Keelby, Kings Head

White's Directory 1856 has "Hill James, vict., King's Head" and also notes two beerhouses. 

Kelly's Directory 1930 has "Oliver Arthur, King's Head P.H". and mentions two beer retailers.

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Keelby, Rifle Range

South Street frontage of the indoor rifle range.

"Rifle range, 1897 ...  3 continguous blocked lancet windows having red brick heads with continuous hood mould"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359821?section=official-list-entry 

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Keelby, St Bartholomew

The Perpendicular ironstone tower of St Bartholomew's dates from the 14th century.

Nave and chancel have been much restored, most notably in the early 20th century, but the church still has a 13th century south arcade.

July 2014

Keelby, St Bartholomew

Kelly's Directory 1930 reports :-

"The church of St. Bartholomew is an ancient building of stone, with some portions of Norman date, but is chiefly of the Decorated period, and consists of chancel and nave and a western tower containing 3 bells:

in the north wall of the chancel is a monument to John South, ob. 1591, and a circular medallion bust of Alice South, ob. 1605, with a quaint Latin inscription in verse :

the church plate dates from the 16th century :

in 1905 the chancel and the tower were repaired :

in 1909 a new south aisle was built, the old arcade being preserved and the north arcade, aisle and the chancel restored :

in 1929 an oak tower screen and stained window were added ; an oak reredos was also erected to the memory of Caroline Mary Browne by her family :

there are 244 sittings"

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Keelby, St Bartholomew

White's Directory 1856 notes :-

"The Church (St. Bartholomew) has a tower and three bells, and contains an ancient effigy of one of the South family; but the brasses which were were inlaid in several of the flags, have been torn away"

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Keelby, St Bartholomew

A modern church hall now projects to the south.

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel

Looking east towards the altar.

"Chancel has 1908 fittings, roof of the nave and chancel of similar date. Door on south side of chancel into vestry is a recut C13 archway"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry 

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel 

A second view of the chancel looking east.

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, East Window

"heavily restored late C13 3 light Y tracery window"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry

Christ's crucifixion depicted in the early C20? stained glass.

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

A memorial in the nave of the church to two local women who lost their lives when the Lusitania sank.

July 2014

Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF ANNIE LANCASTER AND DOROTHY LANCASTER OF KEELBY MANOR, WHO LOST THEIR LIVES THROUGH THE SINKING OF THE "LUSITANIA" 7TH MAY 1915"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/48922 

"The RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles (20 kilometres) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland"

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

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

"IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF ELIZABETH HOLGATE OF KEELBY GRANGE WHO DIED ON THE 4TH OF JULY 1874"

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

"THE KING'S OWN

In Loving Memory of Our dearly beloved Son & Brother. Pte. Arthur Frederick Jackson, Of the King's Own Royal Lancasters. Who died of Wounds in France August 14th 1917. Aged 20 Years"

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF WM FREAR HOLGATE, OF KEELBY GRANGE, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPR 12, 1868, AGED 63"

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Memorial

"North wall of chancel has a wall plaque to John South, d.1591, a square marble plaque in a marble frame with circular pendent motif below and 2 obelisks flanking a cartouche of arms above, central panel flanked by vertical margins containing ribbons, incised skulls and hourglasses"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry 

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Organ

Organ viewed from the chancel.

"In 1887 a new organ was provided by a single benefactor and was installed by Cousins of Lincoln"

https://woldsgateway.org.uk/?page_id=111 

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Chancel, Sanctuary

A closer view of the sanctuary.

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Nave

Looking east towards the chancel.

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Nave

Looking west towards the C14 tower arch.

"3 bay mid C13 south arcade ... 3 bay north arcade, 1908, matching that to the south"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry 

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Nave

Looking across the nave towards the north aisle.

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Nave

Looking across the nave towards the font and south aisle. The font was moved to its present position when the south aisle was rebuilt.

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Nave, Font

The octagonal font decorated with quatrefoils is 14th century.

July 2014

Keelby, St Bartholomew, Nave, Font

A second view of the font.

"C14 font, octagonal with recessed decorative panels containing cusped curvilinear quatrefoils. The original base has cusped 3 centred arches with sunk spandrels"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry  

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Nave, Memorial

Memorial positioned near the pulpit. 

"In Memoriam JOHN SMITH OF KEELBY MANOR BORN AUG. 11TH, 1808, DIED JULY 13TH, 1873. AND MARY HIS WIFE WHO DIED JANUARY 3RD, 1885, AGED 73 YEARS"

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Nave, Pulpit

Pulpit presumably dating from the 1908 restoration though it bears a plaque reading "IN AFFECTIONATE MEMORY OF JANET PIGOTT-SMITH 1906-1983"

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Nave, Roof

Nave roof dating from around 1908.

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle

Looking west.

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle

Looking east.

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle

East end of the north aisle.

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle, Memorial

This memorial bust of Alice South is in the north aisle.  Hands clasped in prayer, she wears  a ruff and has a cowled head.

The Souths once held the manor of Keelby.

The inscription below the bust reads:
Here lies Alice South whose life had weathered sixty winters when it ceased its lingering course.  Though wooed by the flower of youth and a troop of nobles, she remained for fourteen years in lonely widowhood, out of affection for her children, to whom, rejecting a second marriage, she made over ere death took her, her fortune unimpaired - all her fortune, that is, save what had been devoured by the parasite and wretched crowd of suitors who haunted her hospitable walls. Happy children to whom but for her request would have fallen sorrow and sighing in place of ease she bequeathed to them. 'Husband take and keep me in the tomb' were her dying words, then passed into the funeral urn the ashes of a thus dutiful wife. Died 3 May 1605

July 2014

Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle, Memorial

Closer view of the portrait bust.

"In the north wall of the north aisle a recessed circular marble frame with guilloche decoration containing a portrait bust of Alice South, d,1605. She with hands clasped in prayer, with a ruff and cowled head"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry 

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle, Memorial

Memorial viewed from the left. Frontal view blocked by the north arcade.

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle, Window

Late C15 window with modern stained glass.

Inscription in glass reads "TO THE GLORY OF GOD IN MEMORY OF HENRY HOULTON DIED 15TH MARCH 1934"

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, North Aisle, Window

Late C15 window with modern stained glass.

An inscription, in the glass of the adjoining window, reads "TO THE GLORY OF GOD IN MEMORY OF HENRY HOULTON DIED 15TH MARCH 1934"

this window reads "AND OF HIS WIFE CHARLOTTE HOULTON DIED 11TH DEC 1945"

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Porch

"North porch is C19 with pointed arched outer doorway, chimney to boiler in angle between porch and aisle wall"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry 

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, South Aisle

Looking east towards the organ chamber and vestry. 

Kelly's Directory notes that in 1909 a new south aisle was built, the old arcade being preserved.

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, South Aisle

Altar towards the east end of the south aisle. Organ chamber and vestry further east beyond the red curtain.

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, South Aisle

A photograph c1905 shows the church interior before the south aisle was rebuilt. The south arcade had been blocked up and built into what was then an exterior wall. 

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, South Aisle, Cross Fleury

"A fragment of a cut back C13 cross fleury, perhaps from a monument"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry 

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, South Aisle, Incumbents

A list of incumbents dating from Walter Crispin in 1226.

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, South Aisle, War Memorial

"LEST WE FORGET 1939 - 1945"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/48923 

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Tower

"C14 west tower with moulded plinth and setback stepped buttresses of 1910, 3 stages"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry 

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Tower Arch

"C14 tower arch, chamfered reveals and double chamfered almost 4 centred head without capitals"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry 

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Tower Vault

"Fine quadrupartite moulded ribbed tower vault with decorated vaulting boss and corbels"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry 

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Keelby, St Bartholomew, Tower, West Window

"Gothic style window placed in the blocking of the west door"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry 

An 1896 photograph displayed in the church shows the west door still in place and a large crack in the tower above.

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Keelby, Village Hall

"Village Hall, 1897"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063367?section=official-list-entry 

Originally the Church Institute. An entry in Kelly's Directory 1930 has "Church Institute & Reading Room (W.S.Thornton, sec)". 

July 2014

Keelby, War Memorial

Kelly's Directory 1930 reports "In 1921 a cross was erected in the village in memory of the men of the parish who fell during the Great War, 1914-18"

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Keelby, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Grimsby & Cleethorpes Circuit Past And Present” prepared by Colin Shepherdson March 1998 it is reported that :-

i) Services commenced in 1780 and a chapel opened in October 1824. It was enlarged in 1829.

ii) A second chapel was opened on the 3.11.1844.

iii) A new larger chapel was built in Yarborough Road with the stonelaying taking place on the 10.10.1866 and the opening on the 1.5.1867. The architect was Mr Bellamy of Lincoln. It was enlarged in 1897 and is still in use with a membership of 66"

Keelby, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

A second view of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. Now the "Healing and Keelby Methodist Church".