Now within Lincoln, Bracebridge All Saints has an Anglo-Saxon nave, with long and short quoins.

Inside, the tall narrow Saxon chancel arch is also notable. The north chapel was built by J L Pearson, 1874-75.

Mark Acton, 2010

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of All Saints is a small but ancient edifice of stone in the Early Norman, Early English and later styles, consisting of chancel with vestry, nave of three bays, aisles, transept, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 2 bells :

in the south wall of the chancel are double sedilia and & piscina in good preservation, and in the nave a handsome brass corona presented in 1871 by C. Pratt esq. mayor of Lincoln:

there is a curious black letter Bible and an oak church chest :

the walls of the chancel arch are of great thickness and are pierced by two hagioscopea, one of which on the south side affords a view of the altar from a low-side window in the west wall of the south aisle :

fixed in one of the pillars at the side of the pulpit an hour-glass stand, now fitted with a new sand-glass, and there is a good cylindrical Norman font :

in the south aisle is a restored altar-tomb of the 17th century, inscribed to Katherine, second daughter and co-heir of John Wilson esq. of Sheepwash, and wife of ___ Luddington esq. of Bracebridge:

there is a memorial window to Harriett Beevor, d. Jan. 26, 1883:

in 1888 two stained windows were placed in the north aisle by Mrs Eleanor Ewbank; and in 1903 a stained east window was presented by the Rev. C. C. Ellison, and a memorial window placed in the south aisle to the Rev. George Howell Jones, Vicar here 1897-1902:

in 1874-5 the church was restored and considerably enlarged, under the direction of Mr. J. L. Pearson R.A., F.S.A. when a new north aisle, shallow transept and a vestry were built, the walls of the south aisle rebuilt, the singular south doorway reset, and the whole structure new roofed:

in 1893 the tower was completely restored under the direction of Mr. Hodgson Fowler, architect, of Durham, and other alterations carried out :

a large number of fragments of coffin lids of the 13th century, found in the south wall, have been replaced, with their ornamental crosses facing outwards :

there are 230 sittings.

In 1910 a lych gate was erected to the memory of Elizabeth Ellison.

The living is a vicarage, net income £240, with residence, in the gift of the Rev. Henry Richard Ellison B.A. and held since 1902 by the Rev. Ernest Stafford Smith M.A. of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge"

DB 14 May 2018

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 (before some of the later Victorian alterations) states :-

"Bracebridge Church (All Saints) is a small ancient structure, consisting of a nave, chancel, south aisle, and tower, covered with flat tiles.

The vicarage, valued in K.B. at £3. 9s. 8d., and now at £203, is in the incumbency of the Rev. Wm. Bromehead, B.A., and in the patronage of Mrs. Bromehead.

The tithes were commuted in 1841 for £226 per annum"

DB 14 May 2018

View of the church from the south-west.

March 2018

View from the south-east in the spring sunshine.

March 2018

Looking east towards the sanctuary.

The reredos behind the altar was erected as a war memorial after the end of the First World War.

DB 27 July 2019

Looking west back into the nave through the chancel arch.

"Chancel has a narrow C11 arch with imposts, flanked by single large squints"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388470 

DB 27 July 2019

View of the eleventh century chancel arch, looking east to the chancel.

March 2018

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH WIFE OF CC ELLISON MA VICAR FROM 1863 TO 1897 SHE DIED JUNE 5TH 1909 AGED 67 YEARS"

DB 27 July 2019

"North side has a 2-bay C19 arcade similar to the nave arcades, with organ pipes in the left opening and a glazed wooden screen in the right"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388470 

DB 27 July 2019

"1910 IN LOVING MEMORY OF ELIZABETH ELLISON, ERECTED BY HER CHILDREN"

Restored in 1962 and 2008. Rededicated 23rd August 2009 by The Right Reverend Dr John Saxbee Bishop of Lincoln.

DB 14 May 2018

Detail of a fragment of a 13th century coffin lid inserted in the south wall of the nave.

March 2018

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"a large number of fragments of coffin lids of the 13th century, found in the south wall, have been replaced, with their ornamental crosses facing outwards"

DB 14 May 2018 

The round-headed doorway in the west wall of the tower has been restored (probably in the nineteenth century).

March 2018

"C12 round font with interlaced arcading and renewed round stem with 4 shafts"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388470 

DB 27 July 2019

shafted round stem (restored) are typical of the period.

March 2018

A member of the Ellison family of Boultham Hall.

"An accomplished rose grower. He laid out 4 acres of garden at Bracebridge with thousands of roses. 

In 1905 He crossed a Cox's Orange Pippin to create Ellison's Orange"

http://www.itsaboutlincoln.co.uk/ellison.html 

"Ellison's Orange is a connoisseur's mid-season eating apple, described as 'once tasted, never forgotten' on account of its rich flavour and unique aniseed undertones.

It's an Edwardian variety, dating back to 1904 when it was raised by Rev Charles Ellison of Bracebridge Manse, Lincoln and Mr Albert Wipf, head gardener to Rev Ellison's brother-in-law, Joseph Shuttleworth, at Hartsholme Hall in nearby Skellingthorpe.

Charles Ellison was a renowned pomologist with more than 1,500 fruit trees in his gardens ...

Ellison's Orange achieved an RHS Award of Merit in 1911 and RHS First Class Certificate in 1917"

https://www.waterfurlonggardens.com/single-post/2018/09/17/Our-Apple-for-September-Ellisons-Orange

DB 27 July 2019

The former All Saints' Mission Church is located in Ewart Street.

Foundation stones are dated 1885. 

Now a boxing club.

DB 22 January 2019 

One of the foundation stones for All Saints' Mission Church dated 1885.

DB 22 January 2019 

"C19 half-round traceried stone pulpit"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388470 

DB 27 July 2019

Memorial plaque placed by the National Malaya & Borneo Veterans Association, Lincoln & Districts Branch.

http://www.nmbva.co.uk/index.htm 

DB 27 July 2019

"Triptych war memorial, pre-Raphaelite style, c1920"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388470 

DB 27 July 2019

The south porch, with its cusped openings with shafts, is built in the Decorated style. Inside the porch is a rib vault and an eleventh century doorway with dogtooth band.

March 2018

"Tower raised and reroofed 1892 by C H Fowler. Restored 1895 and C20"

"West tower, 2 stages, has long-and-short quoins, string course, south-east buttress and pyramidal roof.

To west, a round headed doorway and above it a round headed light"

"Bell stage has double round headed openings on each side with round shafts and various early Romanesque capitals" 

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388470

DB 14 May 2018

A well-decorated war memorial to those who served in the First World War.

March 2018

"The church was erected in the Early Decorated style in 1903 to designs by the architect C. Hodgson Fowler.

It contains decoration, rood screen and stained glass dating from the early 20th century by Ninian Comper.

The church is noted as having an altar slab from Bardney Abbey"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Church,_Lincoln 

Peter Kirk Collection, 3 March 1990

Looking east towards the sanctuary.

"East end has panelled dado and oak reredos by Fowler, decorated by Comper"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388692 

DB 1 August 2019

Chancel window by Clayton & Bell.

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

Christ in Majesty shown at the top of the central light with the Lamb and symbols of his passion above.

Surrounding Christ are depictions of Saints, Prophets and Angels.

DB 1 August 2019

"The organ dates from around 1906 and was by the London builder Henry Willis.

It has since been renovated and modified.

It is widely regarded as one of the finest organs in Lincolnshire.

A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Church,_Lincoln 

DB 1 August 2019

Looking east towards the chancel.

Rood by Sir (John) Ninian Comper.

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

DB 1 August 2019

Looking west towards the font.

"Nave has 5-bay arcades with fillet moulded quatrefoil piers, moulded arches with hoodmoulds and stops"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388692 

The triple lancets, at the west end above the font, are known as the "Jesse Window". The figure of Jesse is reclining across the bottom of the central lancet.

Jesse is a figure described in the Bible as the father of David, who became the king of the Israelites - the role as both father of King David and ancestor of Christ has been used in various depictions in art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse 

Coffee morning in progress. 

DB 1 August 2019

"Octagonal sandstone font with clustered stem, C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388692 

DB 1 August 2019

"Traceried octagonal oak pulpit and sounding board by Fowler"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388692 

DB 1 August 2019

Looking east towards St Hugh's Chapel.

DB 1 August 2019

One of many stained glass windows by Comper this one in the north aisle depicting St Botolph.

St Botolph is the patron saint of travellers.

DB 1 August 2019

Picture of Alfred Shuttleworth, a major benefactor of the church, on display in the north aisle.

"Clayton & Shuttleworth was an engineering company located at Stamp End Works, Lincoln"

"In 1870 the company's workforce in Lincoln numbered 1,200.

The export trade was important to the firm; a branch in Vienna (Austria) was established early on, and other branches followed in Pest (Hungary), Prague (now Czech republic), Cracow (Poland) and Lemberg (now Ukraine).

The firm became a limited company in 1901, and Alfred Shuttleworth (1843-1925), son of the founder, became chairman"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_%26_Shuttleworth 

DB 1 August 2019

"North and east windows by Comper, 1937, that to east flanked by single figures and by aumbry and piscina.

Painted wooden altarpiece by Comper"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388692 

"Sir (John) Ninian Comper (10 June 1864 - 22 December 1960) was a Scottish-born architect.

He was one of the last of the great Gothic Revival architects, noted for his churches and their furnishings.

He is well known for his stained glass, his use of colour and his subtle integration of Classical and Gothic elements which he described as unity by inclusion"

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

DB 1 August 2019

Stained glass in the east window by Sir (John) Ninian Comper 1937.

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

Lincoln Cathedral had been badly damaged by an earthquake in 1185 and the stained glass shows St Hugh, who became Bishop of Lincoln in 1186, directing the rebuilding operation.

St Hugh's swan is seen at the bottom of the window - a reference to the story of the swan of Stow which had a deep and lasting friendship with the saint.

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

DB 1 August 2019

"Chapel of St Hugh has 2 western arches with a figure of St Hugh on a bracket on the central pier"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388692 

DB 1 August 2019

Looking east towards the Lady Chapel.

"Shouldered arch with tympanum by Comper, and a figure on a bracket to the right"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388692 

DB 1 August 2019

Brass plaque celebrating the consecration of All Saints Church by Edward King, Lord Bishop of Lincoln on 5th November 1904.

Edward King was a prominent Anglo-Catholic who was prosecuted for ritualistic practices. Later, many of King's liturgical practices became commonplace. 

The calendar of the Church of England remembers King with the status of a "lesser festival" or "black letter day" on 8 March, the date of his death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_King_(bishop_of_Lincoln) 

DB 1 August 2019

Located at the east end of the south aisle.

Altar slab from Bardney Abbey.

DB 1 August 2019

East window with stained glass depicting the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary. 

DB 1 August 2019

"The Altar in this Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary was found in Bardney Abbey Church where it had lain neglected since the year 1539 and was reconciled by William Shuckburgh Bishop of Lincoln on Saint Botolph's day in the year 1922"

DB 1 August 2019

War memorial from the former United Methodist Chapel, Silver Street, Lincoln.

The chapel closed after a final service on 29 September 1940 and the building was demolished in the 1970's.

The memorial was found buried in a garden in Cherry Willingham! Subsequently moved to All Saints Church, Monks Road, Lincoln and re-dedicated Sunday 25th November 2007.

http://www.thelincolnshireregiment.org/silverstreetmemorial.shtml 

One of the names is that of Leonard James Keyworth VC :-

"For most conspicuous bravery at Givenchy on the night of 25-26th May, 1915.

After the assault on the German position by the 24th Battalion, London Regt, efforts were made by that Unit to follow up their success by a bomb attack, during the progress of which 58 men out of a total 75 became casualties.

During this very fierce encounter Lance-Cpl Keyworth stood fully exposed for 2 hours on the top of the enemy's parapet, and threw about 150 bombs amongst the Germans, who were only a few yards away.

* London Gazette, 2 July 1915

He later achieved the rank of Corporal, but was killed in action at Abbeville, France, on 19 October 1915"

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

DB 1 August 2019

First World War memorial unveiled 16 June 1922 in a ceremony attended by the Bishop of Lincoln.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/54074 

DB 1 August 2019

Part of a group parish with nearby St Helen's Church.

Holy Cross was built when the needs of the parish outgrew St Helen's.

St Helen's is now used only occasionally for services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boultham_Parken.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boultham_Park 

DB 17 October 2018

Rear view of the church which faces onto Skellingthorpe Road.

DB 17 October 2018

Foundation stone - the only church in Lincoln to have finished building during the Second World war.

Frederick Cyril Nugent Hicks (1872-1942) was Bishop at this time.

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

DB 17 October 2018

View of the sanctuary. 

DB 31 July 2019

Modern stained glass.

DB 31 July 2019

Looking east towards the chancel.

DB 31 July 2019

Looking west towards the font.

DB 31 July 2019

Throne and chairs.

DB 31 July 2019

Presumably contemporary with the church c.1940.

DB 31 July 2019

Presumably contemporary with the church c.1940.

DB 31 July 2019

Organ console.

Maker's plate reads

"COUSANS SONS & CO.

CITY ORGAN WORKS,

LINCOLN" 

http://www.cousansorgans.co.uk/history.html 

DB 31 July 2019

At the east end of the south aisle.

DB 31 July 2019

Ellacombe apparatus for ringing church bells at the west end of the south aisle in the church porch.

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

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. 

This is the chancel of the 12th century church of the abbey, the cell of St Mary's Abbey, York.

The eastern part (facing the camera) was rebuilt in the 13th century and the windows renewed a century or so later.

April 2016

This is the unbuttressed chancel of the original 12th century abbey church. The windows seen here on the south side, with their Perpendicular tracery, were renewed c.1400.

April 2016

This church, built in the Early English style by James Fowler in 1877 with seating for 600, stood on Canwick Road.

The chancel was decorated by G F Bodley.

It was demolished in 1968.

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

St Benedict's church, on the west side of the High Street below High Bridge, has a late Anglo-Saxon tower with twin bell openings.

Much of the building dates from the 13th and 14th centuries. It is the home of the Mothers' Union for the Lincoln Diocese.

The city's principal war memorial stands to the west of the church on the site of the graveyard shown in this photograph.

Postcard, 1905

View of the church from the north-east with the early thirteenth century chancel to the left and the north chapel to the right.

The City's principal war memorial can be seen on the extreme left.

December 2017

Viewed from the north-west, the tower which was rebuilt in the seventeenth century with Anglo-Saxon features such as the twin bell openings.

December 2017

Much of the church was demolished at the time of the Civil War. The nave and tower are part of the seventeenth century reconstruction.

December 2017

"St. Benedict's Church, Lincoln is an ancient church in Lincoln which is mentioned in 1107 and before the English Civil War was the Lincoln Civic Church.

It was extensively destroyed in the Civil War, and was only partially restored.

The tower was re-built imitating the other late Saxon towers in Lincoln.

All that survives is the present nave, which was the chancel of the former church' and the chapel to the north built by Robert Tattershall in 1378.

The church's bell known as Old Kate, was cast in 1585 and paid for by the Lincoln Barber's Surgeons Company.

The church was closed in 1931 and demolition was proposed. However, following a public outcry, the church was saved as the result of an appeal and renovation work undertaken"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Benedict%27s_Church,_Lincoln 

DB 27 September 2018

"Late C18 eggcup font with swags and square stem"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388746 

DB 23 August 2018

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 south from the former north chapel.

Currently headquarters of the Lincoln Diocese Mothers' Union and regularly opened to the public serving teas, coffee etc hence the tables seen in this image. 

(In January 2019 The Mothers' Union Centre moved to a new office at St Peter at Gowts Church Hall and unfortunately the building is now closed DB 2019)

DB 23 August 2018

"IN MEMORY OF MRS ANNE DAWSON RELICT OF MR WILLIAM DAWSON LATE OF THIS CITY AND DAUGHTER OF JOHN ATKINSON LATE OF BUSLINGTHORP HALL IN THIS COUN'Y GENT: SHE BECAME IMMORTAL JAN'Y 10, 1739 IN THE 63 YEAR OF HER AGE"

DB 12 April 2018

Memorial brass " ... JOHN BECKE CITIZEN AND ALDERMAN AND TWICE MAYOR OF THIS CITIE OF LINCOLNE AND MARIE HIS WIFE WHO HAD BY HER ISSUE 10 CHILDREN ... DEPARTED THE 9 OF DECEMBER 1617"

DB 31 May 2018

Memorial to the noted Lincoln architect William Adams Nicholson (1803-1853) who was a founding member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. 

"Possibly Nicholson's most important contribution was in the design of Workhouses.

His pioneering Southwell Workhouse (1824) was important forerunner of the radially planned workhouses of the New Poor Law ...

As well as working in the Gothic revival style of architecture, Nicholson could also work very effectively in classical styles.

He designed the Mansfield Town Hall in a Grecian style portico with Doric columns.

More striking is the Corn Exchange of 1847 in the Cornhill Lincoln. Here he has a projecting portico with Corinthian columns at Piano nobile level ... "

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

DB 20 October 2018

Memorials to Tyrwhht Smith d. 1826 and family.

"one of the Aldermen of this CITY" 

DB 27 September 2018

George II Royal Coat of Arms dated 1734 but repainted 1819.

Churchwardens in 1734 were I.Harrison and J.Jellis.

Churchwarden in 1819 was John Kirton.

DB 12 April 2018 

"West tower 1721 by Henry Grix.

Nave and north aisle 1861, by Henry Goddard.

Chancel rebuilt 1878, and south aisle and south chapel added 1884 by William Watkins"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388596 

In 2018 Saint Botolph became the Greek Orthodox Church of St Basil the Great & St Paisios.

DB 8 September 2018

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"St. Botolph's church, in High street, a plain edifice of stone erected in 1723 to replace the original cruciform Church which became ruinous in 1646, was enlarged and improved in 1878, the chancel being extended and a north aisle added; it now consists of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, organ chamber, vestry and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock, the gift of parishioners and friends, and 5 bells:

the handsome pulpit, erected in 1903, was the gift of the parishioners in memory of the late Dr. Ellis:

the stained east window was the gift and work of the late Rev. Frederick Heathcote Sutton M.A. rector of Brant Broughton :

the piscina and sedilia were constructed from portions of the ancient church:

in 1880 a new north aisle, organ chamber and vestry were added at a cost of £1110:

an organ, cost £550, erected by Mr. Norman L. Heald, of Norwich, 1904 :

in 1886, a south aisle, separated from the chancel by a stone screen, was built at a cost of £600, of which £550 was contributed by the Bishop of Lincoln; its eastern end, inclosed by a light iron screen, forms a side chapel conveniently arranged for daily services; all these alterations were carried out under the direction of Mr. W. Watkin, architect, the total cost being about £2,000:

there are 350 sittings"

In 2018 Saint Botolph became the Orthodox Church of St Basil the Great & St Paisios. 

DB 8 September 2018

Excellent church histories available :-

https://lincolnwigfordhistory.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/complete-mike-garrett-dissertation-st-botolph-by-bargate-church.pdf 

https://www.lincstothepast.com/St-Botolph-s-church-and-churchyard--High-Street--Lincoln/905482.record?pt=S 

In 2018 Saint Botolph became the Orthodox Church of St Basil the Great & St Paisios. 

DB 8 September 2018

An excellent view of the church from the north-west (across High Street). Trees along the west side of the yeard now screen the church.

Peter Grey Collection, 1968

South end of the High Street, behind Pattersons Tailors and near The Shakespeare Public House.

Was being used as a Community Arts Centre IMPart.

DB 4 February 2019

In 2018 Saint Botolph became the Orthodox Church of St Basil the Great & St Paisios.

Looking east towards the chancel and the newly installed iconostasis.

DB 8 September 2018

The 1919 Lincoln Directory published by J.W. Ruddock & Sons states :-

"ST. BOTOLPH'S, High Street-Services, Sunday, 8 and 11 a.m ; 2.45 and 6.30 p.m.; daily, 8 a.m. and 7.30 p.m., Holy Communion Thursdays, 7.I5 a.m., Holy Days, 7.I5 and 8 a.m. Vicar, Rev. C. C. Fowler, St. Botolph's Vicarage, South Park; Curate, Rev. L. Smith; Parish clerk, Chas. Johnson, 457 High Street.

ST. KATHERINE & ALL SAINTS, MISSION CHURCH, Newark Road Holy Communion (Choral) 3rd Sunday, 9 a.m:, Evensong 6.30 p.m.; Evensong, Thursday, 7.30 p.m. (branch of St. Botolph)" 

In 2018 Saint Botolph became the Orthodox Church of St Basil the Great & St Paisios.

Looking east towards the chancel and the newly installed iconostasis.

DB 8 September 2018

"A stone font of simple chaste design was presented by the Rev John Fowler (who was the Headmaster of the local Grammar School)"

https://lincolnwigfordhistory.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/complete-mike-garrett-dissertation-st-botolph-by-bargate-church.pdf 

Probably of a similar date 1903 to the pulpit.

In 2018 Saint Botolph became the Orthodox Church of St Basil the Great & St Paisios. 

DB 8 September 2018

Saint Botolph has rcently become The Orthodox Church of St Basil the Great & St Paisios.

"In August 2018 we moved to our own church in High Street, Lincoln where we recently installed our iconostasis"

http://orthodoxlincoln.org/ 

DB 8 September 2018

St Faith's Church (now St Faith & St Martin) in Charles Street in the West End was built by C H Fowler in 1895.

December 2017

St Faith's was built in the style of the Perpendicular period.

Red brick (possibly local) was laid in English bond.

December 2017

The bellcote consists of a corbelled out brick tower with louvred timber openings and a slated pyramidal roof.

December 2017

Window in the south wall of the nave with tracery in typical Perpendicular style. A pink sandstone has been used for the tracery.

December 2017

"St. George's Church is an evangelical Anglican church"

"The church itself was built in the 1960s"

https://stgeorgeslincoln.org.uk/about-us/our-story/ 

A brass plaque states that the porch was dedicated by the Bishop of Grantham 6th September 1992 and was partly funded by sale of the bell which hung in the original tower. 

DB 7 November 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

Looking south into the nave.

(Church is oriented north/south)

DB 15 January 2018

Nave altar positioned on the east side of the church.

DB 15 January 2018

The church viewed from the south-west.

March 2018

View from the south-east.

March 2018

Positioned near the southern entrance to the church.

DB 15 January 2018

By Wadsworth and Brother, organ builders, of Manchester.

The organ used by the previous St George's Mission Church is now in St Michael's Church, Thorpe on the Hill.

A press cutting dated 21 July 1960 states :-

"In 1917, when St Georges Mission Church was built at Swallowbeck, the Mansell family, jewellers, of Lincoln, bought and gave this instrument to the church in memory of Harry Champion Mansell, killed in France.

The organ did noble service there for 43 years until the new church of St George's was opened this year, and the instrument was bought for Thorpe on the Hill and completely restored by the makers"

DB 15 January 2018

Built in 1936, St Giles is a copy in red brick of the 18th century church of St Peter-at Arches, demolished a few years earlier.

The building incorporates some masonry and fittings from the 18th century church which stood at the junction of High Street and Silver Street in the City.

February 2012

Built in 1936, St Giles is a copy in red brick of the Georgian church of St Peter-at Arches, demolished a few years earlier in the centre of Lincoln.

The building incorporates some masonry and fittings from the 18th century church.

February 2012

Original village church of Boultham.

"Part of a group parish with nearby Holy Cross parish, which was built when the needs of the parish outgrew St Helen's.

St Helen's is now used only occasionally for services"

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

Boultham Parish has its own website with a photo gallery of both churches.

https://sites.google.com/view/boultham-parish-website/home 

DB 23 April 2018

"Church. C13. Chancel rebuilt 1864 by Michael Drury. Nave extended and restored 1887 by C H Fowler"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388566 

DB 23 April 2018

Boultham Park "includes a 13th-century church dedicated to Saint Helen.

This was restored by C. Hodgson Fowler in 1887.

Part of a group parish with nearby Holy Cross parish, which was built when the needs of the parish outgrew St Helen's.

St Helen's is now used only occasionally for services.

Outside the church is a memorial to the Crimean war, erected in 1858"

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

Peter Kirk Collection, 6 August 1989

Crimean war memorial c1858 in Saint Helen's churchyard.

"BROUGHT FROM

SEVASTOPOL

AND PLACED HERE BY

MAJOR R.G. ELLISON

IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF HIS COMPANY

47TH REGT 

WHO FELL IN THE CRIMEAN WAR" 

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388567

DB 23 April 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

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

It is one of several structures he created in which the roof shape is a hyperbolic parabola and is constructed in 3-inch reinforced concrete covered in aluminium.

The roof's low points to the north and south originally dipped into pools of water.

Undated postcard

The church viewed from the south-west. The two low points of the roof are now fenced off to prevent unauthorised accees to the roof.

November 2017

View from the north-west. Porch and service rooms are constructed in cast concrete.

November 2017

At the corner of Newark Road and Clumber Street

The Directory of the City of Lincoln published by JW Ruddock & Son 1919 states :-

"ST. KATHERINE & ALL SAINTS, MISSION CHURCH, Newark Road Holy Communion (Choral) 3rd Sunday, 9 a.m:, Evensong 6.30 p.m.; Evensong, Thursday, 7.30 p.m. (branch of St. Botolph)"

elsewhere in the Directory the church is referenced as " St. Catherine's and All Saints"

After closure it had been used as an office and store building but is now divided into apartments.

DB 28 January 2019

Date stone reading 26th June 1912.

DB 28 January 2019

Built by William Watkins in 1871-2 on High Street close to the St Marks (Midland) Station, this large 13th century style church was demolished in 1971.

It contained some Norman fragments from the original church on this site.

Undated postcard

The Directory of the City of Lincoln 1919 published by J.W.Ruddock & Sons states "ST. MARK's CHURCH is a small stone edifice in the Early-English style of architecture with a neat spire, designed by Mr. WILLIAM WATKINS, of Lincoln.

Several Norman arch-mouldings are built into the walls of the north transept, which was formerly used as a vestry ; other relics of the previous buildings are also preserved.

In the tower is the famous bell known as " Old Kate," first swung in the year 1585 in St. Benedict church. The clock was the gift of parishioner, the late R. S. HARVEY, Esq.

There is seating accommodation for 300 persons.

The living is a vicarage held since 1910 by the Rev. T. H. CHATTERTON" 

Undated postcard ""Lincoln Imp" series"

Removed from Saint Mark's Church prior to its demolition in 1971 this panel by Morris & Company has been restored by Lincoln Cathedral Works Department.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_%26_Co. 

On display in Lincoln Cathedral. 

DB 23 August 2018

Former Sunday School / Church Hall now an RSPCA Shop in St Mark's Street.

In the 1901 City Directory published by J.W.Ruddock it is described as :-

"St. Mark's Day School-Miss Jackson. head-mistress"

and in the 1919 City Directory as :-

"St. Mark's Sunday School"

DB 30 July 2019

Date stone for MDCCCLXXV (1875).

DB 29 July 2019

The church of St Martin stood at the corner of Orchard Street and West Parade.

The last church on the site - shown here - was built in 1873 by A S Beckett and demolished in the 1970s.

This wall tablet from the former Saint Martin's church has been relocated to the Fleming Chantry in Lincoln Cathedral.

In memory of George Davies Kent vicar for more than 50 years who died 1849.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Martin%27s_Church,_Lincoln 

DB 11 October 2018 

The date stone reads "ST MARTIN'S PARISH HALL 1923".

More recently used by the Workers' Educational Association for adult education. 

Located on the east side of Beaumont Fee.

DB 25 February 2014

The church of St Mary le Wigford stands on the High Street close to the Central Station.

The tower is Anglo-Saxon and the rest of the church is essentially Early English.

To the west of the church, right alongside the street, is a conduit brought from the Whitefriars in 1540.

Postcard, 1908

Apart from the tower the church dates from c.1200 though the windows visible in this photograph (the north aisle) are from a later period.

December 2017

The tower, viewed here across High Street, is the oldest and most significant element of the church.

December 2017

View from Lincoln Central Station footbridge.

"Church. C11, C12, C13. South aisle 1877 by Leach of Cambridge.

Restored 1872 by R C Clarke of Nottingham.

Tower restored by Watkins & Son, 1908.

Additions and alterations 1975"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388597 

DB 18 October 2018 

Outside on the west face of the C11 tower a Roman memorial stone has been re-used as the church dedication stone.

http://www.stmarylewigford.co.uk/history/  

"Eirtig had me built and endowed to the glory of Christ and St. Mary, XP"

DB 31 May 2018

"C15 buttressed octagonal font"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388597 

DB 18 October 2018 

View looking west towards the C11 tower arch.

"Chamfered tower arch has a C20 glazed screen. Above it, a round headed doorway"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388597 

DB 31 May 2018

Kelly's Directory 1930 states :-

"St. Mary Magdalene's is a building of stone, in the Decorated style, consisting of nave, north aisle and an embattled western tower containing 2 bells :

the original church was destroyed by Bishop Remigius to make room for the minster; a new church was erected about 1294, by Bishop Oliver Sutton, but this structure, ruined in the siege of 1643, was rebuilt in 1695 ;

in 1882, the church, with the exception of the four outer walls, was rebuilt from designs by G. F. Bodley esq. A.R.A., F.S.A. architect ; the cost, £3,501, being defrayed by voluntary contributions:

the two stained windows in the south side of the chancel were erected in 1911 to the memory of Thomas Martin esq. J.P. and two others in the north side in 1924 to Lt.-Col. E. Mansel Sympson M.D.:

there are 230 sittings".

DB 26 August 2019

The entry in White's Directory 1872, prior to the church being rebuilt in 1882, reads :-

"ST. MARY MAGDALEN (commonly called the Chequer Church), was built about the reign of Edward I., when the Exchequer Gateway, to which it adjoins, was erected.

It is a small plain building, which was repewed and repaired about the year 1840, at a cost of £200, and contains 232 sittings.

Here is a massive octagonal stone font, and a good organ which was supplied by Nicholson.

The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the King's Book at £5, and now at £120.

The Dean and Chapter are patrons, and the Rev. Henry Wollaston Hutton is the incumbent".

DB 10 December 2018

East window set high above the altar.

DB 26 August 2019

Pevsner comments "Nice Bodleian ceiled wagon roof, decorated with crosses in the chancel".

DB 20 October 2018

"C19 ... font with mask corbels".

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388540 

DB 26 August 2019

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

Boxed crucifix on the north wall with First World War roll of honour.

DB 10 December 2018

This modest church stands at the corner of Burton Road and Yarborough Crescent. It was built in 1800-91 by E P Loftus Brock*.

In recent years is has been used as a church for the Greek Orthodox community.

November 2017

* Edgar Philip Loftus Brock (1833-1895) FRIBA was a Scottish archtect. Much of his work was in his native country.

St Matthias's is built of rock-faced stone with lancet windows. The shingled bell turret, noted by Pevsner, no longer stands.

On 28 September 1940 the building was seriously damaged when a Hampden bomber, returning to base at RAF Scampton, crashed into the south side.

November 2017

"The present church of St Michael-on-the-Mount was built in 1855-6 to a design by S S Teulon in the Geometrical style and replaced an earlier church that was too small for the population of the parish"

"There has been a church on this site since at least the early medieval period"

"The church survived the Reformation but was reduced to ruins in 1644 during the Civil War"

"It was not repaired but instead was replaced by a new church, built to the north of the original (and the current building), in 1739-40, partly due to the efforts of the antiquary Thomas Sympson.

This building, which was very small, was itself replaced by the current church in the 19th century"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Church-and-churchyard-of-St-Michael-on-the-Mount/237459.record?pt=S 

Declared redundant in 1998 and is now a private house. 

Peter Kirk Collection, 25 November 1989

The north-east corner of the church.

Jews' Court collection, 1978

This church, designed by S S Teulon, was consecrated by the Bishop of Lincoln on 16 September 1856.

Lithograph by W Walton

The view from the west of the south side of St Nicholas's Church, Newport, Lincoln.

The church was built in 1839 to replace a medieval church in the same parish but not on the same site.

September 2013

The church was built in 1839 and is notable for being the very first of the many churches designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott.

The building is in Early English style and has a south-west tower with broach spire.

February 2014

"East end has sill band, and a stepped triple lancet with hoodmould"

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

DB 8 November 2018

West front.

"Parish church. 1839. By Sir GG Scott and WB Moffatt, and said to be their first church.

Restored, and baptistry added, 1879-90.

Chancel and north aisle 1908, by CH Fowler"

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

DB 8 November 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

Following construction of the new chancel 1908-1910 the church was reconsecrated 10th March 1910 by Bishop Charles Corfe the first Bishop of Korea standing in for Bishop Edward King who had died two days earlier.

DB 8 November 2018

Following an 1879 Faculty "a three light stained glass window was installed at the east end depicting the Crucifixion at a cost of £260, the money being raised by subscriptions and guarantees"

A new chancel was built 1908-1910 however the east window was carefully removed and re-positioned in the new chancel. 

http://www.stnicholaslincoln.org.uk/history/page2/ 

DB 8 November 2018 

Octagonal C19 font.

Moved to second bay of north aisle in 2002. 

DB 8 November 2018

Church timeline states :-

"Altar used by 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment in Sumatra moved from St. Matthias Chapel of Ease to St. Nicholas Church North Aisle.

Also brass tablet Commemorating men who died in action at Poona, Dinapore and Lucknow 1919-1928"

DB 8 November 2018

Nave looking east towards the chancel.

DB 8 November 2018

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

"The old harmonium was replaced by an organ in 1868, built by the local firm of Nicholson of 21 Newport, at a cost of £217 19s 0d"

Organ refurbished 1999.

http://www.stnicholaslincoln.org.uk/history/page2/ 

DB 8 November 2018

C19 pulpit. 

"Octagonal oak skeleton pulpit with sounding board"

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

DB 8 November 2018

The small Georgian church, built in 1786, was replaced by a larger church in 1877.

Excavation has shown evidence for a succession of churches here, the earliest being timber buildings of possibly the 5th or 6th century.

The site lies within what was the forum of Roman Lincoln.

View from the north-east.

Undated postcard

Sir Arthur Blomfield built this church on the corner of Westgate to replace a Georgian building in 1877.

It was declared redundant and demolished in 1982.

Drawing of the south elevation.

Typical of the period, it was built in polychromatic bricks (pale yellow and red)

St Peter at Arches in Lincoln (c1720) was an early Georgian Church which stood at the junction of the High Street and Silver Street until 1936 when it was moved to Lamb Gardens on the North-East edge of the city and rededicated to St Giles.

Postcard, 1907

This drawing by Grimm (1784) shows St Peter at Gowts on the lower High Street prior to the nineteenth century restoration, when the nave (1888) and north aisle (1853) were rebuilt.

The west tower dates from the later Anglo-Saxon period.

The recessed bell-stage has twin bell-openings with mid-wall shafts.

"Church. C11, C12, C13, C14.

North aisle and porch 1852, by W A Nicholson.

Chancel enlarged 1887 by C H Fowler"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388599 

DB 2 February 2019

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"St. Peter-at-Gowts is a building of stone, in the Pre-Norman, Earlier English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, chantry, nave, aisles and a western tower containing 6 bells:

it derives its distinctive name from the gowts or watercourses, of which several run in its immediate vicinity, and as now standing has been almost wholly restored; the tower and the south side of the church, a work of the Lancet period, represent the original structure:

a monumental arch, opening into the south transept or chantry, bears a singular rhyming inscription, in medieval Latin and in Lombardic characters, to the memory of Ralph Joluf and his wife, the founder of the chapel, which formerly contained an incised slab two crosses and bearing his name; it runs thus :-

"Radulfus Joluf, sua conjux ac Amicia,Hic Simul humatur, quibus ista capella paratur. Virgine Mater Theos qui sibi salvet eos Pro quibus oretis opus hoc quicunque videtis."

There are several stained windows in the church, and some excellent mural decorations :

there is also a finely carved stone reredos and a Norman font:

in 1852 the north aisle was built, in the Decorated style, and the church new roofed:

in 1887 the church was again restored and considerably enlarged, at a cost of £2,200, under the direction of the late Mr. Hodgson Fowler:

there are now 475 sittings"

DB 8 September 2018

White's History, Gazetteer & Directory of Lincolnshire 1872 states

"ST. PETER's at Gowts, is a small but neat stone fabric, comprising nave, with north and south aisles, a chancel with south chantry chapel, a vestry, and a square lofty western tower, through which is the principal entrance.

The church was enlarged by the addition of a north aisle and vestry, and re-pewed and restored in 1853, under the direction of Mr. Drury, at a cost of £1200.

It presents some features similar to those of St. Mary's, especially its tower, which, though less ancient, is a more interesting specimen of Norman architecture, and contains in its front elevation an ancient carved figure of St. Peter holding the keys.

In the south wall of the chancel is an ancient sepulchral arch, round which is an inscription recording its erection by Radulfus Joluf, a Lincoln merchant, who died in the year 1347" ...

"The building contains 350 sittings, a massive circular Norman stone font, is furnished with an organ, built by Nicholson, of Lincoln, and warmed with a hot water apparatus, supplied by Simpson.

The three small chancel windows are filled with stained glass.

The living is a vicarage, now valued at £110, and is in the gift of the Bishop, and incumbency of the Rev. Roderick B. Mackenzie, MA"

DB 8 September 2018

The chancel was enlarged in 1887 by C. Hodgson Fowler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Hodgson_Fowler  

"A hanging rood was installed in 1920 by Temple Lushington Moore"

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

DB 8 September 2018

Looking west from the chancel.

DB 8 September 2018

Following the closure of St Andrew's church in 1968 the parish was renamed as St Peter-at-Gowts and St Andrew.

In 1984 the area beneath the Organ Gallery, at the end of the north aisle, was re-ordered to form a chapel dedicated to St Andrew.

DB 8 September 2018

"C11 tub font with blind arcading, on a renewed stem"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388599 

DB 8 September 2018

A NEARBY plaque states :-

"THIS PRESENT ORGAN AND CASE BUILT BY

MESSRS NICHOLSON OF WORCESTER AND.

MESSRS BRIDGEMAN OF LICHFIELD. WAS

DEDICATED ON 30TH JUNE 1940. BY THE

REV. CANON C. CARLETON

WITH THE ADDITION OF TWO NEW STOPS

THE ORGAN IS A COPY OF THE ONE GIVEN

IN 1907 BY THE REV. PREBENDARY W.RAYSON

AND DESTROYED BY FIRE IN JANUARY 1939

THE ORIGINAL ORGAN STOOD IN THE FLOOR

H.B. FAWKES VICAR 

S.A. CARTWRIGHT ORGANIST

VICTOR HEAL ARCHITECT"  

Saint Andrew's chapel beneath. 

DB 8 September 2018

The upper plaque states

"THE CHANCEL AND NORTH AISLE OF THIS CHURCH WERE ENLARGED AND RESTORED CHIEFLY THROUGH THE PIOUS LIBERALITY OF THE REVD JAMES WESTON TOWNROE (VICAR) BY WHOM THE FOUNDATION STONE OF A NEW PIER WAS LAID ON JUBILEE DAY (JUNE 21ST) 1887.

CONSECRATED BY EDWARD LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN AND THE FIRST SERMON PREACHED BY EDWARD LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ON THE SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT DECEMBER 4TH MDCCCLXXXVII." 

Trowel used for the foundation stone seen below. 

DB 8 September 2018

C19 pulpit.

DB 8 September 2018

Lady Chapel at the east end of the south aisle would originally have been the chantry chapel founded by Radulfus Joluf in 1347.

DB 8 September 2018

Glass depicting from left to right Saint Peter, Christ and Saint Mary.

DB 8 September 2018

"West tower, unbuttressed, 2 stages, has chamfered plinth, quoins, string course, eaves band, coped parapet and pyramidal roof.

Round headed west doorway, C19, with relief in tympanum.

Above, a round headed window, and above again, a clock and a similar window, both with hoodmoulds"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388599 

DB 4 February 2019

First World War memorial designed by Temple Lushington Moore and unveiled in 1920.

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

A single name added at the bottom from the Second World War.

DB 8 September 2018

West end viewed from Northgate.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of St. Peter-in-Eastgate-with-St.-Margaret is a building of stone, in the Early English style, erected in 1870, from designs by the late Sir A. W. Blomfield, architect, at a cost of about £3,000, and consists of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a western hell cot containing one bell :

the reredos, representing " Our Lord's Commission to St. Peter." was erected in 1884 to the memory of the late F. Burton esq. and his wife, by their four sons: at the same time the walls and roof of the chancel were redecorated, both works being executed from designs by G. F. Bodley esq. A.R.A., F.S.A. architect:

there are eight stained windows:

in 1894 two vestries and a narthex porch were added and an organ provided by Alfred Shuttleworth and Nathaniel C.Cockburn esqrs. as a memorial to the late Nathaniel Clayton esq.:

the organ was reconstructed and enlarged in 1900 at the expense of A. Shuttleworth esq.:

in 1914 a south aisle, a rood and screen were added by A. Shuttleworth esq.:

the church has 350 sittings"

In 2009 the pews were removed and replaced with new chairs. 

DB 27 June 2019

Closer view of Saint Peter's crossed keys on west face of the church.

DB 24 December 2019

White's Directory 1872 states :-

"The new Church of ST. PETER-EASTGATE, the foundation stone of which was laid Sept. 29, 1869, by W. H. Smyth, Esq., the D.P.G.M. of the Freemasons of Lincolnshire, was consecrated on St. Peter's day, 1870, and serves as the parish church of the united parishes of St. Peter-in Eastgate and St. Margaret-in-the-Close, which have formed one consolidated benefice since 1778, when the church of the former was rebuilt, and that of the latter taken down.

It is a handsome stone edifice, in the Early Geometrical style of architecture, erected upon the site of the old church, from the designs of A. W. Blomfield, Esq., a son of the well-known Bishop of London of that name, at a cost of about £3000, contributed by the parishioners.

It comprises nave, north chancel, vestry, and south porch, and in the western end is a gable turret with one bell.

The arcade of four pointed arches separating the nave from the aisle, is supported by cylindrical pillars of stone plainly moulded; and in the chancel, the floor of which, consisting of encaustic tiles, is considerably higher than that of the nave, are two stone sedilia, whose spandrils are ornamented with finely carved diaper-pattern work.

The building, which is fitted up with good open benches accommodating 500 persons, is heated by means of a hot water apparatus, and provided with a finely toned organ, built by Nicholson.

A beautifully stained glass window has been placed in the chancel in memory of the late incumbent, the Rev. George Rigg, by his brother; and a memorial window in the nave to Miss Harriott S. Smyth, is similarly embellished.

The benefice is a vicarage, valued at £300 a year, in the gift of the Bishop, and incumbency of the Rev. James M. Barrett, M.A., prebendary of Welton Rivall, and Diocesan inspector of schools, for whom a good Vicarage House was built a short distance from the church in 1870, by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, at an expense of £1,400.

The Rev. Alfred Halford Adcock, B.A., is curate; Mr. W. Dixon, organist; and Mr. Sharp, clerk".

DB 21 December 2019

C19 round font on clustered stem.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388534?section=official-list-entry 

DB 25 April 2022

Tower and spire - together 200 feet high - were built in 1884-87.

The design - with the spire supported by flying buttresses from the tall pinnacles - is based on that of St James's church, Louth.

Edwardian postcard

St Swithin's is one of the grandest of James Fowler's churches.  Work began with the nave and aisles in 1869, the tower being finally completed in 1887.

The building, which shows  Decorated and Early English styles, was largely funded by local industrialists Clayton and Shuttleworth and their families.

January 2014

The Directory of the City Of Lincoln 1919 Printed & Published by J. W. Ruddock & Sons 287 High Street, Lincoln states :-

"ST. SWITHIN'S CHURCH is a large building in the Decorated style, erected from the designs of Mr. FOWLER, of Louth; for several years it was without a chancel, but one has since been added the principal subscribers towards the cost being Messrs. CLAYTON & SHUTTLEWORTH.

It is adapted to hold a congregation of 800.

The tower was erected in 1887 by ALFRED SHUTTLEWORTH, Esq., to the memory of his father, JOSEPH SHUTTLEWORTH, Esq.

The living is a vicarage held since 1918 by the Rev. ERNEST FRANCIS WOOD, M.A."

DB 26 February 2019

Nathaniel Clayton, Lincoln engineer, laid this foundation stone for St Swithin's church in 1879.

Jan 2019

"St Swithin's was relaunched in October 2014 by a team sent by Holy Trinity Brompton, at the invitation of the Bishop of Lincoln"

https://www.stswithins.org/aboutus 

DB 28 December 2012

View looking west towards the tower.

"Nave has 6 bay arcades with round and octagonal piers"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388543  

DB 28 December 2012

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

The bell-stage of the tower at St Swithin's has trellis decoration similar to that of the cathedral, c.1240.

January 2014

The frieze at the top of St Swithun's tower carries an inscription marking the dedication of the building to Joseph Shuttleworth by his son Alfred.

Alfred Shuttleworth (1843-1925), successful industrialist in the city  (Clayton and Shuttleworth), funded the construction of the church.

November 2019

A key to three of the stained glass windows in the chancel from L to R :-

South Eastern Window Over Sanctuary - The gift of Alfred Shuttleworth Esq. in loving memory of his wife Mary Ann d.1880

East Window - This window was erected by Joseph Shuttleworth Esq. in affectionate memory Sarah Grace of his wife d.1849.

South Western Window Over Choir Stalls - Given by N.Clayton Esq. in memory of his parents

DB 28 December 2012