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South Carlton
LocationThe picturesque village of South Carlton is situated on the edge of the limestone cliff to north of Lincoln, just at the point where it dips down to meet the valley of the Trent. The church of...
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North Carlton, St Luke
Location You can see South Carlton church from the churchyard of North Carlton. Like South Carlton, North Carlton and it's manor house were Monson property. The antiquarian sixth Baron Monson visited...
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Stragglethorpe
Location This little and low church crouches in one corner of a farmyard, amid farm buildings redeveloped as holiday lets. As you approach the church from the south everything your eye takes in is...
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Usselby
LocationUsselby is a place I've passed many, many times, as it's just off the main road between Lincoln and Grimsby, but I have to confess I didn't know it existed! Down a little lane between farm...
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Grainsby
LocationThe tiny village of Grainsby is situated just where the Lincolnshire Wolds dips down to meet the marsh. It is a pretty little estate village with a delightful park full of medieval...
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Torksey
Location Torksey is a place of great interest. Built at the point where the Roman Foss Dyke meets the river Trent, the Romans established a town here called Tiovulfingacester. In the seventh century...
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Clixby
Location In 1727 most of All Hallows Clixby was demolished, leaving the chancel to serve as the parish church. Built into the west wall of the chancel are the former chancel arch and the responds of...
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Caenby
Location The tiny church of St Nicholas, consisting of a nave and chancel, is down a lane south of Glentworth. The church, medieval in origin, was restored in 1869 and most of what you see externally...
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Glentham
Location You approach Glentham church from the west and the first thing you encounter is the fairly pedestrian Georgian west tower, built in 1756. As you round the corner you are in for a great...
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Cadney
Location Cadney is in an isolated spot three miles south of the bustling market town of Brigg and is approached along a straight road that passes the site of the Gilbertine Priory of Newstead. The...
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Haugh
Location There is nothing much at Haugh (pronounced Huff), except the tiny church of St Leonard and a sixteenth century manor house beside it. In the Middle Ages the manor of Haugh was owned by the...
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Harpswell
Location St Chad's serves the tiny hamlet of Harpswell with a population of 65. The first thing you see is the Saxo-Norman west tower and then the fine Decorated tracery of the south aisle. Inside...
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Market Stainton
Location In 1989 Henry Thorold described St Michael's, Market Stainton as a 'most endearing little medieval church of greenstone patched with brick'. Twenty years on St Michael's has lost a lot of its...
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Harrington
LocationThe path leading to St Mary's passes between the old rectory and the great seventeenth century hall and its glorious gardens, the inspiration for Tennyson's 'Come into the Garden Maud'. The...
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Ashby Puerorum
LocationAshby Puerorum, Ashby 'of the boys', is so called because in the late thirteenth century the living was appropriated to provide an endowment for the boy choristers of Lincoln Cathedral. Ashby...
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Blyborough
LocationSt Alkmund's Blyborough was restored in 1877-78 by the ubiquitous James Fowler of Louth. Although Fowler is not generally known for being a conservative restorer, his work at Blyborough was...
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Lusby
Location St Peter's Lusby is a fascinating little church, its rust-coloured greenstone walls probably date back to the eleventh century. The north east angle of the nave has long-and-short work and in...
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Aubourn
Location Nestling close to the glorious late Elizabethan Aubourn Hall, Aubourn 'Old Church' is just a fragment of a much larger medieval building. In 1862 a new parish church was built to the west of...
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Normanby-by-Spital
Location St Peter's in Normaby-by-Spital is not a great repository of monuments or a building of great atmosphere, it is a fairly straightforward sort of church. Externally the earliest part of the...
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North Owersby
Location St Martin's is not a particularly exciting church building. Built in 1762-3 by J. Warner of Caistor using medieval masonry, externally it is plain, pedestrian, but pleasant. Inside its white...
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