This a long low brick house, daying from the Elizabethan or Jacobean periods.

The porch on the south side has a four-centred arch to the doorway and pediment above.

Hugh D Martineau, c.1980

Listed in White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 :-

"Lucas John, vict. Livesey Arms"

Joseph Livesey, Esq. was lord of the manor at his time.

The pub's website states that it originated in 1792.

http://theliveseyarms.com/about.php  

DB 8 September 2019

The Primitive Methodist chapel in Ludborough was erected in 1851.

undated postcard

Ludborough – Station Road – Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is not a listed building and appears to have additions on both the east and north sides. However Directory entries for a Rectory in the village are constant from 1842.

Jean Howard 28 December 2023

St Mary's has a tall, worn, ironstone tower dating from the 15th century.   In contrast, chancel and nave, are chalk and are 13th century in origin.

James Fowler rebuilt the nave and aisles in 1858, retaining the Early English style.

In the chancel, one of the window-sills still retains its 13th century painted scroll-work.

September 2012

View from the south-west highlights the contrasting materials of which the church was built and subsequently restored.

The tower, built in the fifteenth century of ironstone and topped with Victorian ashlar crenellation; the nave and chancel of chalk - medieval but reused by Fowler; the south aisle faced in modern cement render (presumably to protect crumbling chalk).

Peter Kirk Collection 1992

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of St. Mary is an edifice of white chalk and Ancaster stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles and an embattled western tower of three storeys containing 3 bells; in 1912 the bells were re-tuned and hung in a steel frame:

in 1858 the north aisle and arcade and the south clerestory wall and chancel arch were rebuilt, one of the old windows of the clerestory then discovered being adopted as a model:

on the sill of one of the, windows in the chancel is a beautiful scroll work painting of the 13th century:

there are some remains of Early stained glass, dating from about 1340:

the chancel retains a good double piscina and an aumbry and there is a sepulchral slab of the 14th century, bearing an incised cross ;

the restoration was carried out at a cost of £900, under the superintendence of Mr. James Fowler, architect, of Louth, and the church was re-opened May 1st, 1860:

several additions have since been made to the internal fittings, at a cost of nearly £100:

a new organ was provided in 1907, at a cost of £120:

a stained glass window was erected in the chancel in 1910 to the memory of the late rector, his wife and daughter:

there are 220 sittings"

DB 8 September 2019

Ludborough St Mary from ESE

This view shows the two lancets and upper quatrefoil window that light the east end. A string course runs around the chancel which has clasping buttresses at the corners and short buttresses below the windows.

Jean Howard 28 December 2023

Ludborough St Mary from NW

The door into the north aisle is the usual entrance to the church. This view shows the great variety of masonry used in construction, including occasional blocks of Spilsby sandstone.

Jean Howard 28 December 2023

Ludborough St Mary from SW

The fifteenth century ironstone tower has a gnarled appearance with even its tall buttresses severely weathered. There are belfry windows in all four faces and the crenelated parapet is limestone. The south aisle has been cruelly cement rendered.

Jean Howard 28 December 2023

Ludborough St Mary from SE

The church was restored by James Fowler following the nave roof being swept away in a gale in 1858. The line of a former nave roof can be seen on the east face of the tower. The clerestorey features three distinctive narrow round-arched windows on both sides of the nave, said to replicate one original window discovered in the restoration. The extensive use of chalk is very evident in this view.

Jean Howard 28 December 2023

"Probably built c1200 A.D. in the Early English style.

The East Window of the Chancel is a lancet with two lights and the quatrefoil window above them has old stained glass"

"The name of Barman is carved on the present altar, date 1618, he probably gave it and may have lived at the manor"

Mrs E.M.Brett's extracts from Rev. R.Dudding's Lecture 1935. 

DB 8 September 2019

A second view of the chancel this time in the midst of a flower festival.

DB 3 September 2023

Round headed aumbry.

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Looking across the sanctuary to a C13 double piscina.

DB 8 September 2019

The thirteenth century priest’s door is on the north side of the chancel. The long abaci end in whorls and the outer moulding has paterae as hood mould stops.

Jean Howard 28 December 2023

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"a stained glass window was erected in the chancel in 1910 to the memory of the late rector, his wife and daughter"

Inscription states that the Rev. Augustus Gedge M.A. was Rector of the parish for 56 years. 

DB 3 September 2023

"On the sill of the westernmost window on the north side of the chancel is a C13 curvilinear floral painted design in red and black paint"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063122?section=official-list-entry 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"on the sill of one of the, windows in the chancel is a beautiful scroll work painting of the 13th century"

DB 3 September 2023

"The C15 font has a plain octagonal bowl on a pedestal"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063122 

DB 8 September 2019

"To the Glory of God and in pious memory of James Widdowson of Hucknall-Torkard who died June 19 1892. Aged 77. Given by his daughter Hannah Nesbit, for Ludborough Church."

DB 3 September 2023

Looking east towards the C13 chancel arch.

The 3 bay arcades either side of the nave are early C13.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063122 

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Looking west towards the C15 tower arch.

DB 8 September 2019

C19 roof?

DB 3 September 2023

Looking east.

DB 8 September 2019

Painting at the west end of the north aisle. One of the three Kings visiting Jesus after his birth?

DB 3 September 2023

Roll of Honour.

"For those who gave their lives in the cause of freedom during World War II within the Parish of Ludborough

On 28th July 1942 a Halifax 2 No. W1213 of 103 squadron crashed at 'Cold Harbour' ...

On 16th October 1942 a Wellington 3 No. X3960 of 142 squadron crashed at 'Damwell's Farm' ... "

DB 3 September 2023

Looking east along the south aisle.

"The South aisle was used as a school until 1863, when the Church School - now the Larches -was built"

Mrs E.M.Brett's extracts from Rev. R.Dudding's Lecture 1935.

DB 8 September 2019

Memorial to Charles Bucknall, a First World War casualty, incorporating the insignia of the Gloucestershire Regiment.

The Regiment inherited the unique privilege in the British Army of wearing a badge on the back of its headdress as well as the front, an honour won by the 28th Regiment when it fought in two ranks back to back at the Battle of Alexandria in 1801.

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

DB 3 September 2023

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM ATKINSON PRIVATE A.S.C. (M.T) ONLY SON OF THE LATE JOSEPH WILLIAM ATKINSON OF THIS PARISH . WHO VOLUNTEERED TO SERVE HIS KING AND COUNTRY. AND LOST HIS LIFE IN THE GREAT WAR BY THE TORPEDOEING OF H.M. TRANSPORT, TRANSYLVANIA, ON MAY 3RD. 1917 IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, AGED 38 YEARS.

"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS - THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS."

RAISED BY HIS SORROWING SISTER ISABELLA."

DB 3 September 2023

"Tall C15 3 stage ironstone tower"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063122 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"an embattled western tower of three storeys containing 3 bells; in 1912 the bells were re-tuned and hung in a steel frame"

DB 8 September 2019

Ludborough – Station Road – The White House (formerly Glebe Farmhouse)

The White House is a mud and stud cottage of seventeenth century origins with later additions.

It is listed Grade II see: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1391639?section=official-list-entry although at the time of the listing (2006) the thatched roof was of corrugated iron.

Though the front door is new it still gives a baffle entry to the central chimney stack.

Jean Howard 28 December 2023

Ludborough War Memorial

The village war memorial stands in the north-west corner of the churchyard. It is made from polished red Aberdeen granite and is a cross on a plinth and two steps. For details of the 13 men commemorated see:

https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/172836 and:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/54015

Jean Howard 28 December 2023