Scamblesby

Scamblesby, Methodist Church

Since 2013 this Methodist Church has been a dual purpose building, occasionally used for worship but also a venue for meetings, retreats and quiet days.

It also provides facilities for tourists, walkers and others wishing to enjoy the Lincolnshire Wolds.

The church, built in 1977, replaced an earlier Wesleyan Methodist chapel on the site, originating in 1835.

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The building was last used by the Methodist Church in 2023

Scamblesby, Methodist Church, Wolds Methodist Centre

Scamblesby, Methodist Church

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Horncastle & Bardney Circuit Past And Present" Prepared By Colin Shepherdson & Anthony E G Whiting September 1997 states :-

"i) A chapel was erected in 1795 on the old main road.

ii) A second chapel was built on a new site at the bottom of Rowgate Hill in 1836, enlarged in 1868 and demolished in 1977 to make way for a replacement opened on the 7.1.1978.

The date stone of the old chapel is built into the back wall. It is still in use with a membership of 15".

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Scamblesby, Methodist Church, Wolds Methodist Centre

Scamblesby, Methodist Church

Interior view of the chapel.

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Scamblesby, Methodist Church, Wolds Methodist Centre

Scamblesby, Methodist Church

"Candle lamp thought to have been mounted by the entrance to the original chapel" - i.e. the one closed and demolished in 1977.

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Scamblesby, Methodist Church, Wolds Methodist Centre, lamp

Scamblesby, Methodist Church

Images of the previous Wesleyan Methodist Chapel displayed in the new Wolds Methodist Centre.

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Scamblesby, Methodist Church, Wolds Methodist Centre

Scamblesby, Methodist Church

Images of the previous Wesleyan Methodist Chapel displayed in the new Wolds Methodist Centre.

William Hewson, a lifelong member of the chapel, is the man pictured here.

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Scamblesby, Methodist Church, Wolds Methodist Centre

Scamblesby, Primitive Methodist Chapel

Scamblesby's Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1850 on the north side of the main road (A153) to the west of the village centre. It closed in 1936 when the two Methodist congregations in the village joined to worship in the former Wesleyan Methodist chapel.

Scamblesby, Primitive Methodist Chapel

Scamblesby, St Martin

St Martin's consists of aisled nave, chancel and western bell-cote, and largely dates from the rebuilding by R H Fowler in the early 1890s.

Made of greenstone with limestone dressings and slate roof, it is typical in style, design and materials of small country churches in the Wolds.

One of the piers, however, has characteristic Norman zig-zag decoration, and came from the now demolished church at Cawkwell.

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Scamblesby, St Martin, R H Fowler, Cawkwell, zig-zag

Scamblesby, St Martin

View of St Martin's church from the south-east.

Peter Kirk Collection, 1991

Scamblesby, St Martin

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"The church of St. Martin is a small edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, small aisles and a western turret containing one bell.

The turret was restored in 1823, and in 1890-91 the chancel was entirely rebuilt by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and in 1893 the nave was rebuilt at a cost of £800, under the supervision of Mr. Reginald H. Fowler, architect, of Louth"

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church

Scamblesby, St Martin, Bench Ends

The second bench end from the left has been repaired with a section of new wood let in.

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church, Poppy Head

Scamblesby, St Martin, Bench Ends, Poppy Head

Poppy headed pew ends.

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church, Poppy Head

Scamblesby, St Martin, Bench Ends, Poppy Head

Poppy headed pew ends.

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church, Poppy Head

Scamblesby, St Martin, Bench Ends, Poppy Head

This is perhaps the best preserved of the poppyheads.

At first glance it seems to show a woman wearing a fine head dress, but close inspection shows that her face is surrounded by an open mouth with large teeth, suggesting she is in the jaws of hell.

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church, Poppy Head

Scamblesby, St Martin, Bench Mark

This flush bracket benchmark is set into one of the buttresses on the north side of the nave. The height is 265.9 feet above Newlyn datum.

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church, Bench Mark

Scamblesby, St Martin, Chancel

The chancel was entirely rebuilt by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1890-91.

The banner, standing to the left of the altar, is still used and in good condition It was made from a section of fabric from the Coronation of our Queen Elizabeth II.

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church, chancel

Scamblesby, St Martin, East Window

In memory of Christopher Bell Robson of Cawkwell House. Churchwarden of the parish for 15 years.

The right-hand light shows Saint Martin cutting his cloak in half; the left-hand light shows Christ walking on the lake.

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

Dated 1908.

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church, Christopher Bell Robson, cloak

Scamblesby, St Martin, Font

The font is thirteenth-century but was apparently removed from the church at the 1893 restoration and replaced with another that was considered more suitable.

In 1931 it was recovered and brought back into church. The expense involved was "at the cost of members of the Thornedike family of Old and New England and the font cover was provided out of a legacy from Miss E A Wilkinson in 1947" to quote the framed notice above it.

The 1893 font designed by Reginald Fowler was given to St Andrew's church, Farlesthorpe

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205227

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church, font

Scamblesby, St Martin, Foundation Stone

This stone is set into the west end of the nave outside, below the west window.

The inscription reads:

THE NAVE OF THIS/ CHURCH WAS TAKEN/ DOWN AND REBUILT/ A.D. 1893/ ALFRED J SODEN VICAR/ C B ROBSON/ J R BOURNE CHURCHWARDENS

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church, Foundation Stone, Soden, Robson, Bourne

Scamblesby, St Martin, Interior looking East

View looking east towards the chancel.

"Pointed, double chamfered chancel arch with hood mould and corbelled responds"

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church

Scamblesby, St Martin, Interior looking East

This view across the nave shows many of the 18 original bench ends - not just the poppy heads - which are said to have been saved from the church of St Peter at Cawkwell.

Jean Howard, 6 April 2022

Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church

Scamblesby, St Martin, Interior looking West

View looking west.

C19 pews however the poppy headed pew ends look older?

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church

Scamblesby, St Martin, Lectern

This well-carved oak lectern was given by C Dix of London.

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church, Lectern, C Dix

Scamblesby, St Martin, Memorial (Grantham)

The memorial for Reading Grantham is made from a slab of limestone with two small columns of streaked marble flanking the inscription.

Grantham died in 1869.

[Note: These details have been carefully checked. There are errors in the listing description

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205227 ]

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church, Reading Grantham, P. Belton

Scamblesby, St Martin, Memorial (Thorndike)

The monument is for Margaret Thorndike nee Coppinger, daughter of the Revd Henry Coppinger, vicar of Lavenham, Suffolk.

She was born 1 May 1592, married Francis Thorndike in 1614 and possibly died soon afterwards.

The Latin is hard to decipher and abbreviated but there is a verse in English which reads:

THE RIGHTEOUS SOULE HER TOMBE OF FLESH FORSAKING/ NO JET, NO MARBLE MONUMENT REQUIRES/ BUT TO HER PLACE NY (NIGH?) GOD ABOVE BE TAKING/ THE HART ON EARTH NO OTHER TOMBE DESIRES/ AND ENVIES NOT THOSE POMPOUS NAMES WHOSE LIVES/ MONY AND SKILL, NOT LOVE AND SORROW, GIVES/ FRANCISCUS THORNDIKE L.M.P.

[Note: These details have been carefully checked. There are errors in the Historic England Listing Description]

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205227

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church, Margaret Henry

Scamblesby, St Martin, Pier

"The easternmost pier in the south arcade is re-used late C12 fabric from the demolished church of Cawkwell, with octagonal, chevroned pier with 4 [detached] columns"

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church, Cawkwell, Pier

Scamblesby, St Martin, Pulpit

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"The oak pulpit was presented by the pupils of the Rev. Thomas White B.A. vicar 1860-91:

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church, pulpit, Rev. Thomas White

Scamblesby, St Martin, Triptych

This triptych was given by M L Robinson and is displayed above the altar in the south aisle. It is a reproduction in miniature of one by Hans Memling designed for a family chapel in Lubeck Cathedral in Germany.

The original is now kept in St Annen-Museum, which houses Germany's biggest collection of mediaeval sculpture and altar-pieces.

The panels show, from left: St Blaize; St Aegidius; the Crucifixion; St John the Baptist; St Jerome.

Jean Howard, 6 April 2022

Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church, Triptych, St Blaize, St Aegidius

Scamblesby, St Martin, War Memorial

First World War memorial.

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Scamblesby, Saint Martin, Church

Scamblesby, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

This was the second chapel built by the Wesleyan Methodists in the village. It opened in 1836 and was demolished in 1977.

The new Methodist chapel was built on the same site in 1978.

Scamblesby, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel