The former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Chapel Lane, North End, was built in 1867, to replace and earlier chapel of 1804.

The last service was held here in 1978.

The rather weather-beaten date plaque ('Wesleyan Methodist 1867') remains on the gable end of the redundant chapel, now converted into a dwelling.

September 2020

This church shares the same churchyard as St. Adelwald's, Alvingham.

The building is a mixture of twelfth and thirteenth century work although there is a small Saxon window in the chancel.

The interior contains box pews.

Mark Acton, 2008

On the left is St Mary's church, North Cockerington; on the right St Adelwald's of Alvingham.

Peter Kirk Collection. 1996

Pevsner states :-

"Declared redundant in 1981 and now preserved by the Redundant Churches Fund.

St Mary was built as the chapel to the Gilbertine priory and lies in the same churchyard with St Adelwold Alvingham, and nearer the village of Alvingham.

Both are approached the homely way through a farmyard"

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church went to decay several centuries ago, and no traces of it now remain:

the inhabitants use the priory chapel of St. Mary in the adjoining parish of Alvingham.

The register dates from the year 1646.

The living is a vicarage, consolidated with that of Alvingham, joint net yearly value £250, including 138 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and held since 1914  by the Rev. Joseph Arthur Bunch"

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Viewed from northeast.

"Chapel to Gilbertine Priory, now parish church to village of North Cockerington. C11, late C12, c.1300, C14, C19.

Greenstone, ironstone and limestone coursed rubble, limestone ashlar, some brick, some render"

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Pevsner states that the communion rails are High Victorian c. 1870.

C20 choir stalls. 

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Looking east towards the chancel.

"Late C12 south arcade of 2 bays"

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

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Looking west back through the chancel arch and into the nave.

"C14 chancel arch restored in C19"

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View across the nave and into the south aisle.

Pevsner comments "BOX PEWS. A complete set, installed as late as 1841 (according to the vestry minutes)"

Historic England has "C18 box pews"

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C19 pulpit & lectern.

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Glazed panel fitted inside the north window with a poem concerning the nineteen paces between the two churches both sharing the same churchyard.

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Looking east to C19 window.

"Fragmentary medieval stone coffin in south aisle with torso of C14 effigy of knight to east, with long-tailed lion at feet. Several other small architectural, moulded fragments"

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Pevsner comments :-

"Alabaster effigy of a knight, later c 14, sadly mutilated.

No head, no legs, but the lion with a wondrous long tail survives"

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"Plain C13 octagonal font on tall octagonal base"

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