This seems to be an illustration of the demolished All Hallows Church. 

https://www.horsington-lincs.com/all-saints-church-1860-today  

White's Directory 1856 comments "The church is an ancient thatched structure, but the erection of a new one is in  contemplation; and the rectory, valued in K.B. at £9. 11s. 2d., and now at £222, is enjoyed by the Rev. George Hunter Fell, B.D., for whom a new Rectory House is building"

The present All Saints Church in Horsington was built 1858-60 by David Brandon. Illustration hanging in the south aisle of All Saints Church.

DB 25 July 2024

The painting is signed Nina Rice 1915. It would seem to be a copy of the drawing by Nattes in the collection at County Archives on which it has been noted that the building was demolished in 1860. The building shown stood a considerable distance south-west from the present church and its churchyard is accessible with permission from the farmer who owns the surrounding land. Nina Hardy (1869-1949) was born in Goring, Oxon and married Edward J H Rice, third son of Revd Richard H Rice, one time incumbent of Horsington. 

Jean Howard

All Saints is of red brick with ashlar dressings, and has a red brick tower and broach spire.

The church was built in 1858-60, on a new site nearer to the village, by David Brandon.

All Saints is of red brick with ashlar dressings, and has a red brick tower and broach spire.

The church was built in 1858-60, on a new site nearer to the village, by David Brandon.

The bricks are laid in English Garden Wall bond (3 rows of stretchers between rows of headers)

Aug 2011

Kelly's Directory 1919 has :-

"The church of All Saints, built in 1860 (in place of a temporary church used when All Hallows church had gone to ruin), is an edifice of red brick with stone dressings in the Early English Lancet style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and a western tower with broach spire and dormer lights containing one bell:

the stained east window is a memorial to the Rev. J. F. Smith B. D. a former rector, d. May, 1871, and was erected by his widow; there are other memorial windows to Col. Bonar Millet Deane, 2nd son of the Rev. George Deane, late rector of Bighton, who fell in South Africa at the battle of Laings Nek, Jan. 28, 1881, and to Lieut. Evan Cowper Smith, son of the Rev. J. F. Smith, a former rector, who died of fever while serving in Afghanistan, July 26, 1880, aged 19, and also a memorial brass erected by Mrs. Cowper Smith to her son Capt. Arthur Monro Cowper Smith, who died 28th Sept. 1898, of injuries received in a grass fire while shooting big game on the Pungwe river:

there are 169 sittings"

DB 3 June 2022

Written onto the fly-leaf of one of the Bibles is: ‘Presented to Horsington Church, May 1957,/ by Charles E Maughan, in memory/ of his dear mother,/ Mary Ann Maughan’.

Jean Howard 4 October 2024

Looking east towards the sanctuary.

All fittings C19. 

DB 25 July 2024

A closer view of the altar.

DB 25 July 2024

"WHILE THEY BEHELD HE WAS TAKEN UP AND A CLOUD RECEIVED HIM OUT OF THEIR SIGHT ACTS:1:9"

Kelly's Directory 1919 comments "the stained east window is a memorial to the Rev. J. F. Smith B. D. a former rector, d. May, 1871, and was erected by his widow"

DB 25 July 2024

"In Memory Of Colonel Bonar Millet Deane Second Son Of The Revd George Deane Late Rector Of Bighton Who Fell On The Path Of Duty To His Queen And Country In South Africa Gallantly Leading A Column Of The 58th Regt Under General G Colley At The Battle Of Laings Nek January 28th 1881 Aged 46 Years He Fought A Good Fight He Kept The Faith Jesu Mercy"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/94250 

First Boer War memorial on the south side of the chancel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Laing%27s_Nek 

DB 25 July 2024

"A memorial brass erected by Mrs. Cowper Smith to her son Capt. Arthur Monro Cowper Smith, who died 28th Sept. 1898, of injuries received in a grass fire while shooting big game on the Pungwe river"

The Pungwe River is a 250 mile long river in Zimbabwe and Mozambique,

DB 8 April 2017

"Lieut. Evan Cowper Smith, son of the Rev. J. F. Smith, a former rector, who died of fever while serving in Afghanistan, July 26, 1880, aged 19"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/94253 

DB 8 April 2017

On the south chancel wall this plaque reads:

ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF/ THIS CHANCEL, REST THE MORTAL/ REMAINS OF THE REVEREND/ THOMAS FREDERICK SMITH BD/ FORMERLY FELLOW OF S. MARY/ MAGDALENE COLLEGE, OXFORD,/ RECTOR OF THIS PARISH FROM/ NOVEMBER 27 1856, TILL MAY 21,/ THE SUNDAY AFTER ASCENSION DAY,/ 1871 ON WHICH DAY HE DEPARTED/ THIS LIFE AGED 50 YEARS./ UNDER HIS CARE THE CHURCH &/ NATIONAL SCHOOL WERE BUILT./ IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE/ OF HIM AND OF THEIR ONLY DAUGHTER ISABELLA CATHERINE/ WHO DIED AT WEYMOUTH JULY 12/ 1866 AGED 1 YEAR AND 9 MONTHS/ THE … EAST WINDOW WAS/ ERECTED BY HIS WIFE/ OUR FATHER THY KINGDOM COME.

Jean Howard 4 October 2024

The maker's plate reads

"CASSON'S PATENT

POSITIVE ORGAN CO. LTD

LONDON

Op. 196"

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

DB 25 July 2024

Jesus carrying his cross depicted on the north side of the altar.

DB 25 July 2024

A depiction of the crucifixion on the south side of the altar.

DB 25 July 2024

A stack of three church chests the two lower ones believed to have been brought from the former church. The one decorated with trefoils is marked AC 1720 and the largest GB 1724.5.

Jean Howard 4 October 2024

Path leading to the churchyard - entrance off Main Street.

DB 25 July 2024

This unusually shaped and mosaic decorated headstone reads:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ WILLIAM OGDEN/ WHO ENTERED INTO REST/ 6TH NOV 1938/ AGED 95 YEARS/ ALSO OF HIS BELOVED WIFE/ JANE,/ WHO FELL ASLEEP/ 30TH AUG 1932/ AGED 86 YEARS/ REUNITED.

William seems to have come from quite humble beginnings, his father dying when he was seven years old. He was a shepherd, then an agricultural foreman but by 1901 was farming on his ‘own account’ at Metheringham. In Kelly’s Directories from 1919 until 1937 Ogden & Robinson are shown as farmers in Horsington; Frederick Robinson was William Ogden’s son-in-law.

Jean Howard 4 October 2024

A view across the nave and into the south aisle.

"The 4 bay C19 south arcade has circular piers and abaci and pointed arches"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063154?section=official-list-entry 

DB 3 June 2022

Looking east towards the chancel.

White's Directory 1872 has :-

"The Church (All Saints), rebuilt in 1860, in lieu of the old thatched fabric, is a neat structure of brick, with stone dressings, and consists of nave, chancel, aisle and tower surmounted with a spire.

The east window is ornamented with stained glass, inserted by his widow, in memory of the Rev. T. F. Smith, B.D., the late rector, who died in May, 1871.

The rectory, valued in K.B. at £9. 11s. 2d., and now at £430 per annum, is in the incumbency of the Rev. Francis Hugh Deane, B.D., who has a commodious residence, erected in 1857, at the expense of the patrons.

At the enclosure, about 1760, 290 acres were allotted in lieu of tithes, and there are 14 acres of glebe in South Somercotes parish" 

DB 25 July 2024

Looking west.

DB 25 July 2024

A second view looking west.

DB 25 July 2024

C19 pulpit.

DB 25 July 2024

"FOR KING AND COUNTRY

ROLL OF HONOUR"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/80103 

DB 25 July 2024

"IN MEMORY OF THE GREAT WAR"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/20412 

DB 25 July 2024

C19 south porch.

DB 25 July 2024

Looking east towards a side altar.

Blocked arch behind the altar which would have given access into the tower. 

DB 25 July 2024

Looking west towards the font.

DB 25 July 2024

Side altar at the east end of the south aisle.

DB 25 July 2024

A door at the right hand end of the panelling behind leads into the base of the tower.

Jean Howard 

C19 font.

DB 25 July 2024

A small brass plaque attached to the font lid reads: IN MEMORIAM/ HAROLD CHRISTOPHER BATES/ LIEUT. R.E., NEPHEW OF THE RECTOR,/ WHO FELL IN FRANCE, AUG 18TH 1915,/ AGED 24 YEARS/ "PRO PATRIA”.

Jean Howard

A well-maintained sign mounted on the back of the main door showing that the church has had several programmes of restoration.

Jean Howard 4 October 2024

Unusually the tower is on the south of the building quite close to the east end.

May 2011

C19 vestry on the north side of the chancel.

DB 25 July 2024

Horsington former Baronet Inn

The Baronet Inn pre-dated The Elder Tree, but is not named in Directory entries until1872 when it was run by William Scott. The Scott family continued to operate it until at least 1896; John Moore is listed in 1913; Mrs Harriet Turner from 1919 until 1933; then Edward Marks in 1937.

Jean Howard 4 October 2024

The roadside building on this site began as a WWI army hut brought from Mablethorpe to become a YMCA hut.

The second building at the rear was erected  in 1962 as a snooker hall.

Following the Queen’s Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977 the village raised funds to buy, renovate and improve the now neglected wooden hut which became the Village Hall. Since October 2023 it has been known as the Charles Hill Community Hall in recognition of the public service of that former resident. See:

https://www.horsington-history.com/the-village-hall

Jean Howard 4 October 2024

Not listed in Kelly's Directory 1919 or 1937. The Baronet Inn, which is listed, is now a private house.

DB 19 May 2018

The Elder Tree Inn was built in the 1920s by the Market Rasen Brewery Company Ltd. but later sold to become a free house. In Kelly’s 1933 Directory the landlord was William Donson who is listed as a beer retailer in Horsington as early as 1919. The pub changed hands just before the outbreak of Covid and has since been closed. It is said to be under renovation and it is hoped it will re-open soon.

Jean Howard 4 October 2024

This mill was built in 1827 with five floors and four sails.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Green's Mill worked until the early twentieth century. It was reduced to a two-storey stump some time before 1932.

Location of mill: TF 191 683

Hill's Mill was a four-storey mill with four sails built c.1813.

Location of mill: TF 196 695

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Manor Farm is not named in Directories until 1922 when the farmer was John William Bell.

Jean Howard 4 October 2024

Now a residence this was the National School (single storey to the left) and schoolmaster’s house. It was built in 1861 and closed in 1982. It was designed by David Brandon, also the architect of Horsington church and rectory.

Jean Howard 4 October 2024

This building is marked on the 1888 Ordnance Survey 25” map as a Sunday School. According to Directory entries it was built in 1837 as a chapel, and later used as a Wesleyan Sunday School, but accounts vary as to whether it was originally for the Independents or the Primitive Methodists.

Jean Howard 4 October 2024

A mud and stud early 18th century cottage with 19th century alterations, listed Grade II; see:

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063155?section=official-list-entry 

Jean Howard 4 October 2024

Village sign depicting what appears to be Hill's Mill.

Two mills listed in Kelly's Directory 1919 "Green Joseph Robert, miller (wind')" and "Hill William, miller (wind), Horsington mill"

DB 5 June 2021

The three village signs were all renewed for the Millenium. They were designed, cast and given by Charles Harrison Hill (CHH) the Chairman of the Parish Council.

Jean Howard 

The three village signs were all renewed for the Millenium. They were designed, cast and given by Charles Harrison Hill (CHH) the Chairman of the Parish Council. The sign at the northern end of the village shows a horse pulling a ton, a play on the placename.

Jean Howard 4 October 2024

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Horncastle & Bardney Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Anthony EG Whiting September 1997 states :- 

"A house was registered for worship in 1797 and a chapel erected in 1838. The chapel was enlarged in 1860 and the last service held on the 10.10.1976. It is now a private residence, "The Old Chapel", situated on the corner of Moor Lane and Main/Bucknall Roads" 

DB 5 June 2021