"Scopwick Church Burial Ground contains 50 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War and five German war graves. The graves form a plot in the top half of the burial ground.

The Cross of Sacrifice in the corner of the plot was unveiled by the Air Member, Canadian Joint Staff on 1 June 1950"

https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/2100771/scopwick-church-burial-ground/ 

DB 28 January 2019

"The village cemetery includes a War Graves site for airmen from RAF Coleby Grange and RAF Digby (originally RAF Scopwick), and includes that of the young Second World War poet and aviator John Gillespie Magee"

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

DB 28 January 2019

"John Gillespie Magee Jr. (9 June 1922 - 11 December 1941) was a World War II Anglo-American Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and poet, who wrote the poem High Flight"

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth ... Put out my hand, and touched the face of God"

"High Flight has been a favourite poem amongst both aviators and astronauts.

It is the official poem of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force and has to be recited from memory by fourth class cadets at the United States Air Force Academy, where it can be seen on display in the Cadet Field House"

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

DB 2020

Information displayed beneath the tower arch in Holy Cross Church.

"RAF Digby War Graves plot - Scopwick Churchyard. These images were taken on the 1 st June 1950 during the service for the unveiling and dedication of the Cross of Sacrifice. In attendance were cadets from the Training College at Digby. The wreath layers standing on the left of the image were: A/Cdre Hurley on behalf of the RCAF, A/Cdre G.Beamish (Commandant RAF College Cranwell) and Gp/Capt D. Lumgair (Digby Stn Cmdr) G.Beamish was one of four brothers from Southern Ireland who all joined the RAF An outstanding rugby player in his day - capped for Ireland 26 times. His brother, Victor Beamish - who did not survive the war - arrived at Digby in Sept 1939 as 0/C of 504 Squadron" 

DB 1 October 2022

Undated photograph of the local football team, thought to be Scopwick F.C.

David Robinson Collection

Holy Cross is essentially a 13th century church, extensively restored in the 19th century.

The tower is Early English in its lower stages and seventeenth century above, while the nave has three-bay Early English arcades.

June 2013

A stream runs through the attractive village of Scopwick.

The church of Holy Cross is largely the result of restoration in 1852 though the tower is Early English apart from the C17 top.

The chancel dates to 1884. There is a monument of a cross-legged knight dated to the C14.

Mark Acton 2014

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of the Holy Cross is an ancient building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a western tower containing 3 bells:

there are several ancient monuments to members of the Sewell family:

in 1882 the nave was restored, and both aisles rebuilt at a cost of £700:

the south porch was rebuilt in 1884 as a memorial to Mrs. Hall, of Scopwick Vicarage, and in 1908 the church was renovated within, at a cost of £40, and a new organ purchased at a cost of £150:

the erection of a new chancel, organ chamber and vestry was completed in 1910 at a cost of over £1,000:

there are 200 sittings"

DB 2020

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"The Church (Holy Cross) is an ancient fabric, which was partly rebuilt about 55 years ago, and has a short but very broad tower.

It is a discharged vicarage, valued in K.B. at £8, and now at £185, in the patronage of the Bishop of Lincoln, and incumbency of the Rev. George Oliver, D.D. of Lincoln.

It has been augmented with £400 royal bounty.

The tithes are commuted for a yearly rent, varying with the price of corn"

DB 2020

Church Guide Notes by Rev. Hugh Bailey 1993 state :-

"The Chancel was entirely rebuilt in 1910. Lord and Lady Londesborough (Lord Londesborough was the the Patron of the Living who appointed the Vicar -- which Patronage is now in the hands of the Lord Chancellor) gave £600 towards the cost, and the parishioners raised another £300. The architect was Hodgson Fowler of Durham, who was also Architect to Lincoln Cathedral at that time"

DB 1 October 2022

Looking west towards the chancel arch and nave beyond.

DB 1 October 2022

Capital north side of chancel arch.

Pevsner comments " The capitals of the chancel arch are medieval. The S capital has stiff-leaf, the N capital a strange sort of hanging leaves"

DB 1 October 2022

An inscription in the bottom corner reads :- 

"In memory of Charles Hall Curate and Vicar of this parish 1857-1907, and Eleanor his wife. This window is dedicated by their children"

DB 1 October 2022

Church Guide Notes by Rev. Hugh Bailey 1993 state :-

"The Organ was installed shortly before the First World War and, since the Parish could not afford the sort of organ they really wanted, they ordered one with pedals and two keyboards, but with only the lower keyboard actually working — intending to add more pipes and upper keyboard action when they could afford them. But, in 1914, war broke out and by 1918 prices had risen enormously and there never was a chance to build the second half of the organ"

DB 1 October 2022

Wooden roof presumably dating from 1910 when the chancel was rebuilt.

DB 1 October 2022

C20 reredos behind the altar.

DB 1 October 2022

"War memorial. Carved in marble, it consists of a decorated circular Celtic wheel cross on a tapering plinth and two steps ...

It is not known exactly when this memorial was erected. It was originally dedicated to those men of the parish who died in the First World War and was then subsequently also dedicated to a single service man who died in the Second World War" 

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1391705

DB 2020

Looking west towards the triple chamfered tower arch.

C19 wooden pews. 

DB 1 October 2022

Looking east towards the chancel.

Church Guide Notes by Rev. Hugh Bailey 1993 state :- "The cross-stitch Pew-Kneelers were Dedicated in 1993 and were made in less than a year by various ladies of the Parish who wanted to donate them, often as memorials and these add a bit of colour to the grey stone and sombre woodwork". 

DB 1 October 2022

Looking across the nave towards the north arcade and north aisle.

DB 1 October 2022

Label stop north nave arcade.

DB 1 October 2022

Label stop north nave arcade.

DB 1 October 2022

Handsome wooden lectern.

DB 1 October 2022

"Remains of ornate C14 niche to south of chancel arch with crocketed gable and pinnacles"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064299?section=official-list-entry 

Nowadays a memorial with three Rolls of honour for the First and Second World Wars.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/54155 

DB 1 October 2022

"C19 stone pulpit"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064299?section=official-list-entry 

DB 1 October 2022

Looking east towards a wall monument in memory of Ann & Thomas Pears.

Kelly's Directory 1937 notes that in 1882 the nave was restored, and both aisles rebuilt at a cost of £700.

DB 1 October 2022

Looking west.

DB 1 October 2022

"IN MEMORY OF ANN, WIFE OF THOMAS PEARS, OF SCOPWICK LODGE, WHO DIED MAY 9TH A.D. 1851, AGED 82 YEARS.

ALSO IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE ABOVE NAMED THOMAS PEARS, WHO DIED FEBRUARY 15TH 1856, AGED 88 YEARS"

DB 1 October 2022

"Wall tablet in north aisle to Wm Pears 1856 with pilaster surround"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064299?section=official-list-entry 

DB 1 October 2022

Kelly's Directory 1937 notes "the south porch was rebuilt in 1884 as a memorial to Mrs. Hall, of Scopwick Vicarage".

DB 1 October 2022

Looking west towards the font.

DB 1 October 2022

Looking east towards an altar.

DB 1 October 2022

Altar at the east end of the south aisle.

DB 1 October 2022

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF ARTHUR WILLIAM HALL F.R.C.S.ED. OF DURBAN, NATAL. SECOND SON OF THE VICAR OF THIS PARISH. BORN 26TH MAY 1861 DIED 20TH MARCH 1900. FOR SOME YEARS SURGEON TO THE DURBAN LIGHT INFTRY. HE DIED OF ENTERIC FEVER WHILE ON ACTIVE SERVICE DURING THE BOER WAR. HIS BODY LIES IN THE CHURCHYARD AT MOOI RIVER"

DB 1 October 2022

Church Guide Notes by Rev. Hugh Bailey 1993 state :-

"Near the Font there is an ancient stone Coffin Lid with the effigy of a knight in armour — a 14th Century knight, according to Henry Thorold. Pevsner, more cautiously, says 'not at all the usual type.' Bonney's Church Notes of 1845 ascribe the knight to the Daincourt family, who owned Blankney"

DB 1 October 2022

"C13 octagonal stone font"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064299?section=official-list-entry 

DB 1 October 2022

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF PTE. JOHN WILLIAM WATSON, 6TH LEICESTER REGT. KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE, SEPT 16TH 1918. AGED 21 YEARS.

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY HIS FATHER AND MOTHER. R.I.P."

DB 1 October 2022

"West tower 3-stage with moulded and chamfered plinth, second stage band, and flat set-back buttresses with set-offs.

West side has a blocked doorway with a small chamfered lancet above, the third stage has a cross mullion bell opening with side shafts.

South side has a similar bell opening and below a C19 clock face"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064299 

DB 28 January 2019

Church Guide Notes by Rev. Hugh Bailey 1993 state :-

"The upper part of the Tower is 17th Century work, typically plain and workmanlike; rectangular windows, divided into four by one plain upright and one cross-piece. There is a date on the west side of the tower, carved in the stonework near the top and not very easy to read from ground level; it says: 1668 H S"

DB 1 October 2022

C19 clock face on south side of tower.

DB 28 January 2019

"Public house. Early C18 and early C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1280648

Both a beerhouse and The Royal Oak listed in White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 :-

Bottomley John, beerhouse

Christian Robt. vict. Royal Oak

DB 28 January 2019

Former village school, near the corner of Vicarage Lane and Main Street, appears to have been incorporated as part of the Limes Care Home.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1866, on a site given by Viscount Chaplin, for the parishes of Scopwick & Kirkby Green ; it will hold 90 children ; Arthur Breeze, master"

"New buildings were opened, and the old buildings renovated in 1966. The school was closed on 19 December 1980"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/SCOPWICK-CE-SCHOOL/717525.record?pt=S 

DB 28 January 2019 

Staff and pupils of Scopwick Primary School, probably c.1960.

David Robinson Collection

Located on Trundle Lane near Grid Reference TF073584.

"The Seated Lady at Scopwick was created as part of North Kestven District Council's New Milestones Scheme.

It was carved by Rosie Bradshaw and represents a tree spirit or Dryad.

This scheme has been adopted by artsNK, as part of its public art development programme, adding interest to Visitors experience and reflecting some of the stories that make the area special"

DB 2020

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel & associated Sunday School.

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 it is stated that :-

"A Society was formed in 1836 and the first chapel built in 1840.

Adjacent land was purchased in 1901 and the chapel demolished on Easter Monday, 1905.

Stone laying for a new chapel on the enlarged site, 79 Main Road, was held on the 10.5.1905 and the building opened on the 26.7.1905.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 14"  

DB 28 January 2019 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "The Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1905, affords 150 sittings"

DB 28 January 2019

Detail of inscription above the main entrance.

"WESLEYAN CHAPEL 1905" 

DB 28 January 2019

The mill is shown here in the course of conversion into a dwelling.

Location of mill: TF 058 576

Peter Kirk Collection, 2003

This four-sailed mill, with five floors was built in 1827 on Scopwick Heath.

It was worked until shortly before the First World War.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph c.1912

The tower is listed Grade II. It is shown here shortly before conversion into a dwelling.

Location of mill: TF 058 576

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

The final twenty-first century conversion of the mill into residential accommodation.

Jon Sass Collection, July 2015