some twigs of mountain ash ; he then tied to the top of the whip-stock a small leathern purse, containing two shillings (originally 24 silver pennies), and took the whole upon his shoulder into the Hundon choir, or chapel, where he stood in front of the reading desk until the commencement of the second lesson; he then waved the purse over the head of the clergyman, knelt down upon a cushion, and continued in that posture, with the purse suspended over the clergyman's head, till the end of the lesson, when he retired into the choir. After the service was concluded, he carried the whip and purse to the manor house of Hundon, where they were left.

The vicarage of Caistor, with the curacies of Holton-le-Moor and Clixby annexed to it, are valued in K.B. at £7. 6s. 8d., and now at £320, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and incumbency of the Rev. Hippisley Maclean, B.A., who is also prebendary of Lincoln, rural dean and surrogate.The Rev. J. H. T. M. de Mowbray, M.A., is curate.

At the enclosure of the commons, the tithes of Caistor were commuted for allotments of land, viz., 91 acres to the rectory and 80 acres to the vicarage; but the hamlets of Audleby, Fonaby and Hundon, pay a yearly modus amounting to £52. 6s. 10½d. per annum for the rectorial, and £180 for the vicarial tithes"

DB 8 July 2024

Looking east towards the sanctuary.

"Chancel rebuilt 1848"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063382?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 July 2024

"The chancel arch is C13, engaged octagonal responds with single chamfers. The capitals have simple leaf forms in the necking, evidently early in the C13 to match the water retaining bases. Double chamfered arch over"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063382?section=official-list-entry  

DB 8 July 2024

A closer view of the altar and sanctuary.

No sign of the reredos mentioned in Kelly's Directory 1930 "a reredos of stone and marble, designed by Mr. Butterfield, was erected in 1873, partly at the cost of the late Mrs. Skipworth, formerly lady of the manor".

DB 8 July 2024

The East window is in memory of the Kenningtons.

The Church Guide relates :- 

"They originated in Caistor but moved to Edinburgh where Charles established a famous departmental store, "Kennington and Jenners". Jenners is still in business today on Princes Street, in Edinburgh."

DB 8 July 2024

"TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM MOUNSEY, M.A, RECTOR OF THORESWAY, AND VICAR OF STIXWOLD, WHO DIED NOV. 9TH. MDCCCXXX, AGED LXXI.

AND OF HIS SISTER, MILDREDA MOUNSEY, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE REV: JOHN MOUNSEY, WHO DIED OCT. 3RD, MDCCCXVI, IN THE 58TH. YEAR OF HER AGE.

An unassuming Integrity gained Him the esteem of many Friends; and a Proneness to relieve, the respect of the indigent. 

She was distinguished, by a numerous and most respectable acquaintance, for Prudence, Benevolence, and Piety."

DB 8 July 2024

"Roofs painted 1894"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063382?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 July 2024

Looking east towards the altar.

DB 8 July 2024

"IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE CAISTOR MEN WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR UPON WHOSE SOULS MAY GOD HAVE MERCY".

Kelly's Directory 1930 reports "in 1920 the sacrarium was handsomely panelled in oak as a memorial to the men of Caistor who fell in the Great War, the names of whom appear on one of the panels"

DB 8 July 2024

Lancet window on the south side of the altar. 

"In the reverence of God, and in memory of Charlotte, wife of the Revd Canon Maclean, who was born July 16th 1811, and died at St Albans, October 19th 1895, aged 84 years, this window is dedicated, Requiescat in pace."

DB 8 July 2024

Lancet window on the north side of the altar.  

"In the reverence of God, and in loving memory of the Revd Canon Hippisley Maclean, sometime Vicar of Caistor, Holton and Clixby A.D. 1844 to 1886, who died at St Albans, March 22nd 1895, aged 87 years, this window is dedicated. Requiescat in pace."

DB 8 July 2024

Lady Chapel viewed from the chancel.

DB 8 July 2024

Looking east towards the altar.

DB 8 July 2024

A closer view of the altar and reredos.

DB 8 July 2024

Looking west from the Lady Chapel and back into the north aisle.

DB 8 July 2024

Inscriptions in the glass read :-

"HANNAH DENISON PORTER 1844 AGED 17" &

"HANNAH PORTER 1862 AGED 69"

DB 8 July 2024

The notice reads "Sir John de Hundon, High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1343, Died in the Reign of Edward the Third (1327-1377)"

DB 8 July 2024

On the floor of the chapel is the figure of a lady in a wimple with a lion at her feet. She is Philippa, wife of Sir John Hundon

DB 8 July 2024

"Sacred to the Memory of JOHN SWAN, who died May the 25th: 1804, in the 73rd: Year of his age. Also MARY, his Wife who departed this Life Febry: 23rd: 1809, Aged 77 Years."

DB 8 July 2024

"IN MEMORY OF ANNIE THE WIFE OF W JOHNSON AND DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM HANNATH OF CAISTOR ... "

DB 8 July 2024

A plaque in the north aisle. 

"THE ELECTRIC LIGHTING OF THIS CHURCH WAS THE GIFT IN 1935 OF THE CAISTOR LADIES CHURCH NEEDLEWORK SOCIETY, WHOSE MEMBERS HAVE SINCE 1887 LOYALLY SUPPORTED THE INTERESTS OF THIS PARISH AND MADE MANY GENEROUS DONATIONS TO BEAUTIFY AND MAINTAIN THE CHURCH. 

H.E.J.COXON.  CHURCHWARDENS

J. GORBUTT. "

DB 8 July 2024

Looking east towards the C13 chancel arch.

DB 8 July 2024

Looking west towards the font and Romanesque tower arch.

DB 8 July 2024

Looking diagonally across the nave towards the pulpit with the north aisle on the left. 

"C13 north and south arcades of 4 bays, the 'ammonite' label stops of the north aisle arches are paralleled in work by Bishop Grossteste at Lincoln (1235-53)"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063382?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 July 2024

Looking north across the nave.

DB 8 July 2024

C19 font?

DB 8 July 2024

Lectern with wooden effigies of Saint Peter & Saint Paul.

A brass plaque reads :- 

"To the glory of God 

A Thank offering to Almighty God for the Twenty Five years ministry of the Reverend W.H.W.Westbrooke, R.D. Vicar at Caistor Holton and Clixby

(1886 to 1911)

Make him to be numbered with Thy Saints 

(From The Work Society)"

DB 8 July 2024

C19 pulpit?

DB 8 July 2024

"Roofs painted 1894"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063382?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 July 2024

Looking east towards the Lady Chapel (once called the Hundon Quire).

DB 8 July 2024

Looking west.

DB 8 July 2024

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF MARY PAULINE DAUGHTER OF THE REV. CANON W.F.W & M.A WESTBROOKE ... 1888 FELL ASLEEP AT CAISTOR VICARAGE"

DB 8 July 2024

The Church Guide states "On the wall of the north aisle is a brass in memory of Godfrey Carrington, vicar of Caistor, who died in 1670. He was buried before the High Altar as was his wife who died in the same year."

DB 8 July 2024

The notice reads "Sir William de Hundon, Fought in the last Crusade, 1270, Died in the Reign of Edward the First (1274-1307)".

DB 8 July 2024

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLOTTE, THE BELOVED WIFE OF BENJAMIN SMITH, SURGEON, OF THIS PLACE; SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF JOSEPH HANNATH, OF SCAMBLESBY IN THIS COUNTY; UNPITYING DEATH SNATCHT HER WHEN IN THE FULL ENJOYMENT OF DOMESTIC BLISS, FROM A NUMEROUS AND INFANTINE FAMILY AT THE EARLY AGE OF 31, ON THE 31ST MARCH 1829."

DB 8 July 2024

"Near this place lie interred the Remains of JOHN HARNEIS SWAN, who departed this Life March the 4th 1832, Aged 58 Years. to whose Memory this Tablet is affectionately erected by his surviving Widow.

Also of MARY, Wife of the above JOHN HARNEIS SWAN. who died March 30th 1846. Aged 76 Years.

Also of THEODOTIA MARY, only Child of the above JOHN HARNEIS and MARY SWAN, who died July the 16th 1820, in her 16th Year."

DB 8 July 2024

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF HILARY  F.L.W.F.W.WESTBROOKE

BORN AT GORRINGHAM VICARAGE 14TH JANY 1881, ELDEST SON OF THE VICAR OF CAISTOR WHO, AFTER SERVING HIS COUNTRY IN THE CAPE MOUNTED RIFLES THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR, 1899-1902, DIED AT YOLA, NORTHERN NIGERIA, ON 18TH OCTR 1907.

MAY HE REST IN PEACE

ERECTED BY HIS PARENTS, FRIENDS AND FELLOW MEMBERS OF THE CAISTOR CRICKET CLUB.

KING'S MEDAL. SOUTH AFRICA. 1902 SOUTH AFRICA, 1901.

QUEEN'S MEDAL WITTEBERGEN. TRANSVAAL. WEPENER. CAPE COLONY."

DB 8 July 2024

"IN MEMORY OF HANNAH CRAMPTON WIFE OF ROBERT CRAMPTON WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1858 AGED 64 YEARS ALSO OF ROBERT THEIR SON WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN 1848 AGED 26 YEARS"

DB 8 July 2024

"To the glory of God Incarnate, and in memory of William Brooks, of Fonaby, who died 20th Dec. 1879, aged 92 years, also of Charlotte his wife who died 5th April 1871, aged 79 years, this window is dedicated"

DB 8 July 2024

"In the reverence of God and in loving memory of William Frederick Westbrook Westbrooke, Priest, Vicar of Caistor with Holton-le-Moor and Clixby 1886-1916, Prebendary of Welton Beckhall in Lincoln Cathedral this window is dedicated by his sister"

DB 8 July 2024

Organ viewed from the chancel.

The maker's plate reads "J.R.Cousans Builder Lincoln, 1885.".

DB 8 July 2024

A plaque reads :- 

"In 1807, this ORGAN the earliest attempt of, MR. JOHN WARD, of THIS TOWN, JOINER, was purchased by the philanthropic WILLIAM DIXON ESQR, and THE REVEREND SAMUEL TURNER, A.M.THE VENERABLE MINISTER of this PARISH who presented it to the PARISHIONERS as a tribute of respect to them, and of veneration for this sacred Edifice.

In 1832 the principal Inhabitants having subscribed towards its repair MR WARD, who had found his genius rewarded in the CITY of YORK, to the honor of his feelings, contributed gratuitously his skilful aid, to the improving and restoring of this his first and highly valued INSTRUMENT.

CASTOR, 21st March 1834."

DB 8 July 2024

Organ chamber viewed from the south aisle.

DB 8 July 2024

"Contemporary porch with Gothic quatrefoils and Tudoresque rectangular windows in the side walls"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063382?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 July 2024

"Contemporary porch with ... an outer arch in C13 style without capitals but with stop chamfers. Stone coped gable rises to a cross fleury"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063382?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 July 2024

"Rood beam erected 1929"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063382?section=official-list-entry 

The Church Guide states "The Rood Beam was designed by Wilfrid Bond of Grantham and installed in the 1920's" 

DB 8 July 2024

Looking west.

DB 8 July 2024

Looking east towards the organ chamber and vestry.

DB 8 July 2024

"The south aisle has a fine though weathered C13 doorway in a slightly advanced entry bay with a sloping solid roof. The doorway has 5 clustered keeled shafts in the reveals which continue over the arch as ribs, the 2 elements being separated by annular capitals with matching narrow abaci. The arch ribs are surmounted by orders of dogtooth, but this only continues in the outer pair of the lower orders"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063382?section=official-list-entry 

June 2008

Gad Whip displayed at the west end of the south aisle. A notice reads :-

"What was it that caused riots in the streets of the small market town of Caistor and led to questions being raised in Parliament about this 'disgraceful public disorder'?

The answer lies in a glass case inside Caistor Parish Church. It is the famous Gad Whip, consisting of a stock, six feet in length and a lash of seven feet one inch.

The whip has a leather purse attached to the stock which would have contained 30 silver coins, reminiscent of the thirty pieces of silver Judas received for his betrayal of Jesus. One of these, a penny of the reign of Edward I, may be seen near the whip.

Attached to the stock are three pieces of wych elm - although there were supposed to be four of different lengths - perhaps representing the four gospels.

The purpose of the whip was connected to a strange Palm Sunday ritual, when rent was paid for land at Raventhorpe, near Broughton. Every year on this day, the tenant of this land, which belonged to the Lord of the Manor of Hundon, had to provide a whip and send it with a man to Caistor Church.

During the reading of the first lesson at Matins, the man cracked the whip three times in the church porch. At the beginning of the reading of the second lesson, the whip was waved three times over the head of the clergyman and held there until the end of the reading when the lash was folded around the stock and the whip deposited in the pew belonging to the Lord of the Manor of Hundon. And all the while the streets were packed with rowdy onlookers - hardly conducive to divine worship!

It is reported in the May 24th 1836 copy of the Hertford Mercury and Reformer that: "A petition by Sir Culling Eardley-Smith of Bedwell Park, Hertfordshire, was put before the House of Lords Temporal and Spiritual, to get the practice in Caistor stopped on the grounds that it was a superstitious practice ... Sir Culling had even applied to the Bishop of Lincoln to get it stopped but he had not done so. Sir Culling wanted the Lords to investigate the Bishop of Lincoln for this scandal." 

Why this ceremony ever began in the first place is a bit vague. The Whip went out of use in 1846 when the land at Broughton changed hands."

DB 8 July 2024

A nearby notice reads :- 

"This is a copy of Sandro Botticelli's famous picture painted in Florence about 1480, of which the original is to be found in the Ufizi Gallery ..

The painting has been presented to the Diocese by an anonymous donor, to be hung in a parish church, and allowed to hang here by the generous permission of the Right Reverend Maurice H. Harland, D.D.,Bishop of Lincoln.

The copy was executed about 1780, or possibly earlier, by an unknown artist"

DB 8 July 2024

A notice reads :-

"The Revd W.F.W. Westbrooke, who came as Vicar of Caistor in 1886, acquired what appears to be a stone, kept under glass in the north aisle. It came into his hands following the death of the Rev. T.W. Mossman in 1886, who was a prominent High Churchman and Vicar of West Torrington, and became a Roman Catholic on his death bed. It is a fragment of a wall built of human bones, stones and cement, of which remains still exist near the modern city of Alahschier, the white city, or city of God in the book of Revelations known as Philadelphia, in West Turkey. The Sultan, Bajazet, called also Ilderim or the Terrible showed his hatred of the Christians of Philadelphia by making this wall of their bones and blood. The stone came to England via a chaplain at Smyrna.

(Information supplied by The Revd. D. Saunders)"

DB 8 July 2024

"In memory of Samuel Turner ... who went to his rest 31st Octbr 1825 also of Mary his wife who went to her rest 13th Decbr 1836"

DB 8 July 2024

"In memory of Anne Moore daughter of Samuel Turner who went to her rest 6th April 1885, also of Geo Anthony Moore husband of the above, Curate of Caistor afterwards many yrs Incumbent of Talke-on-the-Hill, Staffordshire who went to his rest 13th Augst. 1859"

DB 8 July 2024

"In memory of Mary Audus daughter of Samuel Turner who went to her rest 13th November 1869 also of Elizabeth [?] daughter of Samuel Turner who went to her rest 14th August 1861"

DB 8 July 2024

"Above the west door is a C19 lancet and in the fourth stage a C13 2 light opening ... Above again is a hollow moulded string course from which project 3 water chutes, 2 grotesques at the angles and one knight. The battlemented parapet has pinnacles at the angles; the top stage details are repeated on all four sides"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063382?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 July 2024

"The Romanesque tower arch is plastered and hence all its details are obscured apart from the plain imposts which are chamfered on the undersides"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063382?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 July 2024

"The west door has chamfered imposts and a round head with chevron decoration beneath a chamfered hoodmould"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063382?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 July 2024

This four-storey mill stands near the junction of High Street and Whitegate Hill in Wright's haulage yard. (It is also known locally as Wright's Mill.)

Jon Sass Collection, 1890s photograph

Milling at Top Mill (aka Wright's Mill) lost its sails and fantail winding in 1897.

It continued to work with engine power until c.1930.

The tower is listed Grade II.

Location of mill: TA 125 007

Tower House Lane - later Back Lane, now Mill Lane -  joins Grimsby Road at the north-east edge of the town centre.

postcard, 1905

The large Wesleyan Methodist Church in Caistor dates from 1842.

Alongside to the left is the former Methodist Primary School (1867-1967).

Designed by Mr Mason of Brigg and opened in 1842 for the Wesleyan Methodists, this large chapel is Grade II listed. It was later remodelled and extended.

Drawing by Rex Russell (1916-2014)

Early twentieth century view of the chapel from the south.

postcard from Omberette Series of Hull, undated

Chapel viewed from the south.

"Right side has 4 bays with pilasters, each panel. having dentillated cornice and first floor band and containing single sashes at ground and first floor levels having moulded brick heads, with gabled porch dated 1900 at left"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063420?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 May 2024

Chapel viewed from the southeast.

DB 11 May 2024

Chapel viewed from the southwest.

"A LIST AND BRIEF DETAILS OF CHAPELS IN THE MARKET RASEN & CAISTOR CIRCUIT PAST AND PRESENT" prepared by COLIN  SHEPHERDSON & EILEEN H MUMBY September 1997 (Revised August 1998) has :-

"A Society was formed in 1803 and a disused Independent Chapel, in Chapel Street, was purchased in 1805. A Sunday school was added in 1823 and the chapel was enlarged and reopened on the 27.4.1834.

The stonelaying for a new chapel, to a design by Mr Mason of Brigg, was laid on the same site in April 1842 and the chapel opened on the 21.9.1842. It was subsequently remodelled on a number of occasions and a porch was added in 1900.

The Sunday school was replaced in 1867 and became the Wesleyan day school in 1870.

The buildings, listed Grade II, are still in use with a membership of 79."

DB 11 May 2024

West front. 

"Basement with 2 storey 3 bay front, deep plinth upon which 4 pilaster rest which divide the facade into 3 irregular bays, the central bay being wider than the flankers. ... Between the first and the second floors is a stone tablet inscribed 'Wesleyan Chapel'. 

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063420?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 May 2024

Two small fonts.

DB 11 May 2024

"Inside, a complete first floor gallery in the form of a flattened oval, panelled wood front, the whole supported on iron stanchions in the form of baseless round Tuscan columns."

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063420?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 May 2024

Looking east towards the communion table and organ above.

DB 11 May 2024

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Looking west from the gallery.

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Communion table at the east end of the chapel.

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"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT TURNER, WHO DIED MARCH 10TH 1859, ACED 76 YEARS.

ALSO MARTHA TURNER, WIFE OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED MARCH 13TH 1864, ACED 82 YEARS."

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A list of Wesleyan Ministers from Rev. Triffet in 1825 to Rev. Norman Pratt in 1943.

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A list of Methodist Ministers, with photos, from Rev. Cyril Skerrat in 1948 to Rev. David Newlove in 1995.

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The makers plate reads "PETER CONACHER & Co (THE OLD FIRM) HUDDERSFIELD."

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

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South porch dated 1900.

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"THE ROLL OF HEROES

PRO PATRIA

THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CONNECTED WITH

The Caistor Wesleyan Church

WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY."

For further information see 

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/54237

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"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN EYER-LIVING MEMORY OF

ARTHUR BANCROFT

DAVID BANCROFT

ROBERT CAMMACK

W.STUART HUNTER

REGINALD D. MARROWS

HERBERT PARKER

HAROLD ROBINSON

RONALD STANILAND

WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-1919

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1939 - 1945 

T. JOHN VARLOW"

For further information see

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/91323 

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"Sacred

TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR, (1914-1918) CONNECTED WITH THIS CHURCH.

FELL IN FRANCE.

WALTER PARKER, NOV. 13 TH 1916.

WALTER FENTON, MARCH 30 TH 1918.

JOHN R. SPECK, APRIL II TH 1918.

JOHN B. FENTON, AUG. 29 TH 1918.

ROBERT M. CAMMACK, SEPT 18TH 1918.

STANLEY R.S. BRIGHTON, OCT. 14TH1918.

CHARLES F. MADDAMS, NOV. IST 1918.

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1939-1945

REX CHAPMAN, R.A.F. KILLED IN ACTION FEB. 21 ST 1940."

For further information see

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/91318 

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School entrance at side of the chapel.

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School dated 1867.

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Benefaction boards in the school room. 

"INSTRUCTION TO BE GIVEN IN READING, WRITING, ARITHMETIC, AND THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.

THE SAID MARY AUDUS, ALSO DEPOSITED THE SUM OF FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS, WITH THE FEOFFEES FOR PIOUS USES IN SELBY, UPON TRUST TO PAY THE INTEREST THEREOF TO THE TOWN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF LEEDS, YORKSHIRE WITH THE REQUIREMENT THAT ONE OF THEIR MISSIONARIES SHOULD BE SENT TO RESIDE IN CAISTOR, DURING THE SAID WINTER MONTHS, TO VISIT FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE FOR THE READING OF THE SCRIPTURES AND PRAYER. TO PREACH, AND TO TEACH IN THE NIGHT SCHOOL CONDUCTED IN THIS ROOM: HIS AIM TO BE, TO ENDEAVOUR BY GOD'S GRACE, BY EVERY MEANS IN HIS POWER, TO PROMOTE THE SPIRITUAL WELFARE OF ALL AMONGST WHOM HE LABOURS. A WEEKLY REPORT OF HIS LABOURS IS TO BE GIVEN BY HIM TO THE MINISTERS AND TRUSTEES OF THIS ROOM, UNDER WHOSE SUPERINTENDENCE HE IS TO CARRY ON HIS WORK.

THESE DONATIONS HAVE BEEN GIVEN BY THE SAID MARY AUDUS, WITH THE EARNEST PRAYER THAT GOD'S BLESSING MAY REST ON THE WORK THEY ARE INTENDED TO PROMOTE: AND THEY HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT MINISTER AND TRUSTEES ON THE CONDITIONS STATED ABOVE.

(SIGNED) ...

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THE SAID MARY AUDUS BY HER WILL GAVE TO THE SAID FEOFFEES £140 TO BE PLACED BY THEM ON GOOD SECURITY, AND THE INTEREST TO BE APPLIED FOR LIGHTING, WARMING, AND CLEANING THIS SCHOOL, FOR THE THREE NIGHTS EACH WEEK DURING THE THREE MONTHS WHEN THE TOWN MISSIONARY TEACHES THEREIN: IF ANY SURPLUS TO BE APPLIED IN PURCHASING BOOKS OF THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY, FOR A LIBRARY FOR THIS SCHOOL. AUGUST 22ND 1868.

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Former school room which now seems to be in use as a church hall.

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