Christ Church was a corrugated iron building of 1885 with a north west tower. Considered unsafe, it became disused in the 1960s and was subsequently demolished. Services resumed at the thatched church of St Peter.

Undated postcard by Bullen of Grimsby 

The seats were said to have been designed by Ewan Christian and came from a church in Surrey. Pevsner called the colour scheme 'battleship grey with pitch-pine'.*

* N. Pevsner & J. Harris, Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1964

St Peter's Church, the only thatched church in Lincolnshire was built in the early seventeenth century.

Markby, St Peter contains thirteenth century stone from the nearby Augustinian Priory, including the dogtooth on the chancel arch.

Inside are box pews, a two-decker pulpit and a three-sided communion rail. It is said that the roof was originally tiled.

Frank Robinson, 2008

St Peter's church, though modest in size and architectural interest, has always attracted visitors on account of its thatched roof.

Undated postcard

View of St Peter's from the south-east.

Peter Kirk Collection, 1997

The thatched roof of St Peter's seems to be need of repair in this early twentieth-century postcard of the church.

courtesy Brenda Coulson

Church viewed from the northeast. Kelly's Directory 1885 states that :-

"The church of St. Peter is an ancient brick and stone building, consisting of chancel and nave, covered with a thatched roof, and a small turret containing 1 bell.

The register dates from the year 1558.

The living is a vicarage, consolidated with the rectory of Hannah-cum-Hagnaby, joint net yearly value, from 119 acres of glebe £280 with residence, in the gift of Charles Langton Massingberd esq. J.P. of Gunby Hall, and the Rev. E. H. Edman M.A. rector of Thornton le-Moor, near Caistor, Lincolnshire, alternately, and held since 1881 by the Rev. Arthur Smyth M.A., LL.B. of Trinity College, Dublin".

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East end of St Peter's church showing the "roughly coursed reused ashlar".

"Parish Church. Mid C16 with reused stonework from the medieval Augustinian Priory on the site, restored 1962"

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"Early C18 tall turned baluster altar rails"

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Ledger stone in the chancel floor immediately before the sanctuary step.

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"Interior has a plastered chancel arch with above the reset voussoirs of an early C13 dogtooth archway presumably from the site of the nearby Augustinian Priory".

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Interior looking east. The wide chancel arch has thirteenth century stone - with dog-tooth decoration - built into it.

The fittings include box pews and a two-decker pulpit.

September 2018

Looking east towards the chancel. 

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Looking west towards the font.

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Looking east towards the chancel.

"Panelled pulpit with balusters to steps, all repositioned, and box pews"

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A plain octagonal font, chipped and rather badly stained.

September 2018

"C14 plain octagonal font with moulded base"

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War memorial plaque located beneath the west window. Presumably transferred from Christ Church when that was demolished in the 1960's.

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