Off the A158 Lincoln to Skegness road, the small church of Holy Trinity, Hagworthingham, is a greenstone building of medieval origins  drastically restored by James Fowler of Louth in 1859.

The tower fell down in 1972.

Mark Acton, 2014

This postcard, probably from early twentieth-century, shows the broad tower of greenstone and brick.

The bell openings in the tower and all the windows elsewhere in the building are Victorian.

undated postcard

Another view of Holy Trinity church from the south-east.

The south aisle was completely rebuilt in Fowler's restoration of 1859.

January 2017

Seen from the south, the rather awkward modification of the nave roof and buttressing of the west wall following the removal of the tower is apparent.

January 2017

The church tower was in a state of coleapse when this photograph was taken on 1 October 1978.

Jews' Court collection, 1978

"Parish church. Cll, C12, restored C14, clerestorey destroyed C14, heavily restored 1859 by J. Fowler, tower collapsed 1972. Dressed greenstone, some red brick patching. Plain tile roofs with decorative ridge"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063670?section=official-list-entry 

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Looking east towards the sanctuary.

Organ chamber immediately right beyond the chancel arch. 

Chancel rebuilt in 1859 by Fowler of Louth.

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Looking west through the C19 tower arch and back into the nave.

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"+ TO THE HONOR & GLORY OF THE BLESSED TRINITY + IN MEMORY OF HIS FOREFATHERS 300 YEARS RESIDENTS AND PROPRIETORS IN THIS PARISH - THIS WINDOW IS GIVEN BY THEIR DESCENDANT HENRY CHEALES CLERK + THEY REST FROM THEIR LABOURS AND THEIR WORKS DO FOLLOW THEM +"

White's Directory 1872 notes "Earl Manvers is lord of the manor, but a great part of the soil belongs to the Rev. Henry Cheales" also "Cheales William B. farmer, Old Hall".

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"IN MEMORIAM HENRY CHEALES M.A. SOMETIME VICAR OF BURTON PEDWARDINE. FOR SIXTY SIX YEARS A LANDOWNER OF THIS PARISH. BORN AT SLEAFORD 1796, DIED AT BOURNEMOUTH 1890.

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"THE KNEELERS WERE PRESENTED IN 1987 BY BRENDA HECKFORD IN LOVING MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND JOHN. WORKED BY HER FRIENDS."

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"In loving Memory of Private Colin Arthur Maddison Aged 24, and Lieut. Brian Armitage Maddison, R.N.R. Aged 20 who gave their lives for their country in the Great War. 1914-1918"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/59483 

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"THE ELECTRIC LIGHTING WAS INSTALLED IN THIS CHURCH TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE TAYLOR RAMSDEN BY HIS BROTHER JOHN WATKINSON RAMSDEN A.D. 1939 OF HAREBY"

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Decoration immediately behind the altar with the script reading

"+HOLY:HOLY:HOLY+"

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Decorative screen behind the altar.

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Lancet window on the south side of the chancel.

Text under the figure reads "I know that my Redeemer liveth".

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Lancet window on the north side of the chancel.

Text in the window reads :-

" SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME

+ IN MEMORIAM +"

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War Memorial unveiled 11 November 1919. Made by E Browning and Sons of Spilsby.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/42938 

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"REMEMBER IN MERCY THOSE WHO DIED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE IN OUR DEFENCE GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS St JOHN XV"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/42938 

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Looking east towards the chancel.

Kelly's Directory 1930 notes :-

"The church of the Holy Trinity is an ancient edifice of stone, in the Transitional and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and a low western tower containing a clock and 8 bells:

the belfry is open to the nave and has a handsome iron screen:

the foundation and walls contain Saxon work, and there are also remains of Norman architecture and a low side window:

the chancel and south aisle were rebuilt in 1859 in the Early English style, and the church generally restored, the material being sandstone, with freestone dressings:

the east window is a memorial to the Cheales family, and there are others, including one to H.R.H. the Prince Consort, who died 14 Dec. 1861:

the font is of Early English date:

a processional cross was presented in 1927 by John Mallow Pearson, of Chicago, U.S.A .:

the oak lectern was the gift of Mrs. Charles Palmer, of Swaffham:

there are 250 sittings.

In the churchyard is an obelisk in memory of the men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18.

The parish register dates from the year 1562.

The living is a rectory, net yearly value £358, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and held since 1926 by the Rev. Arthur Donald Lawson.

The rectory house was built in 1841 at a cost of about £2,000"

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Looking west towards the blocked tower arch.

White's Directory 1872 has " The Church (Holy Trinity) is an ancient structure, consisting of nave, aisles, chancel, south porch and a low tower containing eight bells. The chancel and south aisle were rebuilt, and the remainder of the church restored, in 1859, under the superintendence of Mr. James Fowler, of Louth"

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Awards displayed on the south side of the blocked tower arch including :-

Best kept village competition 1993 & 1997 

Trees For Life appeal

Horncastle R.D.C. School Salvage Shield 1943

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C19(?) wooden pulpit.

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Framed and glazed roll of honour.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/59485 

"Roll of Honour

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." 

Displayed loose on a window ledge north side of the nave. 

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Looking from west to east along the C19(?) nave roof.

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"TO THE MEM: OF ALBERT PRINCE CONSORT ERECTED 1865"

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"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF WILLIAM BELLINGHAM CHEALES BORN 18TH FEBRY 1838 DIED 23RD MARCH 1883 ERECTED BY THE REVD H CHEALES"

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Organ chamber on the south side of the chancel.

Church Guide Notes state "In 1537 a pair of Organs had been put in the Church and organ players from Horncastle received 8d. for playing on them in 1538."

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"TO THE MEMORY OF MRS HILDA HARRISON 1910-1997

ORGANIST IN THIS CHURCH FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS

"O PRAISE YE THE LORD, ALL THINGS THAT GIVE SOUND; EACH JUBILANT CHORD RE-ECHO AROUND""

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The porch dates from the restoration by Fowler in 1859.

Jews' Court collection, 1978

"C19 porch with moulded and chamfered arched entrance, the inner order supported on a single pair of colonnettes. Hood mould and decorative label stops over"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063670?section=official-list-entry 

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Floral display immediately inside the porch.

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List of Rectors from Baldwin instituted in 1219 to Leslie John Bliss in 1965.

Church Guide Notes state " The first mention of a Church at Hagworthingham is in Domesday Book, A.D.1086, where the name of the Parish is Hacberdingham"

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Looking east.

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Looking west towards the font.

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The south arcade of four bays dates from the Early English period and has circular piers and abaci.

January 2017

Holy Trinity's font dates from the fifteenth century and is a simple octagonal shape on a shafted base.

January 2017

A second view of the font.

"Mid C13 octagonal ashlar font, the bowl supported on 8 slim shafts with single central larger shaft"

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Church Guide Notes report :- 

"On 9th October 1972 at 8.10 a.m. the South and West walls of the Tower collapsed, and it being impossible to rebuild the eight bells were removed in December 1976 and sold to be erected in St. Chad's Church, Welbourn, Lincolnshire."

Guide notes obviously written before the collapse have :-

"BELLS.

There is a peal of eight.

The 5th is the earliest, and was cast by a Nottingham founder, the first Henry Oldfield, about the middle of the 16th century. The 6th was cast in the same foundry, and is dated 1627, and bears the inscription FEARE GOD"

The 7th was cast by the York founder Samuel Smith, and is dated 1686. It is inscribed "TRINITE SACRA FIT CAMPANA BEATA", and translated by Canon Oldfield, once rector of this parish, as "Happy bell . O well is thee, sacred to the Trinity.

Nos 2,3 and 4 are dated 1802, and cast by Briant of Hertford, whilst the treble, and tenor are dated 1824, and cast by Harrison of Barton-on- Humber.

At one period all were rung by eight brothers named Hubbard. 

All need re-hanging, none can now be rung. Conditions allow that only on special occasions may they be tapped, but we do tap one for each service.

The cost of re-hanging is quite beyond our reach, to our great regret."

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Blocked tower arch viewed from the west.

"West wall with evidence of former chamfered tower arch, now part blocked with a single rectangular light. The lower portion of the west wall projects and extending from either side, forming a quadrangle, is a low ashlar and red brick wall, being the remains of the angle buttressed tower"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063670?section=official-list-entry  

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This striking gold mount is set with a green glass setting and decorated with strips of beaded gold wire.

Damage to one end shows that it is hollow, and the damaged area probably represents the place where a suspension loop once was, making the mount a pendant.

Further glass or precious stones would have been set into the smaller circular mounts around the edges.

This fine item of jewellery is currently unparalleled in Britain, though it has been cautiously dated on stylistic grounds to the later Roman period.

Courtesy of Lincolnshire County Council, The Collection

Former school viewed from the churchyard.

White' Directory 1872 has "The Free School, built by subscription in 1704, and rebuilt on a new site, with a house for the master, in 1823, at the cost of £170, raised by voluntary contributions, is about to be taken down and a new one erected in lieu of it, at an estimated expense of £500, including a residence for the teacher. The old School Close (3 acres) was exchanged at the enclosure, in 1796, for 3A. 1R., now worth £6. 10s. per annum; besides which the master has the interest of £300, bequeathed by the late Mr. John Dawson, in 1838; and 10s. a year, left by the Rev. William Dales, who, in 1667, left 2A. 38P. of land to pay this annuity, and the residue of the yearly income, to the poor and the bell ringers. This land is now let for £5. 10s"

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Stockwith Mill is on the River Lymn about one mile north-east of Hagworthingham village centre.

The mill, with its breastshot waterwheel, was built in 1828 on the site of an earlier mill.

Location of mill: TF 357 704

Ken Redmore, 2003

This tower mill dates from at least 1816, maybe earlier.

It operated with four pairs of stones from the mid-nineteenth century until it closed during the Second World War.

In 1950 the cap was replaced by a pitched roof and the remaining two sails were removed.

Postcard published by W K Morton, from David Robinson Collection, no date

A four-storey mill built in the early nineteenth century. It was worked by wind until the 1940s and it soon became derelict after that date.

Location of mill: TF 344 697