The short tower built of friable ironstone has pairs of thirteenth century bell-openings.

May 2016

Much of the church of St Nicholas was rebuilt in 1869 by William White.

May 2016

North Kelsey All Hallows from NE.

The north aisle has a separate gabled roof. The church is Grade II listed, see:  https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359811?section=official-list-entry

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At the east end of the north aisle is this splendid table tomb under an arched recess with moulding and finial for W F Chambers, who died in 1855 and was physician in ordinary to Queen Victoria.

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Set into the black marble surface of the tomb is a brass cross, two figures and a border of text which reads: In memory of William Frederic Chambers KCM MD FRCS Physician in Ordinary to the Queen who died at Hordecliffe(?) Hampshire on 16 December 1855 aged 69 & of Frances Elizabeth his youngest daughter, wife of the Rev James Alexander Crozier MD Chaplain to HM Forces(?) who died on 6 August 1858 aged 33.

Chambers was physician in ordinary to Queen Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen and King William IV of England. At the change of monarch he became physician in ordinary to Queen Victoria, and two years later, also to the Duchess of Kent. For further details of his life see:-

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

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The screen is mainly white painted cast iron with candle holders on the uprights. The lower level is stone with the text ‘YE SHALL REVERENCE MY SANCTUARY’.

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This coffin lid with its foliated cross, which lies in the chancel of the church, probably dates from the mid thirteenth century.

May 2016

This section of shaft is built into the west wall of the south porch. A number of pieces of masonry are said to have been brought from the demolished church of St Nicholas at South Kelsey and incorporated into All Hallows.

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A board recording the legacy of Anna Tesh of Caistor, a sum of £200 in 1834.

May 2016

This Norman slab with closely set horizontal zig-zag is in the south wall of the nave.

It is possibly a grave slab.

May 2016

The north arcade dates from 1869 and the pillars are of a variety of marbles: that closest to camera, and another two columns away are of fluted cross-section of grey and pink marble: the central one is a single column of cream marble with brown veining. 

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Organ located at the east end of the nave.

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The north arcade has piers constructed in pink marble.

They date from the 1869 reconstruction.

May 2016

A calligraphy list of incumbents from 1276 to 2014.

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Rectangular wooden pulpit with metal decoration on an ashlar base probably from the 1869 restoration under William White. Note also the respond with a narrow shaft at the east end of the north arcade.

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The short tower built of friable ironstone has pairs of thirteenth century bell-openings.

May 2016

The east window of the north aisle is in memory of Marie, wife of W F Chambers whose tomb is close by. She died in 1839. The design is of the tree of Jesse and is an artistic representation of the genealogical descent of Christ from the house of David. The figure of Jesse lies asleep along the bottom edge of the window and from his side a branch grows to link in the figures of David, Solomon, Asa, Josaphat, Ezekiah and Josias up to the Virgin Mary and the Christ child in the tracery at the top.

The tree of Jesse is the original depiction of a family tree and it is based on a passage in the Book of Isaiah. More information on other examples can be found at:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_Jesse#:~:text=The%20figures%20in%20the%20window,him%3B%20fifth%20light%2C%20Jesse.  

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On the north wall of the chancel is this monument to Edward Wright and his family. Recessed behind double arched moulding on marble shafts are two white marble tablets bearing family names for three generations of Edward Wright’s family. In a roundel above is a coat of arms.

The text reads: TO THE MEMORY OF/ EDWARD WRIGHT, OF NORTH KELSEY,/ WHO DIED JULY 12TH 1792, AGED 72 YEARS,/ AND MARY, HIS WIFE WHO DIED JANUARY 4TH/ 1779 AGED 62 YEARS./ ALSO OF THEIR CHILDREN/ ANNE WARD WHO DIED APRIL 12TH 1774,/ AGED 25 YEARS./ THOMAS WHO DIED NOVEMBER 30TH 1777,/ AGED 35 YEARS./ EDWARD, WHO DIED DECEMBER 15TH 1778,/ AGED 33 YEARS./ JOHN WHO DIED AT BINBROOK HALL JAN’Y 4TH/ 1838 AGED 79 YEARS/ AND MARY DAWSON, WHO DIED AT HARPSWELL,/ MARCH 2ND 1822, AGED 72 YEARS./ ALSO OF WILLIAM, SON OF THE BEFORE/ NAMED EDWARD AND MARY WRIGHT, WHO/ DIED JANUARY 28TH 1797 AGED 47 YEARS./ AND URSULA JANE SEXTY, HIS WIFE, WHO DIED/ AT BRATTLEBY NOV’R 15TH 1824, AGED 71 YEARS./ AND OF THEIR CHILDREN/ SUSANNA WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 28TH 1799,/ AGED 13 YEARS./ EDWARD, WHO DIED AUGUST 9TH 1857 AGED/ 72 YEARS AND WAS BURIED AT BRATTLEBY./ AND MARY WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 19TH 1858/ AGED 75 YEARS./ SAMUEL WRIGHT WRIGHT/ DIED JUNE 17TH 1894.

Also visible is one of the corbels of the chancel roof.

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The first Wesleyan Methodist chapel in North Kelsey was built in 1796, the second in 1848.

This in turn was replaced by the present building in Chapel Street in 1897.

May 2016

North Kelsey Methodist chapel has a small pipe organ with attractively decorated pipes.

May 2016

This four-floored brick tower mill, built in the early nineteenth century, stands on Carr Lane.

The mill operated by both wind and steam power until the end of the century and was abandoned in 1905.

Location of mill: TA 036 013

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

North Kelsey is a village of some 900 people 4 miles west of Caistor.

It has an Anglican church and a Methodist chapel.

Its railway station, out at North Kelsey Moor, closed in 1965.

undated postcard