Looking towards east end of the nave and blocked chancel arch. 

Kelly's Directory 1930 reports :-

"The church of St. Nicholas, standing on rising ground, is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of clerestoried nave of five bays and aisles, an especially beautiful south porch and embattled western tower with pinnacles containing 6 bells :

the chancel was pulled down in 1706 and has never been rebuilt :

there are two carved screens, one of which, under the arch which separates the tower from the nave, is nearly perfect, and has carved upon the solid heading of its doorway the legend: "Orate p. anima Johannis Dideck senior et uxor eius ;" the other, under the chancel arch, is enriched with colour and gilding:

the eastern portions of both aisles are also inclosed with screen work to form chapels: each of these retains its piscina: at the west ends of the aisles are other portions of screens once inclosing these:

the font is coeval with the church:

the windows of the north aisle retain fragments of ancient stained glass, including several figures of angels and ecclesiastics, and a new west window was erected about 1895:

the parapet of the porch is adorned with gracefully carved foliage, and the apex of the gable bears a crucifix with richly foliated terminals: the sides and angles are supported by buttresses terminating in pinnacles, and the parapet is panelled: within the porch is a stoup, and above it a niche, and another niche appears over the doorway :

on the north side are six handsome buttresses, surmounted by pinnacles adorned with fretwork, and bearing grotesque figures holding scrolls :

in 1875 the church was reseated and partially repaired by public subscription: there are about 250 sittings:

the base and part of the shaft of a cross remain in the churchyard"

DB 11 September 2022

Looking east towards the inscribed chancel arch.

The inscription reads "TEACH ME TO DO THY WILL FOR THOU ART MY GOD THY SPIRIT IS GOOD LEAD ME IN TO THE LAND OF UPRIGHTNESS"

Mention is made in the Historic England listing of "3 brass 2 tier candelabra" however these were no longer in evidence.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359462 

DB 23 September 2021

Looking across the nave and into the north aisle.

"Mid C12 north arcade of 4 bays with round piers and columnar responds with plain moulded capitals.

Double chamfered round arches with chipstar decoration and small rosettes in spandrels"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062909 

DB 3 November 2018

Looking east towards the broad C14 chancel arch.

"C20 pews, altar rail and pulpit. C19 roofs"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063076 

DB 8 September 2019

The 12th century north arcade has sturdy piers and round arcades with Norman billet and zigzag decoration.

May 2015

View towards the chancel showing the fine quatrefoil piers of both arcades.

April 2018

View looking east towards the chancel.

"C19 pitch pine pews"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061829 

DB 21 December 2018

Church opened for the West Lindsey Churches Festival. There was a flower display "Celebrating 25 years of the festival".

DB 8 May 2022

View through an exterior window across the nave.

Church decorated for a wedding. 

DB 21 March 2020

The chancel arch is very similar to the tower arch and the arches of the three-bay north and south arcades follow the same style of the fourteenth century.

October 2017

The four-bay arcade with quatrefoil pillars dates from the Decorated period.

June 2017

The plain but decidedly calm and attractive interior of St Helen's.

The two minute vestries either side of the altar are reminiscent of confessional boxes.

September 2015

The interior of St Margaret's looking east shortly before demoliltion.

Naomi Field, 1984

A view into the chancel showing the Perpendicular rood screen.

Mark Acton, 2021 

The view down the nave towards the chancel with the 5-bay north arcade (left) of the Norman period. The 4-bay arcade to the right is about a century later in date.

August 2021 

View looking east towards the rood screen and chancel arch.

"C14 double chamfered chancel arch with octagonal responds"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1194848 

DB 12 November 2018

A wide-angle view of the nave and chancel looking east.

The arcades particularly impressed Pevsner. That to the north (left) dates from the late twelfth century; the south arcade (right) is of similar date but in different style.

September 2018

The north arcade (to the left) is essentially Norman - though heavily restored in 1860 by J H Hakewill.

The south arcade (to the right) is of similar date (piers and capitals) but the arches are later.

Pevsner is dismissive of Hakewill's chancel arch.

August 2016

The interior of St Swithin showing the retained medieval N and S arcades and the colourful Gothick screen between nave and chancel, a most unusual feature.

May 2013

The view towards the east end of the church shows the splendid Gothick screen and the medieval three-bay arcades.

September 2018

Looking east towards the chancel.

Kelly's Directory 1930 reports :-

"The church of All Saints is a building of stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with eight pinnacles and containing 6 bells, dating from 1632 to 1829, and a very curious clock, said to be at least 200 years old, but a new clock, presented by the Rev. Canon A. F. Sutton, rector of Brant Broughton, was put up in 1899:

the piers of the arcades and the doorway of the south porch, richly adorned with the chevron, dog-tooth and nail-head ornaments, are Early English:

the north doorway is also a rich example of Norman, but the church is principally of the Perpendicular period:

at the east end of each aisle are statue-brackets, and in the vestry is the recumbent stone effigy of a lady of the 14th century:

the church was restored in 1857-8, under the direction of Mr. M. C. Baily, of Newark, when the tower arch was opened, the interior reseated and a screen and several stained windows erected; and in 1888 further restoration and decoration was carried out under the supervision of Mr. Hodgson Fowler, architect; the total cost amounted to £784, and in 1900 further considerable alterations and improvements were made:

there are 359 sittings" 

DB 29 October 2022

View looking east towards the chancel.

War memorial beneath flag on right. 

C19 chancel arch.

DB 3 September 2018

The 3-bay Early English arcades, with octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches, were retained from the old church for the restoration in 1862.

September 2015

Looking east towards the C14 chancel arch.

DB 13 September 2018

The nave of All saints, Benington, looking towards the chancel.

Undated postcard published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd. 

"C15 screen very heavily restored in 1905 with C15 moulded wood vertical supports and horizontal rail, C19 cusped traceried panels, re-using C15 rosettes, 6 C19 statues alternating with coats of arms.

C19 wood cross above central archway"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063091 

DB 9 September 2018

Looking east from the crossing into the chancel.

DB 1 September 2022

View looking west. The large west window of the Decorated period has four lights and reticulated tracery.

The south arcade has four bays - the north three - with double-chamfered arches.

October 2017

View of the church interior looking east. The south arcade (right) dates from the thrteenth century, the north (left) from the fourtheenth.

April 2018

The arcade on the north side of the nave (left), with octagonal piers, dates from the fourteenth century.

September 2018

Looking east towards the chancel.

White's Directory 1872 states :-

"St. Mary's Church, formerly a small plain structure, was pulled down in 1867, and the present handsome Gothic one rebuilt on its site, at a cost of £5,500.

It consists of nave, chancel, aisles, porch, and tower containing three bells and a clock, surmounted by a spire.

In the church are four beautiful stained glass windows, and there are sittings for 560 souls.

The benefice is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £10. 4s. 2d. St. Gabriel's vicarage, valued in K.B. at £8, is now consolidated with St. Mary's rectory, and the joint benefices are now valued at about £310, in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor, and the incumbency of the Rev. John Thomas Huntley, M.A., J.P. The Rev. James Seller is the curate"

DB 3 September 2023

Looking east towards the chancel. 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of St. Peter is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells:

the interior was rearranged and refitted in 1868, when a new font of Caen stone was presented and an organ purchased by subscription, at a cost of £400:

on the north side of the chancel is a small mortuary chapel and in the tower is an ancient stone coffin of unknown date:

the church was restored in 1892 at an estimated cost of £200:

there are 200 sittings.

The register, including Atterby, dates from the year 1598.

The living is a vicarage, with that of Atterby annexed, joint net yearly value £240, including 207 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and held since 1879 by the Rev. Christopher Harrison R.A. of Clare College, Cambridge, rural dean of Aslackhoe and chaplain of St. Edmund's Spital"

DB 12 May 2019

Looking east towards the chancel. 

Kelly's Directory 1930 states :-

"The church of St. Mary Magdalen is an edifice of stone, in the Gothic and Norman styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower, which was restored in 1923, with spire, containing 3 bells :

there are two stained windows and an ancient font, on which is a shield bearing the instruments of the Passion:

the church was restored in 1873, at a cost of £635, and affords 100 sittings"

DB 3 June 2023

Looking east towards the chancel.

Kelly's Directory 1930 states :-

"The church of St. Oswald is a building of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and an embattled western tower with eight pinnacles and containing 6 bells:

the church was rebuilt about 1820, and restored in 1879-80, under the direction of Messrs. Carpenter and Ingelow, at a cost of about £3,000, when the north aisle and chancel were lengthened, and the porch, with its ancient archway, rebuilt:

the organ was presented by Lady Florence Chaplin ;

the reredos was designed by the late Temple Moore, the altar cloth and frontal, purchased at Seville by the Rev. John O. Stephens M.A. late rector 1879-1903, are 16th century work, and were presented by him to the church:

the east window, together with a monument with statue in white marble, executed by the late Sir J. E. Boehm bart. R.A. are memorials to Lady Florence, daughter of George, 3rd Duke of Sutherland K.G. and wife of Viscount H. Chaplin; she died October 10, 1881;

the lych-gate, erected from a design by G. F. Bodley esq. A.R.A., F.S.A. was presented by the late William Ellice (d. 1892), and Lady Jane Ellice, his wife:

there are 200 sittings"

DB 10 August 2023

View looking west through the chancel arch. The arcades have three bays with octagonal piers.

October 2017

Looking east towards the early C13 chancel arch.

Early C13 north and south arcades of 3 bays.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064159 

DB 20 May 2018

Looking east towards the chancel.

DB 5 June 2023

Looking east towards the chancel.

"The survival of the Victorian pews is remarkable - they are by George Gilbert Scott and the parish is to be congratulated for keeping them"

https://www.bostonpreservationtrust.com/holy-trinity-church.html 

DB 3 August 2019

The chancel of St Botolph's church.  The choir stalls with misercords date from the late 14th century.

The canopies over the stalls were constructed in the 1850s.

March 2013

View of the interior of St Botolph's looking east.

In the foreground is the Victorian font designed by Pugin in 1853.

There are seven-bay arcades between the nave and both aisles.

undated postcard

The nave retains the Norman arcades of the 12th century abbey church, although the north aisle was restored by Edward Browning in 1868-9.

October 2017

Interior view looking west, showing the arches and half-arches of c.1300.

Originally the nave and aisles embraced the tower but in changes dating from the 18th century the church was reduced in size and the tower arch was modified.

September 2014

The polygonal chancel was built by Charles Kirk in 1859 and has Victorian stained glass by Kempe.

September 2014

Looking east towards the altar.

DB 20 February 2019

The chancel arch dates from the 13th century.

September 2013

Chancel was completely rebuilt after a fire in 1962.

Architect was George Pace of York who re-used the 3 arched sedilia.

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

Stained glass in east window "The Glory Behind The Cross " by Kieth New

https://c20society.org.uk/publications/c20-magazine/obituary-keith-new/ 

DB 1 December 2018

View looking east towards the chancel.

Well before the fire of 1962 which destroyed the chancel Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 described the church :-

"The church of All Saints is a building of stone, in the Early Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles and lofty spire, containing a clock with two dials and 6 bells :

the chancel arch affords a very fine example of Early English work, the clerestory and roof are Perpendicular:

the chancel has triple sedilia, and a piscina of the Early English period and the tower a doorway of Norman date:

in the north aisle is a very fine monument to Sir Cecil Wray bart. d. May, 1736, and Dame Mary (Harrison), his wife, and there are others to the Vere and Bertie families :

a large vestry was erected in 1836 by the. Rev. Peregrine Curtois, rector from 1815:

the chancel was rebuilt in 1864 by the Rev. Atwill Curtois, then rector, who also executed the carved work at the top of the chancel screen; which has been adorned with finely-carved panels, the work of Miss Ellen Curtois :

the church was restored in 1875-6 under the superintendence of the late Sir George Gilbert Scott R.A. when the tower arch was opened and a new north aisle erected :

in 1895 the spire was restored and the four old bells, with two new bells, were rehung in new iron framing :

the stained east window is a memorial to Robert Smith esq. inserted by Eustace A. Smith esq. of Longhills:

during 1911-14 repairs were effected to the roof of the nave, south aisle and the tower stone work :

the church affords 450 sittings"

DB 1 December 2018

Interior view looking east.

Note the elaborate font cover, on the right hand side of the image, by T Garner 1889.

Excellent guide available :-

http://sthelensbrantbroughton.org.uk/a-short-guide/ 

DB 2 July 2018

Looking east towards the C19 chancel arch.

White's Directory 1872 records "The Church (St. Cuthbert), which is a neat stone structure, consisting of nave, chancel, north aisle, transept, and a small tower and spire, with three bells, was built in 1859, in lieu of the previous one, which was very ancient, at the expense of the Rev. William Wright and the Rev. John Carr.

In the chancel is an ancient credence table, and the reredos, which is of alabaster, is in memory  of the two sons of S. W. Wright, Esq.

In the east end is a memorial window of stained glass, to Miss Mary Wright, and another in the south side of the chancel to Henrietta de Coetlogon"

DB 14 May 2023

Looking east towards the chancel.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of St. John the Evangelist, situated in the centre of the town, and rebuilt in 1842-3 on the site of the earlier church, at an expense of about £2,700, is a building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, north and south porches and an eastern tower, with pinnacles, containing 6 bells:

the bells were retuned and hung in a new frame in 1912:

the stained west window was erected in 1894 as a memorial to the late Rev. Philip Henry Brierly M.A. vicar 1879-93:

the sedilia were presented in 1893 by Albert Cressey esq.:

part of the outside stone work was restored in 1893 at a cost of £200, and the remainder in 1911 at a cost of £142, and the south porch restored in 1896:

there are 450 sittings"

DB 16 December 2018

Plastering and painting have obscured some of the church's features. The Georgian pulpit, communion rails and east wall panelling are difficult to appreciate in this view towards the chancel.

Chris Squires, September 2023
 

In this view down the nave towards the west the narrowness of the building is apparent.

Pews are barely long enough for 4 adults and the organ stool nearly encroaches on the centre aisle.

An attractive rose window brings light to the gallery.

Chris Squires, 2023

Looking east towards the chancel. 

Pevsner states that :-

"arcades of c. 1300. Both are of four bays and both have low double-chamfered arches.

Quatrefoil piers on the n side with deep continuous hollows between the foils, octagonal piers on the s"

No chancel arch. 

DB 31 August 2019

Looking east towards the chancel.

Kelly's Directory 1930 reports :-

"The church of SS. Peter and Paul; conspicuous both from its size and commanding position, is a building of Portland stone, almost wholly of Late Perpendicular date, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave of five bays, with embattled parapet, aisles, north and south porches and a fine massive western tower, with turret on the south-east, enriched canopied niches on its western face, and terminating in a parapet with ornamental finials, surmounted by 16 iron crosses and containing a clock and 8 bells, the third and fifth of which were added in 1616, by the devise of Mr. John Holden, and the tenor, the gift of Mr. John Dawson, in 1860:

from the summit of the tower a very extensive view is obtained over the broad flat marshy district around:

the eastern portion of the aisles once formed chantry chapels, but the screens enclosing them were removed about 1865, and portions are ,now attached to the chancel walls ; a chancel screen, partly consisting of the old carved oak, was erected in 1891, at a cost of £100:

the pulpit, dating from 1623, is a good example of its time, and was also the result of Mr. Holden's bequest :

on the north wall is a brass inscribed with a most singular interrogatory epitaph to Leonard Palmer, gent. ob. 1610, his wife Catherine, two sons and three daughters:

the font has a beautifully carved oak canopy of the same date and design as the pulpit :

the lectern, carved by Mr. Good, a local artist, was presented by subscription in 1874:

the organ was the gift of the Rev. W. G. Tozer D.D. successively bishop of Zanzibar, Jamaica and Honduras, and vicar of Burgh 1857-63:

the church was reseated in 1889:

the south wall was rebuilt and the south aisle reroofed in 1909:

in 1912 a carved reredos was placed in the church and in 1919 two beautiful stained glass windows were added:

a side chapel, enclosing a Jacobean screen, was erected in 1924 as a private memorial of the Great War 1914-18, by the vicar, Rev. Gerald Hollidge Harries M.C., MA.: there are 520 sittings"

DB 11 September 2022

View looking east towards the chancel.

The nave and aisle walls have unusual elaborate carved stone texts of dating from the 1871 restoration, some of which have Gothic surrounds and details.

https://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/explore-churches/st-helen-burgh-on-bain?map_link=true 

DB 9 September 2018

Notes to follow

Looking east towards the chancel. The 3-bay south arcade, seen here, has octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches of the Early English period.

September 2016

Looking west along the nave. In the facing wall is a small window of the Norman period with deep splay.

September 2016

Looking east past the font and towards the chancel.

Jean Howard, August 2020

Interior of the nave and chancel at St Michael's.  It is largely the Victorian reconstruction of 1835 but the chancel arch responds contain some medieval material.

June 2013

Interior looking east towards the chancel.

Reset C14 chancel arch.

DB 9 June 2018

Looking east towards the chancel.

Illumination possible using the many suspended oil lamps. 

DB 17 June 2018

The chancel, which was restored in 1821, has an east window with 15th century panel tracery.

September 2014

Interior view looking east towards the C13 chancel arch.

White's Directory 1872 notes :-

"The Church (St. Nicholas) is an ancient structure. The lower part of the tower is of Anglo-Norman architecture, and there is a large arch of the same style, opening into the nave, but most other parts of the fabric are in the Decorated style.

The font has a square base and octagonal bowl.

The east window is a fine specimen of the architecture of the reign of Edward III., and has in its upper divisions some beautifully-painted glass.

Part of the tower fell through the roof of the nave in 1630, but the whole was restored in 1633, at the cost of John Palmer.

The rectory, valued in K.B. at £13. 1s. 5d., has 40 acres of glebe, and a yearly corn rent of £380, awarded in lieu of tithes, in 1839"

DB 12 February 2024

"Very tall C13 chancel arch, with to north fragmentary remains of original arcade and chapel arch"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360553 

DB 13 June 2018

"Inside, the C13 nave is divided down the middle by a 2 1/2 bay arcade supported on slender octagonal piers with circular capitals"

"At the west end of the nave is a C17 pillar type poor box with a contemporary painted board"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317320 

DB 25 April 2018

General view of the interior looking east towards the chancel and the east window of 1924.

September 2018

View looking east towards the chancel.

C19 pews.

DB 24 September 2018

The chancel of All Hallows has Decorated windows and an ogee-headed sedile (on the right).

May 2011

Looking east towards the chancel.

"The chancel arch is pointed but with the late Norman square abacus"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1164829 

C19 script above the chancel arch. 

DB 9 May 2018

The nave of St John the Baptist, Colsterworth, showing the original roof line.

Mark Acton, 2017

The Norman north arcade, probably mid-12th century.

March 2017

Looking east towards the chancel.

The low 5-bay arcades date from the Early English period, with in some places, stiff-leaved capitals.

April 2016

There are traces of 13th century arcades in the north walls of both nave and chancel, suggesting that this was once a much larger building.

The font is 12th century.

June 2015

Looking east towards the chancel.

"The C13 double chamfered chancel arch, dying to the reveals, has beside it the doorway to the rood loft"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1309158 

DB 27 June 2018

Looking east towards the chancel with the curtains forming the division. 

"The nave roof is a C19 timber barrel vault, but is supported on massive C15 braced ties ...

The nave walls are lined with C18 raised and fielded dado panelling. "

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063109 

DB 8 September 2019

The short chancel is thought to have been built in the late fifteenth century.

September 2017

The north arcade of three bays dates from the Norman period. Round arches are surmounted by a billet mould.

June 2017

Looking east.

The stately font dominates the west end of the central aisle. The altar at the east end of the nave is now used since concerns have grown about the cracks in the north wall of the chancel.

Jean Howard 17 February 2024

Looking east towards the chancel.

The rear part of the church has been cleared to make a more flexible space. 

DB 19 February 2019

Interior of the west tower built over the north aisle of the abbey church in the fifteenth century.

July 2011

The north aisle of St Oswald's dates from a rebuild of 1792 and a later restoration in 1884.

August 2015

The chancel arch at All Saints is early 12th century, with chamfered imposts and a single-stepped arch.

Mark Acton 2014

Arcades survive on both north and south sides of the nave, though the aisles of the 13th and 14th centuries have long gone.

June 2014

The view looking east to the chancel and the sanctuary.

September 2021

The interior looking east towards the chancel.

Mark Acton, 2017

The plain chancel of St Andrew's church.

July 2012

Christmas tree festival in progress.

23 December 2015

View through an external window, from the south aisle, across the nave and into the north aisle.

"2 bay double chamfered nave arcades, with to the south, an octagonal pier and responds, and to the north a quatrefoil shafted pier decorated with dogtooth and keeled shafted responds"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1254085 

DB 8 June 2020

Looking east towards the chancel.

"All fittings are C19 or C20, including the chancel screen of 1912"

https://https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064139 

DB 23 March 2020

Interior view looking east.

The entire church, apart from the west tower, was rebuilt 1874-6 following a fire in 1873. 

Rebuilding work costing £4,700 was mainly paid for by the Marquess of Ripon who was Lord of the Manor.

Pews are made of pitch pine. 

DB 25 June 2018

The interior of St Micael's church, looking into the chancel.

The reticulated tracery of the east window is in typical style of the Decorated period (early 14th century).  It is of course part of Teulon's 1848 restoration.

July 2012

Looking east towards the chancel. 

"The interior has pews, screen, brass lectern and font all dating from C19 and stained glass in the east window by W. Wailes dated 1846"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317217 

DB 20 May 2018

General view from the nave looking east.

May 2018

Looking east towards the C19 chancel arch.

DB 6 February 2020

Looking east towards the chancel.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of St. Andrew, situated on an eminence, is a building of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, north and south porches, and a fine embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 bells:

the entrance to the rood loft remains and portions of the screen may be seen in the reading-desk ; some ancient stones in the north porch display the badge of Richard II. and the arms of Mowbray. Dukes of Norfolk, "Gules, a lion rampant, arg.":

the approach to the church is by a broad flagged causeway, flanked on each side by a row of trees:

the stained east window was inserted in 1878 as a memorial of the 35th year of the incumbency of the Hon. and Rev. Charles Dundas M.A. rector 1843-83; other windows in the chancel, aisles and the west end are also stained, including a window to the late Arthur Maw esq. and one to the late William Laughton and family:

in 1863 the aisles were new-roofed, the fittings renewed and the interior reseated, and the west gallery removed:

a new organ and choir stalls were placed in the chancel in 1890:

the church plate includes a mazer bowl of late 15th century work:

there are 353 sittings"

DB 9 August 2019

Looking east towards the chancel.

"The fittings are all C19 and include choir stalls, screen, pews and pulpit ... The east window has stained glass of Christ in Majesty, dedicated to Charles Cust tiled 1893"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064141 

DB 15 May 2011

Looking east, the chancel arch is late 13th century as are the shafts around the east window.

Jean Howard, April 2018

The interior of the small apsoidal chancel at St Andrew's, Farlesthorpe.

August 2013

Looking east towards the chancel.

Kelly's Directory 1930 notes :-

"The church of All Saints is a building of stone, chiefly in the, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, with some Norman remains, and consists of chancel with chantry chapel on the north, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, with crocketed spire and pinnacles and containing 3 bells, two of which bear the date 1569 and 1627:

the north aisle of two bays is Norman, and a fragment of Norman work remains beneath the pulpit, which is 15th century work :

the south aisle arcade is Decorated work of the late 13th century, but the windows of this aisle are Perpendicular, and to this period belong also the tower and spire:

the chancel was rebuilt in an inferior style in 1830:

in the chantry adjoining is an aumbry, and screen work of debased character partly encloses both:

some old bench ends remain, and there is a plain octangular font on a shafted pedestal:

in 1875 the church was thoroughly restored at a cost of £800, entirely defrayed by Richard Lucas esq. when the stalls and stall ends were renewed and the ends copied in facsimile of the originals :

there are 150 sittings"

DB 15 October 2022

The church once had aisles to the north and south and the arcades have been retained in the walls of the nave.

T R Leach Collection, undated postcard  

View from the east end of the nave into the chancel.

Chancel rebuilt in 1843 but retains a restored C14 sedilia and piscina. 

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1146568 

7 May 2012

Looking east towards the "Chancel arch with fine screen of c.1330" 

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062733 

"C14 3 bay north and south arcades"

DB 5 May 2018

Interior view looking east towards the tripartite lancet windows at the end fo the chancel.

August 2018

"Nave and chancel walls of red facing brick with flush ashlar bands and all rear arches are of polychromatic brick, and the cornice is dentillated. All fittings are C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063137?section=official-list-entry 

DB 7 August 2022

The interior view looking east towards the chancel.

This is clearly a Norman nave with 9-bay arcades on either side. Each bay is relatively narrow with short fat piers.

September 2021 

View of the interior looking west towards the tower.

Unusually, west and east window are of similar design and size. The large windows of the clerestory help create a very well-lit interior.

September 2021 

Looking east towards the chancel arch.

"north and south nave arcades of three bays,c1300, with double chamfered arches,standing on heavily recut round pillars with annular capitals ...

"Chancel arch was enlarged in 1888 to its present imposing C14 form and proportions" 

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166164 

DB 23 August 2009

Looking east towards the chancel arch.

DB 18 February 2020

Looking east towards the chancel.

C19 wooden pews. 

DB 8 September 2019

Looking east towards the chancel - nave and chancel both 1736-44.

"Semi-circular apse, galleries, original box pews and brass candelabrum.

Architect, Smith of Leicester"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147378 

"It was the reordering of the church in 2003/4 that gave provision for the installation of a circular dais to match the curve of the Georgian Apse, a new nave altar, extra lighting and a complete redecoration of the building"

http://gainsboroughchurches.org/wordpress/about-us/all-saints/history/ 

DB 19 June 2018

Organ case 1793 but extended in 1906 for a new organ.

Royal arms below post 1837.

Benefactions boards on either side of the west entrance. 

DB 19 June 2018

The church of St John the Divine in Ashcroft Road was built by Somers Clarke & Micklethwaite in 1881-82. and enlarged in 1902.

From the Album of Gainsboro' Views published by Amcoats & Co, Booksellers, Stationers & Printers, Lord Street, Gainsborough, c.1900?

The simple, uncluttered interior of St Mary's appears to have retained all the original furnishing and decoration.

August 2015

The interior furnishings including the ornate altar and painted triptych, are all 19th century.

The church has, however, a 12th century drum font.

September 2015

Looking east. The chancel arch is flanked by tapered Ionic pilasters.

The simple timber pews date from the nineteenth century but the two-decker pulpit and vicar's pew, from Skelton,Yorkshire, are from an earlier period..

July 2017

Looking west. The church has a tiny gallery.

July 2017

Church website states that Saint Peters "is a small brick building, restored in 1888 when a west porch was added, with seating for around 50 people".

Paired lancet windows with plate tracery. 

DB 5 February 2014 

Looking east, towards the chancel, from the gallery.

"The Church retains its Georgian family box pews, some of which feature brass plaques engraved with the names of the families who used to rent them"

http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Glentham/section.asp?catId=14159 

"The late C13 3 bay north and south arcades have octagonal piers"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165045 

DB 12 May 2019

Looking west from the chancel into the nave.

Mark Acton, 2023 

The interior of St Hugh's shows the simple timber-framed structure with tie beams.

The furnishings and stained glass are by Comper.

September 2010

View looking east towards the chancel.

"Pews, alter rail, pulpit and lectern of 1908"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063689 

DB 9 September 2018

White walls and modern lighting give a bright look to this rather windowless church - as appreciated in this view looking east.

The enormous thickness of the walls can be appreciated from the depth of the reveals of the three rectangular nave windows.

Jean Howard, February 2024  

From this view looking west we see the un-plastered chalk wall of the tower with a fourteenth-century arch.

Jean Howard, February 2024 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1937 states :-

DB 8 September 2019

Looking east towards the chancel.

DB 28 December 2018

Looking east towards the sanctuary.

Reported in the Church Guide that the church was "Victorianised in 1870 by James Fowler, the nave and chancel being converted into one"

C19 pews, pulpit and altar rail.

DB 15 May 2022

Looking east towards the altar.

"Chapel of Ease to Old Somerby and private chapel to the now demolished Great Humby Hall.

Originally built c.1680's but rebuilt 1754 and with minor alterations in 1876 and 1980"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253290  

DB 22 March 2019 

The earliest parts of St Nicholas's church are the Early English arcades, dating from circa 1200.

The chancel is basically Decorated, though much restored in the early 20th century.

July 2014 

Looking east towards the blocked chancel arch which contains a 5 light C19 window.

The medieval chancel collapsed and was not replaced. East end of the nave now serves as the chancel. 

DB 4 July 2022

This interior view towards the east end shows the seventeenth century communion rail from Foscott church, Buckinghamshire.

Mortice holes in the beams indicate that there was once a lower flat ceiling.

September 2011

Looking east, passed the font, towards the mid C13 chancel arch.

DB 6 February 2020

Looking from the nave into the chancel. Little of the rood screen is original.

Mark Acton, 2019 

The great height of the building is perhaps most striking in the chancel.

The tall panelled reredos is by Pugin & Pugin and the three rows of figures depict the seven Archangels above, then the four Evangelists, and on the bottom row St Norbert, St Thomas Aquinas, St Gilbert of Sempringham and St Hugh of Lincoln.

The purple drapes are because the photo was taken during Lent.

Jean Howard, March 2023

The west gallery was built by Canon Hawkins so that children would be able to see what was happening in the sanctuary during services.

Jean Howard, March 2023

The scale of this church is impressive at this first view from the porch. Although the side aisles are narrow the arcades are very high and the yet higher, brightly painted chancel arch leads the eye directly to the east end.

The guidebook states that much of the wall decoration was painted over in 1963, yet the church is still very ornate.

Every window has stained glass of good design and much interest.

Jean Howard, March 2023

A view of the interior of St Jasmes's from the south transept. The south aisle stretches ahead to the left, the nave to the right.

The unusual clerestory is clearly seen above the nave.

postcard, 1918

Interior view looking east.

Fittings are all C19 including the stone pulpit. 

DB 20 July 2018

The chancel at St Margaret's is of the Early English period with a later - possibly seventeenth century - east end.

September 2013

The chancel arch at St Margaret's is Norman - unmoulded and on plain imposts.

September 2013

Looking east from the centre of the nave. Most of the fittings, including the screen, date from the mid-nineteenth century work of Willson.

To the back left is the family chapel with monuments to the Heneage family. 

Jean Howard, c.2010

"C19 pews have re-used C16 ends and some back panels with florate terminals"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1215674 

DB 21 January 2019

The interior of St Andrew, Hannah, looking east, reveals box pews, a two-decker pulpit and Georgian altar rails. Also visible is the unusual Venetian east window.

September 2018

Looking east towards the chancel.

"Nave north arcade late C12, south arcade and south aisle early C13"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1187962 

DB 26 September 2018

View looking east into the chancel.

DB 8 May 2018   

Looking from the south aisle across to the nave.

The arches of the arcade are unusual - two pointed arches in Early English style and one semicircular in Norman style.

One pier is round and the other octagonal. 

DB 25 September 2018

Looking east towards the chancel arch and chancel.

"Tall, pointed chancel arch with inner moulded order supported by ornate corbels"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147392?section=official-list-entry 

The present church was built in 1870 by James Fowler. The previous church is described in White's Directory 1856 as "a small antique fabric".

DB 4 September 2022

The oldest feature of St Leonard's is the simple chancel arch which dates from the 11th century. It has chamfered imposts and the arch is unmoulded.

September 2015

The furniture and fittings inside the church date from the building of the church in 1840.

There are two box pews, with traceried decoration in the side panels, in north-east end of the nave. By oral tradition they are understood to have been for the Eve family (nearest the chancel) and the Cartwright family who were the chief tenants of the Chaplin landlords.

The boards either side of the chancel arch quote the Ten Commandments.

September 2020

Jean Howard, 30 March 2021

Looking east towards the chancel.

Kelly's Directory 1930 reports :-

"The church of SS. Peter and Paul is an ancient building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave and an embattled western tower with four pinnacles, containing 4 bells:

the entrance is at the west end, through the lower stage of the tower, and over the doorway are three pinnacles:

on a stone in the south side of the tower is an inscription from the 14th verse of the 14th chapter of Job, with the date April 30th, 1739:

the chancel and tower were restored in 1840, and the former has now a good east window and open oak roof:

in 1876 the church was new-roofed, new windows inserted and the south side rebuilt, at a cost of £600, under the direction of James Fowler esq. architect, of Louth:

there are 90 sittings.

A vestry was built, and an addition made to the churchyard in 1925, at the sole cost of Capt. the Hon. Gerald B. Portman.

There is a large and ancient stone sundial in front of the west entrance of the church" 

DB 2 March 2024

A view of the nave of Heckington St Andrew, looking towards the beautiful seven light East window.

Frank Robinson, 2011

The four-bay arcades are from the Decorated period. Restoration of the church took place in 1873.

June 2017

View looking east towards the chancel.

"Chancel arch, a re-used C14 pointed, chamfered arch, the inner order supported on polygonal corbels"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1307152 

Church Guide states that the carved oak pulpit was a gift from the family of Rev. G.Thackeray rector 1840 -1875. Cousin of William Makepeace Thackeray author of "Vanity Fair".

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

DB 3 September 2018

Looking east towards the chancel.

Kelly's Directory 1930 states :-

"The church of All Saints is a building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, north porch and a western tower, with pinnacles, containing 2 bells:

the body of the church is in the Late Decorated style, but the tower is Perpendicular :

the east window and several others are stained:

on the south side of the chancel are the remains of sedilia, now used as a credence :

the stone font bears the arms of the Monson family :

the lych gate was erected in 1896:

there are 220 sittings"

DB 6 March 2023

View looking east towards the chancel.

C20 pews. 

DB 9 November 2018

Five-bay arcades comprising circular columns, circular abaci and double-chamfered arches.

September 2018

The interior of the church is plastered and whitewashed, It has a hammerbeam roof structure with crossed braces.

September 2017

Looking east towards the tiny chancel.

August 2018

Looking east towards the C19 chancel screen.

"The late C13 3 bay arcades have double chamfered arches with octagonal piers and moulded capitals"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064035 

DB 12 September 2021

The pews were brought from the redundant church of St Andrew, Lincoln in the 1970s.

The altar table was constructed by the estate joiner G W Saunby.

The Perpendicular style east window dates from 1926.

May 2016

The walls of the south chapel have stencil decoration and texts created as part of the 1926 alterations introduced by Gamble.

May 2016

Looking east towards the early C13 chancel arch.

White's Directory 1872 notes :-

"The Church (St. Wilfred), consisting of nave, chancel, north aisle and chapel, porch and square tower with three bells, is an ancient structure, containing seveveral marble monuments of the Hussey family and nine stained glass windows presented by the late vicar, the Rev. Thomas Henry Coles, D.D."

DB 20 April 2023

The north arcade (left) has hexagonal piers with stiff-leaf capitals. The south arcade (right) has one round pier and two quatrefoil ones and mouolded capitals.

October 2017

The impressive east end has three tall thin lancet windows each flanked by shafts with carved foliage above.

May 2015

"Chapel of Ease, now redundant. 1847. Stephen Lewin"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1262706

Became redundant in 1972 and was Initially converted into a community and tourist information centre.

From 2002 it became an antiques shop.

https://www.horncastlenews.co.uk/news/antiques-shop-go-ahead-for-trinity-centre-1-846799

DB 19 December 2018

Looking east towards the early C13 chancel arch.

The Church Guide states "Seating, original pulpit and internal fittings were installed in 1845 at a cost of £560.00"

DB 26 June 2018

"The north arcade is c1300 with octagonal piers supporting pointed stepped and chamfered arches with moulded capitals"

"A C19 pierced stone screen in the Gothic style divides off the Thorold mortuary chapel at the east end of the north aisle"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062889 

DB 28 August 2018

The three-bay north arcade dates from c.1200. It has round piers with circular abaci. There are seats around the bases of the piers.

June 2017

The north arcade is early 15th century.

The chancel and the furnishings are all 19th century.

July 2014

The arcades are much later than most of the church exterior, 15th century rather than 13th.

September 2018

Looking east towards the chancel arch.

DB 7 September 2023

Looking east towards the C19 chancel arch.

C20 pews, pulpit and lectern. 

DB 27 July 2022

Looking east. 

"6 bay c.1200 nave arcades with round shafts, spurred bases, stiff leaf capitals, double chamfered arches"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1204941?section=official-list-entry 

The chancel was demolished in 1706 and the church now terminates at the east end of the nave. Chancel of neighbouring Addlethorpe Church also demolished at the same time and presumably by the same Rector.

DB 11 September 2022

The three-bay north arcade dates to the late twelfth century. The round piers have square abaci with nicked corners. The capitals have Norman upright leaves.

Mark Acton, 2018

This internal view of All Saints' looking east shows the slight misalignment of nave and chancel.

The Perpendicular niche in the east wall to the right of the window can be seen.

July 2016

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of St. Andrew is a fine building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 4 bells:

in the church are several ancient monuments and a brass, with canopy, to Sir Andrew Luttrell, ob. I390:

there is another brass effigy of a man in armour, c. 1430:

the stained east window is a memorial to W.H. Woodhouse:

in 1858 the church was entirely restored and an ancient Easter sepulcihre, previously in the chancel, removed to the east end of the north aisle ; and in 1866 the trustees of the estate erected new entrance gates of iron, with stone pillars and iron palisading at the approach to the churchyard from the Corby road:

here are 100 sittings"

DB 27 June 2018 

The view looking east towards the altar.

Jean Howard, January 2024

Looking east towards the chancel.

The church was restored in 1886-7, from when the bulk of the furnishings date.

A Perpendicular arch leads into the chancel.

Jean Howard, January 2024

Looking towards the C19 chancel arch.

DB 15 May 2022

The south arcade (on the right) has two bays and dates from the Early English period.

The Decorated East window can be seen at the end of the chancel. The window on the left (north wall of the nave) is from the same period.

May 2016

Church now closed for worship - this image taken through a window from the outside.

C19 wooden pews and pulpit. 

DB 19 March 2020

Church open for "Horncastle And Villages Churches Festival Weekend"

An exhibition relating to the First World war centenary was on display. 

Interior view looking east towards the chancel. 

DB 9 September 2018

View through a south window of the nave. The blocked north arcade with its quatrefoil piers can be seen ahead.

To the near right is the organ case.

October 2017

The plastered walls and lowered ceiling of the nave date from the nineteenth century restoration.

May 2016

The interior of the church of St Leonard, Kirkstead, showing the thirteenth century vaulting and the screen.

Frank Robinson, 2010

View looking east towards the chancel.

Interior dimly lighted by narrow Early English style lancet windows.

DB 10 October 2018

This photograph of the interior shows the Perpendicular windows of the chancel.

September 2011

Looking east towards the chancel. The arcades have six bays and date from the thirteenth century.

August 2018

View to the west. Circular piers have circular abaci and double-chamfered arches.

August 2018

"C19 baldachino over altar"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064050?section=official-list-entry 

DB 15 May 2022

Looking east towards the "C19 pointed moulded chancel arch on filleted responds"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346952

DB 8 February 2020

Looking east towards the C13 chancel arch.

DB 15 April 2022

Looking east towards the chancel.

DB 10 September 2023

The view towards the east shows the tunnel vaulting over the nave and the richly decorated tie beams. These features were all transferred from the Walmsgate chapel.

May 2016

View looking east towards the chancel.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states 

"In 1830 the church was thoroughly repaired, and was re-seated with open oak sittings in 1861, and has now 450 sittings. 

DB 16 September 2018

View from a former doorway above the tower arch. 

"Chancel arch, C19 with moulded capitals and bases. Ornate C19 wooden nave and chancel roofs supported on carved ashlar corbels"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261413 

The east end of the aisle was restored and chancel rebuilt by Edward Trollope, Suffragan Bishop of Nottingham and a noted antiquarian.

He was rector here 50 years from 1843 to 1893. Second cousin to the author Anthony Trollope

DB 3 May 2014

Looking east towards the rood screen and chancel arch.

"Chancel arch of c.1380 with pointed, double chamfered head and polygonal responds"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063692 

DB 29 June 2019

looking towards the C13 chancel arch. Pictured during the West Lindsey Churches Festival. 

DB 8 May 2022

Looking east towards the C14 chancel arch and chancel beyond.

Pews date from the 1879 restoration.

Figures visible from the "Host of Angels Experience" a millennium project designed to raise money for the church fabric fund. 

DB 21 June 2023

Tours of Lincoln Cathedral may include the gallery at the west end of the nave.

This fine view looking down the length of the nave is named after Sir Joseph Banks, Lincolnshire landowner, naturalist and explorer.

Looking east towards the chancel.

Rood by Sir (John) Ninian Comper.

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

DB 1 August 2019

Looking east towards the chancel.

DB 31 July 2019

Postcard with reverse side giving details of Services to be held on Tuesday, February 18th - Assembly for Outdoor Service 7 p.m. & Mission Service 8 p.m..

St Peter-at-Gowts mission church in Vernon Street was demolished in the late 1970's. Today house No's 23 & 25 stand in its place.

Photograph and block by Harrison, Photographer, Lincoln. 

Ruddock's Directory of the City of Lincoln 1919 states :-

"ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH is a stone edifice of Gothic architecture. It has two aisles and a large chancel, designed by Mr. J. FOWLER, of Louth.

The chancel has been gorgeously decorated at the cost of the former owner of the site Rev. F. SWAN.

The foundation stone of the present church was laid by Bishop WORDSWORTH, on St. Andrew's Day, 1875. The site for the church was given by Prebendary SWAN and the Bishop contributed a large portion of the fabric of the original church of St. Martin, Lincoln, now to be seen in the arches of the south aisle.

The building was consecrated on 21 May, 1878. The organ was opened on 4 March, 1881.

For the first five years of its existence the church remained as a district church to St. Peter-at-Gowts, until the parish of St. Andrew was formed.

In 1890, a side chapel was added to the church in memory of Canon VERNON HUTTON, who spent the last years of his ministry in helping at St. Andrew's. This chapel was completed and decorated by the kindness of the Rev. P. R. LLOYD, and was dedicated on 14 July, I894. The oak screen at the entrance of the chapel is in the fifteenth century style of Gothic architecture, and was designed by Mr. W. D. PRATT, architect, Nottingham.

The living is a vicarage held since 1917 by the Rev. ROBERT WALKER WATT, M.A."

Undated postcard

Interior view looking east in what was the original chancel.

Medieval building was badly damaged during the English Civil War. Only the original chancel and north chapel remain. 

Saved from demolition in 1930s by public subscription. 

Now headquarters of The Lincoln Diocesan Mothers' Union. 

http://www.lincolnmothersunion.com/ 

DB 12 April 2018

Looking north towards the chancel (Church is oriented north/south).

The present St George's Church was opened in 1960 replacing a previous mission church built in 1917. 

The "Directory of the City of Lincoln" 1919 published by J.W. Ruddock & Sons referring to Swallowbeck states :- 

"Here is St. George's Mission Church, the Rev. Thomas Hamilton, B.A., vicar Skellingthorpe, conducts the services"

also

"SWALLOWBECK Services, Sunday, 10.45 a.m. and 6 p.m."

DB 15 January 2018

The interior of the church of St John Baptist, Ermine, Lincoln, which was designed by local architect Sam Scorer and opened in 1963.

Scorer's design, with its central sanctuary, was based on the ideas of the New Churches Research Group, formed in 1957.

The colourful window in the east wall was designed by Keith New at the Royal College of Art.

undated postcard

Looking east towards the chancel with an Advent Wreath Festival in progress.

Pevsner comments " Lofty interior with a narrow N aisle. Bodley's arcade has quatrefoil piers with continuous hollows between the foils and with fillets".  

DB 10 December 2018

The interior of the chancel of St Nicholas's Church is unusually open and bright .

Scott's original church of 1838-39 had no chancel, but one was added by C Hodgson Fowler in 1909.  It recently been refurbished.

September 2013

Looking west.

"Nave has 5-bay arcades with octagonal piers, double chamfered arches, and shaft imposts to west.

Clerestory sill band and panelled gabled ceiling"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388727 

DB 8 November 2018

View looking east towards the chancel.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The modern church of St. Swithin, standing on the site of the old Sheep square, was begun in 1870:

the nave and chancel were built in 1880, at a cost of £11,900, and the tower and spire were completed and the church dedicated in 1888, at a further cost of £6,350; the fabric, as now standing, is of Lincoln and Ancaster stone, in the Decorated style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, vestry, organ chamber, south porch and a western tower with pinnacles and spire rising to a height of 200 feet and containing one bell :

the tower forms a memorial to the late Joseph Shuttleworth esq. and was built at the sole expense of his son, Alfred Shuttleworth esq. of Eastgate House"

DB 28 December 2012

Nave looking towards the chancel. 

"All fittings are C19, the chancel screen was erected in 1911"

https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166212 

DB 12 May 2018

Looking east towards the chancel.

DB 8 April 2019

The chancel of the abandoned church.

Naomi Field, 1991

Looking east towards the chancel.

"Mid C14 north and south three bay arcades, the north arcade being a little later"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1267204?section=official-list-entry 

DB 4 September 2022

View from the chancel and into the nave.

"Chancel screen has partial medieval frame, all decoration C19"

"Evidence of C13 roof pitch on west wall"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253207

DB 25 March 2019

Looking east towards the chancel.

"C13 3 bay south arcade with double chamfered arches with clustered piers, 4 keeled and stiff leaf capitals. 3 bay north arcade c.1300 with double chamfered arches and plainer moulded capitals"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253207?section=official-list-entry 

Church Guide Notes state that "The church was restored and reseated in 1879 at an outlay of over £1000 half of which was contributed by Earl Brownlow". 

White's Directory 1872 reports " The church (St. John the Baptist), which consists of nave, aisles, chancel, vestry and tower, with three bells, is a small structure in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, containing about 160 sittings, and a recumbent effigy of a Knight Templar"

DB 25 May 2023

Looking east towards the chancel.

With the centenary of the Armistice approaching many hand knitted poppies can be seen decorating the screen and pulpit, some carrying the names of people involved in the first world war.

Early C13 pointed chancel arch.

DB 31 October 2018 

Looking east from the nave towards the chancel. 

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"Long Sutton CHURCH (St. Mary) is a neat structure, with a spire of framed work covered with lead, rising from a lofty tower to the height of 162 feet, and serving as a sea-mark to mariners in the Wash.

It has lately been repaired and much improved and beautified at the expense of the parishioners, the Vicar, and Allen's charity.

Two handsome new windows have been inserted, and many additional seats provided.

It has five bells, an excellent organ, and a beautiful octagonal font; and in one of its windows is some ancient stained glass, representing a knight in armour, being stung by a serpent.

The vicarage, valued in K.B. at £40, and now at £600, is in the patronage of the Trustees of the late Vicar, the Rev. T. L.Bennett; and is now in the incumbency of the Rev. Edward Leigh Bennett, M.A., who has a large Vicarage House, half a mile from the town"

DB 28 April 2012

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 

DB 8 September 2019

Looking east towards the chancel arch and chancel. 

An entry in Kelly's Directory 1930 reads :-

"The church of St. Peter is a small building of stone in the Norman style, with later insertions, consisting of chancel, nave and a turret containing one bell:

the north and south doorways are blocked up ; the former is enriched with the chevron ornament:

in the north wall of the chancel is a curious little key-hole light, and in the south wall a low side window:

the interior retains a Perpendicular screen, and there is a brass, c. 1600, with eight English rhyming lines, in the form of an address to a deceased wife by her surviving husband:

the church was restored in 1892 and affords 80 sittings.

In the churchyard is a memorial of Portland stone, erected in 1920, to the men of Lusby who served in the Great War, 1914-18"

DB 4 September 2022

'4-bay nave arcades of ashlar with moulded arches, quatrefoil piers and moulded capitals.

July 2019

General interior view looking east with the font in the foreground.

The nave dates from c.1300 and the windows are in Early English style.

Naomi Field, 1995

Looking east towards the chancel.

DB 4 May 2019

View from the organ gallery.

"Nave arcades are of 4 bays, C14, with double chamfered arches, octagonal piers, floriate capitals and responds"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1215809 

DB 12 September 2021

Interior looking east.

The box pews date from 1780. The chancel has recesses showing a blocked window each side. The east window is a pointed fifteenth century opening. A hatchment is suspended on the south wall.

Jean Howard 13 August 2021

The seats were said to be designed by Ewan Christian and came from a church in Surrey. Pevsner called the colour scheme 'battleship grey with pitch pine'.¹

¹ N. Pevsner & J. Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1964

 Postcard sent from Alford, 1920

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

Looking east towards the chancel. 

DB 5 September 2021

Looking east towards the chancel.

"Nave and chancel c. 1300 with Perpendicular west doorway and east window. Tower c. 1405. All heavily restored in 1862 by the Diocesan Architect James Fowler"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165917 

DB 1 June 2019

The interior of St Mary's is wide and spacious, well lit by the clerestory and the many fine Perpendicular windows, including the east window visible here.

September 2012

On the right, part of the 3-bay south arcade with its round piers and round abaci. Also can be seen one of the openings in the spandrels between the arches.

The north arcade on the left has quatrefoil piers and double chamfered arches.

March 2016

Looking east towards the chancel.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of the Holy Trinity, erected in 1876-8 on a site given by the Rev. J. W. King B.D. at a cost of £3000, from designs by Mr. T.H.Wyatt, of London, is a building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch, and a tower erected in 1911 at a cost of £650:

it has 237, sittings.

The register dates from the year 1876.

The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £210, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and held since 1916 by the Rev. Howard Charles Gibbons Robertson.

The vicarage was erected in 1912 on the site given by Capt. Nevill Henry Reeve-King"

DB 7 May 2019

This general view of the interior of St Michael's shows the narrow chancel arch with Norman responds.

The arch is steep and has Early English moulding.

The east window is thought to be Norman.

July 2013

"C15 octagonal piers to 3 bay south nave arcade with double chamfered arches"

"C15 chancel double chamfered arch with hollow chamfered reveals and imposts"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1166344 

DB 9 November 2018

Looking east towards the chancel.

"After fire in 1599 nave was restored by John Tirrel"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165640?section=official-list-entry 

DB 21 October 2023

The north arcade (left) has quatrefoil piers (late 13th century) and the south arcade octagonal ones (later).

October 2017

The chancel at St James's was added in 1886 and the imposing chancel screen was installed in the early twentieth century.

There is a small gallery (from which this photograph was taken) at the west end of the nave.

July 2011

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of All Saints is an exceedingly fine building of stone in the Transitional, Early English, Early and Late Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of six bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with spire containing a clock and 6 bells, and a chiming apparatus, added in 1888:

the old bells were recast and the sixth added in 1911 at a cost of £120:

the nave is Late Transitional work, and its pier capitals afford a most valuable series of examples of the carved foliage of this particular date; the clerestory has a continuous external arcade, similar to that of Whaplode, but the finest and most striking feature of the church is its exceptionally well proportioned and elegant tower and spire, which is unsurpassed by any in the kingdom :

the tower is of four stages, supported at the angles by double canopied buttresses rising into panelled and crocketed pinnacles; the parapet is embattled and from within it springs a light octagonal ribbed and crocketed spire, with three tiers of louvre lights placed alternately; small flying buttresses connect the pinnacles with the spire:

there are memorials to Robert Heath, vicar, ob. 1665; Philip Tallents, vicar, ob. 1704; and the Rev. Samuel Elsdale M.A. d. 1827:

the stained east window is a memorial to the Rev. John Russell Jackson M.A. vicar here 1866-1900:

the church was restored in I867, both externally and internally, at a cost of £3,500, and the tower and spire in 1903, at a cost of £350:

in 1888 the organ was enlarged and renovated"

DB 29 April 2018

The chancel was built in 1874.

September 2018

The striking chancel screen is the work of Charles Kirk whose retstoration of the church in 1876 cost £3,300

This photograph shows the Easter Bonnet Festival held in the church in 2013.

DB 1 April 2013

Replacement rood screen was designed by Temple L Moore in 1910.

DB 19 March 2018 

This unused postcard shows the church when it was lit by oil lamps and the altar was framed by riddel curtains in a heavy brocade.

Jean Howard

Looking east towards the chancel. 

Christmas Tree Festival in progress.

DB 7 December 2019

This view from the nave looking east shows a transverse arch in both side aisles and that the two easternmost ‘columns’ are broad and may be part of former external walls before side aisles were added.

Despite an initial impression that the whole is Victorian there is much early masonry particularly in the tower and south aisle.

Jean Howard, 2023

Interior view of church with community arts exhibition in progress.

DB 20 May 2018

Looking east towards the chancel. The Post Office Directory 1861 notes :-

"The living is a rectory, of the yearly value of £90, in the patronage of the Marquis of Bristol, and held by the Rev. Richard Chapman, M.A.

The church of St. Nicholas is a neat building, consisting of north and south aisles and chancel ; the tower contains 3 bells; the chancel and north aisle have been lately restored, and a new vestry built.

The register dates from the year 1650"

DB 11 March 2024

Looking east towards the rounded chancel arch.

Dentillated frieze and plain coved ceiling.

DB 4 August 2022

Looking east towards the chancel.

"Late C12 south arcade of 2 bays"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261895 

Many painted inscriptions on the walls presumably dating from the High Victorian period.

DB 8 September 2019

Looking east towards the chancel.

"North Hykeham Church was first mentioned in 1160 but, by 1535 it was a 'free chapel', and by 1700 a ruin.

From 1700 there was no church in North Hykeham.

All Saints Church, consisting of nave, south aisle, chancel and tower, was erected on a new site in 1868, at a cost of £1200"

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

DB 17 January 2019

Saint Hugh's Church open with displays celebrating its 50th anniversary.

A letter dated 30th October 1968 from R.Guilford Ltd, Building & Civil Engineering Contractors, Ascot Drive, Derby reads :-

"Re: Proposed New Church. 

We have now had the opportunity of calculating a revised price for your new church, overall size 40'0" x 45'0".

The price for this built to the same specification as recently submitted to you including seating, furniture etc., will be £5965 - 0 - 0. (Five Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty Five Pounds.) 

This price allows for a large window in the end of the building facing the road suitable for subsequent removal and refixing when the church is extended. 

If you will let us know if this is to your satisfaction the writer can then prepare revised drawings and obtain building and planning regulation consents"

DB 25 May 2019

Norman three bay arcades north and south. Chancel east window is late perpendicular in style.

Pier capitals are decorated with scallops all different.

DB 12 May 2013

The north arcade (to the left) has two bays; the piers are circular with cruciform, chamfered abaci and double chamfered arches.

The arch into the south transept (to the right) is four-centred.

The chancel screen dates from the Perpendicular period. On the south (right) side of the chancel arch is a blocked doorway to the rood stair.

October 2016

The interior of St Peter & St Paul has a 14th century arcade of tall, slender piers.  At the east end of the chancel is a five-light window with fine flowing tracery in Decorated style.

July 2014

General view of the rebuilt chancel (1888).

August 2013

Looking east towards the chancel.

Kelly's Directory 1930 reports :-

"The church of SS. Peter and Paul is an ancient building of the Earlier English, Late Decorated and Perpendicular periods, consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, south porch and a western tower containing a clock and 3 bells:

there are richly canopied sedilia, the ogee arches of which are deeply moulded and crocketed in a free and bold style; the chancel retains also a piscina and locker, and there are remains of a rood screen of Perpendicular date, and a late Norman font with an arcading of interlaced semicircular arches :

the mediæval carved bench ends are of interest, among them being a representation of St. George slaying the dragon, and a grotesque of a fox in the pulpit preaching to a goose :

the tower is finished abruptly and has no parapet; its lower stages are Early English :

the church was restored and new seats erected in 1873, at a cost of £1,460, when the roof of the chancel and nave were raised to the original pitch, and a new east window inserted:

there are 350 sittings" 

DB 1 April 2024

Looking east towards the C19 chancel arch. 

First world war memorabilia, and poppies in art and textiles, on display for West Lindsey Churches Festival.

DB 20 May 2018

The interior view looking east  shows the two arcades - both 4-bay and in Decorated style. There are small differences.

August 2015

Jean Howard, 4 April 2021

This view underlines how narrow and steeply pointed are the doorways through the tower.

Jean Howard, 4 April 2021

This general view of the church interior, looking east, shows the arcades (north on the left) with the font in the foreground.

Early nineteenth century timber trusses are evident in the chancel.

September 2015

The interior of St Andrew's has a restored 14th century screen.

The church is renowned for its medieval wall paintings of c1380, which include a Doom painting over the chancel arch.

September 2013

A Georgian building 1754 with a very short nave only 21 ft. Apse has a Venetian window. 

DB 12 May 2013 

"Tall 5 bay C13 nave arcades, alternating round and octagonal piers with some reused C12 work, matching capitals and hobnail decoration.

The easternmost piers are more elaborate with angle shafts"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064433 

DB 28 April 2019

The bright and spacious interior of Christ Church, with nave, aisles and chancel.

October 2017

Looking east towards the chancel arch of 1862-3. 

C13 north arcade of 3 bays.

DB 18 November 2019

The south arcade, recut by G.G.Scott,  may be 12th century in origin.

Much of the decoration in the chancel, seen here, is the work of Temple Moore in 1886.

September 2015

The chancel - within a polygonal apse - was built by Nicholson in 1839.

The stained glass is of the same date.

March 2013

The interior of St Peter's.  On the left is the north arcade with 13th century octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches.

March 2013

Looking east towards the early C13 chancel arch which was heavily restored in C19

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308352?section=official-list-entry 

C20 pews.

DB 8 May 2022

A view from the nave looking towards the chancel. Henry Thorold described the early nineteenth-century east window's depiction of the Day of Judgement as 'lurid'.* It was designed by John Martin & executed by William Collins

* Lincolnshire Churches Revisited, 1993

Mark Acton, 2010
 

In contrast to the exterior of the church, the arcades date from the thirteenth century.

July 2018

Looking east towards the chancel.

DB 19 April 2019

The interior is in yellow brick with bands of red brick.

The chancel is contained within a small semi-circular apse.

The arch over the vestry door (front left) dates from the early Norman period in contrast to the mid-Victorian construction elsewhere.

September 2015

Interior view looking east.

"The chancel arch is C13 and matches the south arcade"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261821 

DB 6 August 2018

Interior view looking west.

"The tower arch is a recut C13 opening"

"The C12 3 bay north arcade has circular piers"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261821 

DB 6 August 2018

Looking east towards the chancel.

"C19 wooden roofs, pews, choir stalls, pulpit, rood screen and reredos"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261375 

DB 21 August 2019

The rood screen and furnishings of St Margaret's are Victorian like the remainder of the church fabric.

Mark Acton, 2016

Interior view looking east from a narrow nave towards a small rood screen.

September 2018

The south aisle and, beyond the screen, the south-east chapel.

June 2008

Jean Howard, 2 March 2022

The interior looking west. To the right is the now blocked late twelfth-century three-bay north arcade.

Mark Acton, 2018

Interior view looking east towards the chancel. The twelfth century north arcade, now blocked on the left.

April 2018

The interior of St Helen's retains its 18th century furnishings, including Ionic pilasters.

May 2008

View looking east towards the chancel.

"C13 north arcade of 3 bays with quatrefoil piers and half round respond, all filleted.

Piers have annular capitals and responds, double chamfered arches"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359490 

DB 10 December 2018

View looking east towards the chancel.

"Pointed, double chamfered chancel arch with hood mould and corbelled responds"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205227 

DB 9 September 2018

Looking from the nave towards the chancel. Pictured during the West Lindsey Churches Festival.

DB 14 May 2017

Looking east towards the chancel.

"Double-chamfered chancel arch of filleted responds with engaged shafts"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083718 

DB 14 June 2019

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

The earliest parts of the church of St German are the tower and chancel arches which date from circa 1200.

The nave was rebuilt in 1796, with further restoration in the nineteenth century, and the chancel was rebuilt in 1904.

The Perpendicular upper stage of the tower may date from 1590 when the bells were re-hung.

Postcard, 1905

Inside the church of St Andrew can be seen a pulpit and altar rails of the 17th century, a medieval font, and a small stone with 10th century interlace carving.

September 2013

Interior of St Andrew's church. The box pews and pulpit, said to date from the seventeenth century, are of simple construction, painted off-white.

April 2018

Looking east towards the C13 chancel arch.

"5 bay early C13 north nave arcade"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064133?section=official-list-entry 

DB 18 April 2024

The Post Office Directory 1868 notes :-

"The church of St. Genevieve is a spacious stone edifice, chiefly in the Early English style, and consists of nave, chancel, aisles, and tower containing 3 bells and clock :

the chancel was restored in 1866:

an ancient bell in the church tower is inscribed " RESONAT  CAMPANA JOHANNIS IN MULTIS ANNIS:"

there are effigies of a knight and a lady in the south aisle, and a slab from which a brass inscription and coats of arms have been torn away:

the rood-loft was taken down in 1565 and a bridge made of it.

The register dates from 1560.

The living is a rectory, annual value £655, with residence, in the gift of Sir Richard Frederick, Bart., and held by the Rev. Edward Frederick St. Leger, M.A., of Queen's College, Oxford"

DB 4 April 2024

The north arcade, with octagonal piers, dates form the early fourteenth century Decorated period.

June 2017

At the east end of the chancel is the Venetian window, with stained glass of 1861 by O'Conner.

September 2015

Looking west towards the tower arch.

A final church service was held in 1984 after which building remained derelict for 16 years.

Starting in 2000 and opening in 2001 the church has been converted into an arts centre. 

http://www.2021visualartscentre.co.uk/history-of-st-johns-church/ 

Now the "20-21 Visual Arts Centre".

DB 23 February 2018

View from the gallery along the nave and into the chancel.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of St. Nicholas, built in 1833, is a structure of white brick, in a modern Gothic style, consisting of chancel and nave and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing 5 bells and a clock:

the church was restored and reseated and a chancel screen erected during the period 1860-90, at a cost of £485:

two of the bells, the clock, altar rails and screen were the gift of the Rev. T. J. M. Townsend B.A. for 44 years vicar of this parish and to whose memory a stained window was erected in the nave in 1891, at a cost of £43:

the east window, erected in 1857, is a memorial to Richard Roadley esq. formerly lord of the manor of this parish :

in the alley of the nave there is a stone coffin lid with Latin inscription to a former vicar, who died in 1441 :

in the churchyard close to the entrance, is the capital of one of the piers of the original church, with a delicate moulding of the dog-tooth ornament:

the base of the churchyard cross still remains; and an ancient coped stone, with a raised foliated cross of very elegant design, probably of the 14th century, now covers the grave of the wife of a former parish clerk, and is inscribed : "Isabella Barkwith, died April 6th, 1712" :

there are 120 sittings"

DB 19 May 2019

Looking east towards the chancel.

"Nave has early C13 north arcade, 3 bays, with double chamfered round arches, linked hood mould and round piers.

C15 south arcade has moulded pointed arches with hood moulds, and octagonal piers"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1236949 

DB 6 February 2019 

The nave north arcade with the pillars elongated when the clerestory was added.

Mark Acton, 2017

Looking east towards the chancel.

"5 bay nave arcades with single step arches.

C12 circular piers and responds, heightened from 7 ft. in 1840, with square abaci and scalloped capitals"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063533 

DB 3 August 2019

The arcades to north and south are from the Decorated period.

The piers are quatrefoil; the arches double-chamfered.

April 2016

Looking east towards the apsidal sanctuary.

DB 7 June 2022

The simple interior of St Peter & St Paul, looking east.

According to Pevsner, the position of the tower (north of the church's east-west axis) suggests there was once a north aisle, but the chancel and chancel arch (symmetrically positioned) contradict this supposition.

Perhaps the N arcade was taken out before the chancel arch was built, surmises Pevsner.

September 2015

The interior of St Botolph when still in use. It looks almost as bare and grim as it does now. Not a good advertisement for the Victorian practice of 'scraping'.

Postcard postmarked Louth 1914. 

The interior of the church looking west. The four-bay arcades differ, but all date from the early thirteenth century.

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

View looking east.

The chancel arch was built in the thirteenth century. On the north wall of chancel is a rectangular aumbry and on the south side a piscina and sedilia.

The east window is flanked by large grotesque corbel heads.

June 2008

The view looking west shows the early thirteenth-century north and south arcades, each of four bays.

Both arcades have octagonal piers and polygonal responds.

June 2008

The south arcade (right), 2-bay, dates from the early 13th century; the north arcade and the chnacel arch (ahead) are late in the same century.

September 2016

Looking east towards the rood screen and chancel.

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1872 states "The church has undergone a complete repair, under the direction of Messrs. Kirk and Parry, at a cost of nearly £3500. The unsightly old pews and galleries have been replaced by carved oak benches; a new pulpit and reading desk of beautiful design erected"

DB 20 June 2018

Looking east down the nave towards the chancel and the St Pol monuments.

May 2018

The aisle arcades were rebuilt using original material of the 13th century in the restoration of the 1860s.

The piers of the south arcade are octagonal, those of the north are round. Both have double-chamfered arches.

October 2016

Looking east towards the chancel.

Nave rebuilt 1843. 

DB 19 March 2023

Looking east towards the chancel. 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of St. Michael is a small building of stone, partly in the Decorated style, and consists of apsidal chancel, nave, south porch and a tower with spire containing 2 bells :

the chancel and nave were rebuilt in 1725 :

the whole fabric was thoroughly restored in 1869 at a cost of about £900, under the direction of Messrs. Drury and Mortimer, architects, of Lincoln, towards which the late Hon. C.H. Cust, of Arthingworth, who died in 1875, contributed £420 :

there are 123 sittings"

DB 30 November 2013

Looking east towards the chancel.

DB 14 August 2018

Looking east towards the south chapel.

DB 14 August 2018

The long nave is flanked by 5-bay early thirteenth-century arcades with round piers with octagonal abaci.

The screen in front of the chancel dates from the fourteenth-century, restored in the nineteenth.

June 2008

Looking east towards the altar.

DB 20 March 2019

The four-bay arcades either side of the nave date from the late fourteenth century.

The piers are quatrefoil, the arches double-chamfered.

Beyond the nave can be seen the chancel with richly decorated ceiling and screen (by J Oldrid Scott).

August 2016

"Vestry screen, organ screen, pulpit, choir stalls, readers desk, all have intersecting arcades, foliage and angels, in C13 style.

The fine reredos and altar are in painted and gilded wood, with ogee arches. The organ is painted to match"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165996 

Whole church by James Fowler of Louth 1875. 

DB 20 May 2018

Internal view looking west (actually north).

In the foreground on the left is the font. On the rear wall are two boards inscribed with the ten commandments.

September 2015

The interior of this little building is bright and well-cared for.

Jean Howard, 12 March 2022

A view through the tower arch into the nave and chancel.

DB 2020

This shows the positions of the two Guevara monuments and that both figures are depicted looking to the east. The door at the far end leads into the vestry.

Jean Howard, November 2020 

Interior view from the lectern looking west towards the entrance.

Jean Howard, November 2020 

Looking towards the C11 chancel arch.

"Cll chancel arch restored in C19 with round voussoired head, chamfered imposts with scored line decoration and rectangular jambs. Moulded string course runs from just below impost level to north wall with broad, blocked round headed recess below"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359976?section=official-list-entry 

DB 11 September 2022

Looking east towards the chancel. The north arcade had quatrefoil piers; those in the south arcade are octagonal.

May 2018

Looking east towards the C19 chancel arch.

Late C13 nave arcades.

DB 1 September 2019

Looking west towards the tall C15 tower arch.

DB 1 September 2019

This view of the nave shows the crossing with its massive Saxon arch.

Frank Robinson, 2011

Pevsner comments the church "has a happily unchanged interior, crowded and alive, still with plastered walls and ceiling and a clutter of C18 woodwork"

DB 14 April 2018

Interior view from the gallery looking east,

DB 28 August 2018 

Interior view looking west.

DB 28 August 2018 

The view looking east along the nave to the apse. The tunnel vault of the nave is apparent and the neo-Norman chancel arch.

May 2016

Looking east towards the rood screen and chancel arch.

"C14 4 bay nave arcades, with C13 bases to piers, the north arcade is blocked at the easternment bay"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064403 

Kelly's Directory 1919 states "when the church was being restored, remnants of the old oak screen were found buried; from these fragments plans were drawn and an oak screen and loft, surmounted by the rood, has been constructed"

DB 29 April 2018

The arch at the west crossing is pointed but has zigzag decoration and scalloped capitals.

September 2011

The chancel is rather overpowered by organ pipes mounted on both sides.

The three-light east window has cusped panel tracery.

The reredos behind the altar is contemporary with the construction of the church.

July 2019

Interior view looking east. Much of this was rebuilt by Bassett Smith in the late nineteenth century.

September 2017

At the east end, the simple chancel arch has smaller blank arches to each side.

The plastered walls are lined to resemble ashlar.

September 2015

Looking back towards the western doors, showing the handsome organ on the right and the curtained vestry area to the left.

Jean Howard, 17 March 2021

The north arcade (on the left) is low with octagonal piers; the south arcade (on the right) is higher - and later in date - and has piers composed of four shafts.

April 2018

Looking east towards the crossing and chancel beyond.

DB 20 June 2022

The nave and chancel are in one structure.  The restoration of 1860 is evident.

June 2014

Interior looking west.

The walls are very thick, as can be seen from the deep splay of the windows and the depth of the wall plate beneath the roof trusses. This has also allowed the electric lighting to be fitted discreetly.

Jean Howard, 27 January 2021

Looking east towards the chancel.

Kelly's Directory 1930 reports :-

"The church of St. Mary the Virgin is an edifice of stone, in the Norman, Early English and Later styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing 3 bells:

the nave has several inserted windows of the Early Decorated period and a clerestory of Perpendicular date:

the arches opening to the tower and chancel from the nave are very fine examples of Norman work, and the tower itself remains nearly as in the 12th century:

the chancel has three stained lancet windows, erected with two side windows, in memory of Sir John Charles Thorold bart. d. 26 April, 1866:

and there are monuments to others of the Thorold family and memorial windows to Lieut.-Col. Charles Cecil Thorold, 1st Batt. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, killed in action in South Africa, 24th Feb. 1900, and Capt. Henry Cecil Thorold, 2nd Batt. Leicestershire Regiment, killed in action in South Africa in 1902:

the church was repaired in 1861-2, under the direction of Mr. Charles Kirk, of Sleaford, architect, at the cost of the late Sir J. C. Thorold bart. when the roofs were renewed and raised, the chancel almost wholly rebuilt and several ancient windows restored:

the curious stone lintel of the south doorway, with its arcading inclosing figures of saints, has also been renewed:

the font was presented by the Rev. Prebendary George Gilbert M.A. a former vicar, and is Early English in style:

the communion plate of silver-gilt was also his gift:

there are 120 sittings"

DB 21 March 2022

The chancel arches are late 13th century.  To the south is an early 13th century piscina.

September 2014

View across the nave and into the north aisle.

"On the north side is a 2 bay early C13 arcade with circular pier, responds and abaci with double chamfered arches. Eastwards a later C13 double chamfered arch"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360195 

DB 17 November 2018

Looking west towards the tower arch.

"Early C12 interior tower arch with triple reponds with scalloped capitals, semi-circular head of 2 orders, possibly rebuilt at a later date"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359666 

Image taken during the annual art exhibition now in its 31st year. 

DB 26 May 2019

Looking east towards the pulpitum and organ.

DB 28 October 2021

Looking east towards the chancel with Christmas Tree Festival in progress.

"mid C13 north and south arcades with octagonal piers, polygonal responds, plain capitals and double chamfered pointed arches"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063475 

DB 22 December 2019

Looking east towards the altar and east window.

Kelly's Directory 1905 states "The church of St. John the Baptist is a small edifice of stone in the Early English style, from designs by Mr. James Fowler, architect, of Louth, erected in 1873, at the cost of the Right Hon. H. Chaplin P.C., M.P. and consists of chancel, nave, porch, vestry and a wooden bell-cote with spirelet, containing one bell" 

DB 28 August 2022

Looking east towards the mid C14 chancel arch.

"Mid C14 north and south 3 bay tall arcades restored in C19 with double chamfered pointed heads, the inner order of limestone, the outer of green sandstone; octagonal piers, C12 semi-circular moulded bases, C14 octagonal capitals and responds"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205243 

DB 18 January 2020

Both north and south arcades are of 5 bays with octagonal piers and double chamfered arches.

The chancel screen is enriched with panelled tracery to the upper parts.

June 2008

Looking east towards the chancel.

DB 31 August 2019

Looking east towards the chancel.

"Late C13 north and south arcades each of 3 bays with double chamfered pointed arches, octagonal piers and polygonal responds with octagonal capitals. Some bases and plinths by Fowler"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165474?section=official-list-entry 

DB 20 July 2023

Looking east towards the C19 chancel arch.

DB 15 April 2022

Looking east towards the chancel screen.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"a new oak screen was presented by the Rev. W. Hedley M.A. rector 1900-1904 to the memory of the Right Rev. Edward King D.D. Bishop of Lincoln 1885-1910"

DB 2 April 2019

The chancel of St Peter's, with its three tall east windows, is largely Norman.

September 2013

Looking east towards the chancel. Lecture in progress associated with the Threekingham Viking Festival.

DB 16 September 2023

View looking west towards the tower arch.

"13C, 3 bay arcade on north side, with octagonal piers and double chamfered arches. Pointed tower arch"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061972 

DB 16 June 2018

Church open for West Lindsey Churches Festival with an ongoing art exhibition off to the left.

DB 20 May 2018

View down the nave, looking east.

5 bay C13 nave arcades with circular columns and responds, moulded capitals with some unfinished decoration.

July 2019  

View from the chancel looking west down the nave.

The fourteenth-century double chamfered chancel arch is supported on octagonal responds with moulded capitals.

The traceried screen dates from the Victorian restoration.

July 2019  

The division between nave and chancel is tripartite - an unusual arrangement - with pointed arches.

The small chancel is seen beyond.

Mark Acton 2016

The plain but attractive and well-proportioned interior of St Margaret's church.

May 2016

The interior has a 15th century north arcade with a richly carved 14th century canopy at the east end.

The chancel arch, piscina and font  are also 14th century. All other furnishings are 19th century - apart from the delightful paper models of angels

April 2015

Excellent church history available online.

http://stmichaelschurchwaddington.org.uk/church%20history/index.html 

DB 30 April 2018 

Strongly coloured ceilings in the nave and chancel relieve the plain box-like shape of the church.

July 2014

Looking east towards the chancel.

C19 wooden pews & pulpit.

DB 10 July 2019

Looking east towards the wooden rood screen of 1933.

DB 22 December 2019

Looking east towards the chancel. The interior of the chruch is decidedly odd: an arcade divided the chancel longitudinally.

May 2018

The chapel to Walmsgate Hall was built in 1901 by the Dallas Yorkes in memory of their son.

After the demolition of the hall in the 1950s the chapel was dismantled and partly re-erected as a church in Langworth near Lincoln.

The contemporary art nouveau fittings of the chapel are typified by the hanging lamp in the centre of this photograph.

Undated postcard by T. A. Humberstone of Walmsgate.

Interior view looking east.

Clerestoried windows and niches were added in C15 and the former roof line is evident.

DB 24 March 2018 

Looking towards the chancel.

Pulpit dates from 1881. 

DB 29 May 2018

Looking east towards the chancel. A newspaper cutting on display from the reopening of the church in 1892 states :- 

"The work of restoration was in the hands of Mr. Jabez Kime, and great satisfaction is felt at the excellent manner he has fulfilled his contract working in all the improvements in true harmony with the untouched portion. A word of praise is certainly due for the  punctuality with which he has characterized his work. The interior has undergone entire renovation and restoration, the most striking features being the Gothic traceried windows and the flooring. The seats are all open" 

DB 6 July 2022

Jean Howard, 8 October 2021

Jean Howard, 8 October 2021

The arcades date from the medieval period, unlike the external fabric of the church.

The north arcade (on the left) has four bays and dates from the fourteenth cventury; the south, of three bays, is thirteenth century.

May 2016

Looking east towards the chancel.

DB 31 August 2019

Looking west towards the tower arch.

"4 bay north arcade of c.1200"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252247 

DB 31 August 2019

The early 14th century chancel has Decorated windows with intersecting tracery.

The tiled interior and the reredos with its mosaics date from the restoration in 1874 by Butterfield.

September 2014

Looking east towards the rood screen and chancel.

DB 6 May 2018

Nine years of disuse is evident in this view towards the chancel.

The light which can be seen intruding at the ridge in front of the chancel arch betrays one of the holes in the roof.

Jean Howard, 15 June 2021

The chancel windows came from Weston St. Mary when it was restored in 1888. The reredos came from Lutton Parish Church in 1895. The pulpit and altar rails were given in memory of Mr. Cock in the 1940's and bear the famous "Yorkshire Mouse" carvings.

https://www.southhollandlife.com/2018/05/the-church-of-saint-john-the-evangelist-weston-hills/ 

DB 6 May 2018

Wonderful display of tapestry kneelers.

DB 3 May 2015

A simple, bright and colourful interior.

September 2017

Looking east towards the chancel. 

"The nave and chancel are structurally undifferentiated, but there is a reassembled C15 screen of 4 lights to either side of the central opening which is surmounted by a cusped ogee arch.

The heads of the lights are cusped with mouchettes"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359477 

DB 19 May 2019

Looking towards the plastered semi-circular chancel arch.

Local signage states that "The present structure was built in 1787 and contained, amongst things, one silver chalice now kept in the Lincoln Cathedral Treasury, and a parish register of births marriages and deaths from 1563 to 1711, now found in the Lincoln Archives".

DB 12 September 2021

Looking east towards the C17 round headed chancel arch.

White's Directory 1872 reports "The Church (St. Helen) is a neat fabric, with a massive tower. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £18. 6s. 8d., and now at £532, is in the patronage of B. E. Hawke, Esq., and incumbency of the Rt. Hon. and Rev. Ed. Henry Julius, Lord Hawke, who is also vicar of Coates, and has a good residence near the church"

DB 15 May 2022

C20 pews, pulpit and lectern.

DB 4 May 2022

Looking west towards the tall C15 tower arch.

DB 16 April 2018

The interior of St Martin's.  This could be any one of Blomfield's surburban churches.

July 2013

The east window is of three stepped lancets and shows the Ascension of Christ into Heaven.

The open archway to the south of the chancel gives access into the vestry.

Jean Howard, December 2020

Looking east towards the rood beam and chancel.

DB 3 September 2023

View of the church interior looking east towards the chancel and the east window.

Both north and south arcades (left and right) are medieval in date.

April 2018

View from the gallery.

DB 12 May 2018

The interior of St Catherine's; nothing to attract interest on a gloomy autumn day.

September 2016

View of the church interior looking east showing the north aisle.

The pews have doors numbered for use by specific families.

Jean Howard, January 2024 

Looking west from the nave towards the tower and into the north aisle.

The tower screen dates from the fifteenth century and has possibly been removed here from the chancel arch during the nineteenth-century restoration.

Jean Howard, January 2024