Conduit House in Belton Park, Londonthorpe. Originally supplied spring water to Belton House and still supplies two troughs in the park.

DB 19 August 2016

South Gates to Belton Park, Londonthorpe Lane, early C18.

Although known as the Lion Gates the lion heads are actually the snow leopard supporters of Viscount Tyrconnel. Unusually the heads point in towards the house.

Lodge moved here in 1810 when the main road from Grantham to Lincoln was altered. 

DB 8 September 2016 

South Gates to Belton Park, Londonthorpe Lane, early C18.

Although known as the Lion Gates the lion heads are actually the snow leopard supporters of Viscount Tyrconnel. Unusually the heads point in towards the house. 

DB 8 September 2016 

Set alongside the Lion Gates leading into Belton Park, Londonthorpe.

The inscription reads "THIS TABLET COMMEMORATES THE FOUNDING OF THE MACHINE GUN CORPS. FORMED 14TH OCTOBER 1915 DISBANDED 15TH JULY 1922 AND PAYS TRIBUTE TO 170,500 OF ALL RANKS WHO SERVED IN THE CORPS. JUNE 1947".

During World War 1 Belton Park became the headquarters of The Machine Gun Corps all of whose members were trained here.

DB 8 September 2016 

Installed 1851 by 1st Earl Brownlow, in Belton Park, Londonthorpe, to commemorate his eldest son Viscount Alford (1812-51). Alford, born John Hume Cust, was MP for Bedfordshire.

The Grade II listed Monument is now just within the bounds of Belton Park Golf Club.

Grade II listed Well Head in Belton Park, Londonthorpe near the Conduit House.

DB 19 August 2016

Few bus shelters attracted the attention of Nikolaus Pevsner.

This late eighteenth-century arch from a conduit house in Londonthorpe found its new use in 1974.

Mark Acton, 2016

"Farm house, c.1730 with extension of 1774"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261914 

DB 25 March 2019

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"Public Elementary-School (mixed), built in 1851 enlarged in 1876, for 57 children, & supported by Earl Brownlow; Mrs. Robinson, mistress"

Former school now a private house. 

DB 25 March 2019

Londonthorpe's church of St John the Baptist has an Early English south arcade and Decorated north arcade.

The clerestory is Perpendicular and the chancel Victorian. The saddleback roof is a rarity in Lincolnshire.

Mark Acton, 2016

View from the north-east of the chancel and north aisle, both dating from the 1850s.

April 2016

"C17 altar rail with balusters"

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

DB 25 May 2023

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

A notice in the church states "The east window depicting St John the Baptist was acquired in 1997 by a former church organist. It was by well known glass designer Henry Holiday and probably dates back to 1910"

"Henry Holiday (17 June 1839 – 15 April 1927) was an English Victorian painter of historical genre and landscapes, also a stained-glass designer, illustrator, and sculptor. He was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, many of whom he knew" 

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

DB 25 May 2023

One of the many interesting gargoyles at the church of St John Baptist.

Mark Acton, 2016

One of the many interesting gargoyles at the church of St John Baptist.

April 2016

One of several grotesques at the church.

April 2016

A grotesque label stop to hood mould.

April 2016

A grotesque label stop to hood mould.

April 2016

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 west towards the font. Evidence of C13 roof pitch on west wall. 

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

Kelly's Directory 1930 reads :-

"The church of St. John the Baptist is a small building of stone, in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel and nave, both with clerestory, aisles, south porch and a western tower with saddle-back roof containing 3 bells :

the porch, south aisle and chancel are embattled, and ornamented with light buttresses and rich pinnacles :

the interior was restored and reseated in 1879 at a cost of £1,047, raised by subscription:

there are 162 sittings"

DB 25 May 2023

View across the nave towards the c.1300 north arcade.

DB 25 May 2023

Chancel screen viewed from nave. 

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

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

DB 25 May 2023

"C15 octagonal font with quatre-foils containing shields on each face"

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

DB 25 May 2023

Head-Stop north arcade.

DB 25 May 2023

Head-Stop north arcade.

DB 25 May 2023

"C19 plain wooden pulpit"

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

DB 25 May 2023

C19 nave roof?

DB 25 May 2023

Looking east towards the organ.

North aisle rebuilt C19. 

DB 25 May 2023

Looking west.

DB 25 May 2023

Memorial to William Harvey d. 1856 and his wife Hannah d. 1839.

Located above the north door 

DB 25 May 2023

"C14 ogee arch recessed into north aisle contains stone effigy of recumbent knight"

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

DB 25 May 2023

Originally in Cheddington Church, Bucks. Funds currently being sought for the organ's restoration.

A video showing its removal from Cheddington Church is available on YouTube. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv9zODe8yBs 

DB 25 May 2023

Thomas Casson positive pipe 1903 church organ.

"The Positive Organ Company (also known as Casson's Patent Organ Co Ltd and Positive Organ Company (1922) Ltd but often referred to as Casson Positive) was an English pipe organ maker, established in London in 1898 by Thomas Casson, although with some earlier antecedents. The firm was best known for small, one-manual organs, which were able to be moved about. It ceased trading in 1941, but the name was revived in 2020 with a new, unrelated organ builder"

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

DB 25 May 2023

"Sculpture fragments of C13 stone coffin lid with foliated cross and part of wheelhead cross"

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

DB 25 May 2023

The porch has battlements and pinnacles and dates from the Perpendicular period. The south aisle alongside is in similar style and of similar date.

April 2016

Interior of C15 south porch. 

"South door has C15 small niche over. Stone side benches to porch"

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

DB 25 May 2023

Looking east towards the war memorial and memorial window.

DB 25 May 2023

Looking west towards the entrance.

DB 25 May 2023

Window depicting St George & St Faith a memorial to Lt. John Baker and his sister Ellen Baker.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/63746 

DB 25 May 2023

Memorial to William Walker d.1809 and his wife Susanna d.1841.

DB 25 May 2023

Memorial to William Gregory Walker born in Londonthorpe 1791 and died in Sleaford 1841.

DB 25 May 2023

Memorial to Jane, widow of William Gregory Walker, who died at Brighton 1864.

DB 25 May 2023

Scroll commemorating Lt. John Francis Baker.

DB 25 May 2023

First & Second World War memorial plaques.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/63745 

DB 25 May 2023

"C13 coursed rubble tower in 2 stages with corner buttresses ... Spire replaced in C19 with saddle back plain tile roof"

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of St. John the Baptist is a small building of stone, in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel and nave, both with clerestory, aisles, south porch and a western tower with saddle-back roof containing 3 bells:

the porch, south aisle and chancel are embattled, and ornamented with light buttresses and rich pinnacles:

the interior was restored and reseated in 1879 at a cost of £1,047  raised by subscription:

there are 162 sittings"

DB 25 March 2019

"IN MEMORY OF JOHN EDWARD WATSON DIED AT GALLE NOVEMBER 15TH 1870 AGED 32 YEARS"

Galle is the provincial capital and largest city of Southern Province, Sri Lanka and is the capital of Galle District.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galle 

DB 25 May 2023

Vestry dated 1852 above the north doorway.

DB 25 May 2023

Pump located on Church Lane near its junction with High Road. Marked on the OS 25 inch map revised 1903 at SK 9534 3797.

DB 25 May 2023

Appears to show the Church, Bellmount Tower in Belton Park and the village bus stop.

DB 25 March 2019

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Grantham Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Allen G Griffin October 1996 (Revised August 1998) it is stated that :-

"i) The foundation stone for the first chapel, on the north side of High Road, was laid on the 28.11.1838.

The chapel is now a private house, "The Old Chapel".

ii) A new chapel was opened on the 26.8.1858.

iii) A third chapel was erected in 1888 and the last service was held in mid 1953"

Date stone of the Old Chapel pictured here reads 1838.  

DB 25 March 2019

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "Here is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1838 and enlarged in 1889"

Geoff Swain Collection 9 May 1994