"Parish church. Cll, C13, C14, C16, C18, restored 1904 by T. J. Micklethwaite"

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Peter Kirk Collection, 2 April 1992

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of All Saints is an ancient building of stone, consisting of large chancel, restored in 1904 at a cost of about £650, nave, south porch and a low wooden turret with five small pinnacles and containing one bell:

the church formerly had a north aisle and a tower, but these were taken down and the materials used in building walls to inclose the churchyard and three of the bells were sold about 1810:

there are 90 sittings.

The register dates from the year 1656.

The living is a vicarage, consolidated with that of Baumber, joint net yearly value from 256 acres of glebe £200, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1917 by the Rev. Alfred Reginald Thorald Winckley M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, who resides at Baumber"

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White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"The Church (All Saints) is an ancient structure, with a wooden belfry, and formerly had a north aisle.

The vicarage, valued in K.B. at £8, and now at £153, with Baumber curacy annexed to it, is in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and incumbency of the Rev. John Fawssett, M.A., of Minting.

At the enclosure, a great part of the parish was in a sterile condition, and 237 A. were allotted to the vicar, and 160A. to the impropriator, in lieu of tithes"

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The chancel was shortened in early C20 presumably by T.J.Micklethwaite as part of the 1904 restoration.

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Looking west, through the Mid C13 chancel arch, and into the nave.

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Commandment, Lords Prayer and Creed Boards.

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More detailed view of the altar and C20 ashlar reredos.

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"North wall of chancel with part of richly cusped tomb recess and arch truncated when chancel shortened in early C20"

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Looking east, passed the font, towards the mid C13 chancel arch.

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Looking west towards the "Interior tower arch of C16 timber probably re-set from aisled hall.

Inner sides of arcade posts and soffit of jointed braces with triple roll mouldings.

Extra straight bracing between angle formed by tie beam and posts and curved braces.

Re-used C16 timbers without moulded decoration in north-west and south-west corners, probably outer timbers of original aisled hall.

Flat panelled ceiling masks upper section of timbers"

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Looking across the nave towards the north wall.

"Mid C13, three bay north arcade partially exposed. Second pier to east with mid C13 capital of 4 attached shafts alternating with re-entrant curves.

Round probably earlier pier below (or possible later encasing of C13 pier).

Part of double chamfered pointed arch exposed to west, whole of double chamfered pointed bay to east with red and white fleur de lys painted decoration"

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C11 round headed dorrway with C16 plank door.

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"C14 octagonal font heavily restored in early C20 with flowing cusped decoration and tall octagonal base with cusped ogee heads"

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Memorial next to the chancel arch.

William Settle was Vicar of the parish for 52 years.

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"Early C20 pews, lectern and pulpit"

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A plate attached to the pulpit states that it was given in memory of Algernon Montague Livsey, M.A. (1875 - 1951) who was lord of the manor. Also of Lady Evelyn Livsey (1869 - 1923).

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Royal Arms of George III dated 1808.

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A nearby notice states :-

"The painting on the North wall of the nave, at the West end, on the filling of the blocked arcade to a destroyed North aisle was examined and treated in 1949.

It is very much damaged having been exposed for over a century.

It was seen by the Archdeacon Bonney in 1848 and he described it as "Time and Death". Until the present treatment, it was not certain that this was in fact the subject. 

It is of considerable interest, as being one of the very few instances where post-Reformation church decorators allowed themselves a figure subject.

Time on the left, is winged and scantily clad and is running over a tombstone, forelock flying, hour-glass in one hand, scythe in the other. 

The texts on the front of the tomb are : Ephesians 5 v 16 ("... redeeming the time ..."), and 1 Corinthians 7 v 31 (" ... for the fashion of the world passeth away ...). 

Death, represented by a skeleton walking away on another tombstone on the right, holds a spade in one hand, and possibly a mattock in the other. The inscription cannot be read.

The work is unusually good and may well follow a woodcut or other engraving. 

Its date is probably within the first half of the 17th century, and the subject a continuation of the theme of mortality and the passing nature of this world exemplified in the medieval morality of the "Three Living and Three Dead".

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"C20 red brick gabled porch to west with plain doorway with segmental head. Porch interior with flanking brick benches"

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"Small central early C13 doorway with pointed head, chamfered surround and blocked with red brick.

Large pointed mid C14 window above, very heavily restored in 1904, with 3 round headed, cusped lights and 3 cusped mouchettes"

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