In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Scunthorpe Circuit Past And Present" prepared By Colin Shepherdson & Mervyn G White March 1997 (Revised August 1998) it is stated that :-

"The first chapel was built in 1823 or 1833, and the foundation stone for the "Jubilee" chapel, probably on the same site in the High Street, was laid on the 6.9.1868.

This second chapel opened in April 1869.

The interior was altered in 1961 and now incorperates fittings from Scunthorpe Trinity chapel.

The schoolrooms were opened on the 10.6.1961 and the chapel is still in use with a membership of 41"

Geoff Swain Collection 17 August 1993

The broad tower of St Andrew's church is Early English and is unbuttressed.

The tower has a tall lancet window on the west side (just visible here, at low level) and one-shafted bell openings.

April 2015

St Andrew's, Burton-upon-Stather, has a fine Norman north arcade.

Much of the rest of the church is from the Early English period though much restored by Edward Browning in 1865. This includes the nave windows with their flowing tracery in Decorated style.

There are monuments inside to the Sheffields of Normanby.

April 2015

A view of the Early English tower and Victorian porch.

April 2015

The elevated position of the church can be appreciated in this view through the lych gate at the south-east corner of the churchyard.

April 2015

Undated postcard. 

Thealby is a hamlet in the parish of Burton upon Stather described in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 as :-

"a pleasant hamlet, with a station on the North Lindsey light railway, 2 miles east from Burton church and has a schoolroom used for church services; there are also Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels"

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Scunthorpe Circuit Past And Present” prepared By Colin Shepherdson & Mervyn G White March 1997 (Revised August 1998) it is stated that :-

"A chapel was built behind a row of cottages in Normanby Road and opened on the 2.6.1871.

A Sunday school was added in 1927 and a new porch to the chapel in 1973.

The chapel closed in 1993 and is now standing disused"

Thealby is a hamlet in the parish of Burton upon Stather.

Geoff Swain Collection 6 September 1993