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Dunholme - St Chad

Dunholme - St Chad (photo supplied by church)

Early 13th century church featuring an ancient stone font in the Norfolk pattern.

Within the nave, no two pillars are alike with some of the hood mouldings having small head stops.

Radiating lines are believed to have oriental and possibly solar origins, and are a rare feature found only in Lincolnshire.

Interesting stained glass, monuments and memorials with particular reference to the rood screen figures carved by Mahomet Phillips, a Congolese sculptor born June 1876 in a small Congo settlement.

Postcode: LN2 3QT

Opening times: 16th-17th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 1pm - 4pm

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Crowle - St Oswald

Crowle - St Oswald (photo supplied by church)

St Oswald’s is a Grade I listed church which features significant Norman architecture from the 12th century including a richly carved door arch (Stone) and corbels (including braided lady).

Remodelled in the 15th and 19th centuries inside the nave is the Crowle Stone.

Notable Wordsworth three manual organ.

Late 19th century stained glass windows with two further windows dedicated to the memory of the fallen in World War I.

Postcode: DN17 4LE

Open: 16th-17th May, Saturday 9am - 4pm • Sunday 10.30am - 4pm

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Amcotts - St Mark

Amcotts - St Mark (photo supplied by church)

Built in 1853 on the site of an earlier chapel, St Mark’s is a lovely community church in a very small village that hosts many community events.

There will be a special preview of the Vermuyden 400 years exhibition for the Rose Queen event on the 25th May 2026 to mark Charles I appointing Cornelius Vermuyden to drain parts of the Isle of Axholme.
Local Boards showing Amcotts past and present on display.

Local Boards showing the Flixborough Disaster and the forgotten village of Amcotts will also be on display.

And a children’s butterfly garden.

Postcode: DN17 4AL

Open: 16th-17th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 10am - 4pm

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Appleby - St Bartholomew

Appleby - St Bartholomew (photo supplied by church)

This is a Victorian rebuild. It has an ancient Romanesque font, a Flemish pulpit, a medieval tomb unnamed, some lovely windows including one from Kemp as you go in on the left.

We have wooden angels in the ceiling of the nave playing musical instruments. On the sister church St John’s in Scunthorpe the angels hold tools of the iron trade.

We have a clock without a face and from the top of the tower on a clear day you can see the Wolds.

We have the grave of Thomas Dunhill an English composer.

Postcode: DN15 0AH

Open: 16th-17th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 10am - 4pm

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Thornton Curtis - St Lawrence

St. Lawrence's church, Thornton Curtis by Jonathan Billinger CC-BY-SA-2.0

St Lawrence’s church is a Grade I listed building at the heart of the village of Thornton Curtis and is both beautiful and historic.

The truly outstanding feature of the interior is the 12th century black Tournai font.

The font is rare and attracts many visitors.

Behind the 17th century altar table lies an original mensa.

Postcode: DN39 6XW

Open: 9th-10th May, Saturday 11am - 3pm • Sunday 11am - 3pm

Photo: St. Lawrence's church, Thornton Curtis by Jonathan Billinger CC-BY-SA-2.0

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Kirmington, St Helena School

Kirmington, St Helena School, photo supplied by church

Built in 1883 as a house before opening as a school in October 1883.

Hosted evacuees during the war. The School house was home to the headmaster and his wife for many years.

Postcode: DN39 6YP

Open: 9th-10th May, Saturday 2pm - 4pm • Sunday CLOSED

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Ashby - Wesley Methodist Chapel

Ashby - Wesley Methodist Chapel (photo supplied by church)

The chapel which opened in 1907 was probably the last of its type to be built. It contains a fully pewed two storey sanctuary with a gallery all round, a large rostrum pulpit and the organ in a chamber behind the pulpit.

A unique feature of the church is its windows. A memorial to 27 men connected to the church who died in the 1914-18 War. There are four dedicatory windows and sixteen named windows.

Postcode: DN16 2JT

Open: 16th-17th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 12.30pm - 4pm

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West Torrington - St Mary

West Torrington - St Mary (photo supplied by church)

St Mary’s is known as St Gilbert’s other church. Grade II listed, with church cross registered as a listed monument.

Grave of the Reverend Thomas Mossman who was the vicar here from 1862, when the church was rebuilt.

Postcode: LN8 5SQ

Open: 9th-10th May, Saturday 11am - 3pm • Sunday 11am - 3pm

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Wrawby - St Mary

Paul Glazzard, St Mary's Church, Wrawby, CC BY-SA 2.0

A church has existed in Wragby since the year 627 and is mentioned in the Doomsday survey of 1068, being the oldest surviving building in Wrawby. St Mary’s shows traces of various periods in history with the tower dating from the 13th century, and the font from the 14th. Much was rebuilt in the 1800s. the north porch was built in 1887. The church stands in peaceful grounds and is now also used for worship by the Wrawby Methodist Church.

Postcode: DN20 8SL

Open: 9th - 10th May, Saturday 11am - 3pm • Sunday 12 noon - 3pm

Photo: Paul Glazzard, St Mary's Church, Wrawby, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Ulceby - St Nicholas

John Beal, St Nicholas Church, Ulceby, CC BY-SA 2.0

St Nicholas’ Church is a Grade 1 listed building on a site where there has been a church since the Saxon period. The building is of national P architectural significance with a rood screen linked to Thornton Abbey. Other highlights include 15th century pew ends, a stained glass window dedicated to vicar Henry Flowers (who himself appears in the window), and a memorial to someone killed in one of the very first railway accidents. BBQ lunches, stalls, books, musical performances, bellringing and more!

Postcode: DN39 6TB

Open: 9th - 10th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 10am - 4pm

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Cadney - All Saints

David Hitchborne, Cadney cum Howsham - All Saints, CC BY-SA 2.0

Grade I All Saints church is a hidden treasure. Parts date back to the 12th century. It is a beautiful, peaceful calm place to visit with many interesting historical features, and volunteers will help point out these, to anyone who would like to know more. On Saturday there is a Teddy bear parachuting event, bears can parachute from the church tower, in a fun event for all ages. Bring your own bear, or borrow a bear to take part.

Postcode: DN20 9HS

Open: 9th - 10th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 10am - 4pm

Photo: David Hitchborne, Cadney cum Howsham - All Saints, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Scawby - St Hybald

David Wright, St Hybald Church, Scawby, CC BY-SA 2.0

St Hybald, a little known Saxon saint of the 7th century was probably the Abbot of Hibaldstow. Only three other local churches are dedicated to him: those in Ashby de la Launde, near Sleaford; Manton (although this is now a private dwelling) and our neighbouring village of Hibaldstow where he is believed to have been buried.

The earliest recorded church in Scawby now only survives in the lower part of the 14th century tower.
After a ‘fire’ in 1839 the rest of the church was rebuilt and extended.

St Hybald’s contains many funereal monuments to the Nelthorpe family, who lived in the adjacent Scawby Hall.

Postcode: DN20 9AE

Open: 16-17th May, Saturday CLOSED • Sunday 10am - 4pm

Photo: David Wright, St Hybald Church, Scawby, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Redbourne - St Andrew

Ian S, St Andrew's, Redbourne, CC BY-SA 2.0

This peaceful church, built largely in the 14th and 15th centuries, has a tall, slender tower and a dramatic Georgian glass window of the Day of Judgement (1830).

The interior is a mix of Decorated and Perpendicular with Georgian and Victorian.

There are excellent 18th and 19th century monuments, ducal hatchments of the St Albans family, and the incised slab of Gerald Sothill (1410).

Redbourne’s WW1 war memorial is located within the church.

Our homemade cakes are also excellent!

Postcode: DN21 4QN

Open: 16-17th May, Saturday 10am - 5pm • Sunday 10am - 5pm

Photo: Ian S, St Andrew's, Redbourne, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Hibaldstow - St Hybald

David Wright, St Hybald, Hibaldstow, CC BY-SA 2.0

We are one of only 3 churches in the country dedicated to St Hybald - the other two being our sister church in Scawby and Ashby-de-la-Launde. And we have the particular honour of having the bones of St Hybald himself buried under our chancel.

The village name Hibaldstow means ‘burial-place of St Hybald’ and dates back to at least 664 AD. It is thought the St Hybald, possibly a pupil of St Chad, set up a mission station or monastery in what became Hibaldstow, and was eventually buried there.

Despite the long history of Christian worship, the present church dates from 1866 (chancel) and 1875 (nave), and the tower was rebuilt in the 1960s.

St Hybald’s occasionally plays host to pilgrimages to see the relics of St Hybald.

Postcode: DN20 9RA

Open: 16-17th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 10am - 4pm

Photo: David Wright, Hibaldstow Church, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Gate Burton - St Helen

Richard Croft, St Helen's Church, Gate Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0

St Helen’s church, Gate Burton is a beautiful estate church of 1866 by Sir G. G. Scott, with a west tower, nave and chancel.

It has geometrical tracery. The font is Norman and drum shaped, and decorated with segmental arched arcading, revealing flowers or faces.

Coffees and light snacks will be served in the church on the open weekend.

While the road is marked private, access to the church is permitted.

Postcode: DN21 5BA

Open: 16-17th May, Saturday 9am - 4pm • Sunday 9am - 3pm

Photo: Richard Croft, St Helen's Church, Gate Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Broughton - St Mary

Richard Croft, St Mary's Church Broughton, CC BY-SA 2.0

St Mary’s church can safely be dated from 1066, although the tower is possibly earlier, giving evidence that there has been a centre of Christian worship in Broughton for over 900 years at least. There are many interesting features in St Mary’s including architecture from various periods in its history, Lindsey type grave slabs, and monuments to the Redford and Anderson families.

Postcode: DN20 0HY

Open: 16-17th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 12noon - 4pm

Photo: Richard Croft, St Mary's Church Broughton, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Bottesford - St Peter Ad Vincula

St Peter ad Vincula, Parish Church, Bottesford, by Christ Morgan

On the edge of what was once a small village this surprisingly large and breath-taking grade 1 church, is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Early English style largely dating from 13th century with 14th and 16th century aisles, the 14th century tower houses a ring of six bells dating from 1710 to 2002, which are rung regularly. A warm welcome awaits those who come to experience the incredible craftsmanship of our ancestors with some fascinating features. Enjoy light refreshments which will be available throughout. Well behaved dogs also welcome.

Postcode: DN16 3RD

Open: 16-17th May, Saturday 9am - 4.30pm • Sunday 12noon - 4.30pm

Photo: Chris Morgan, St Peter ad Vincula, Parish Church, Bottesford, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Barlings - St Edwards

J Hannan-Briggs, St Edward, Barlings, CC BY-SA 2.0

This pretty church, once part of the Abbey of Barlings, has been the centre of quiet worship for 900 years. The church has Norman and 14th Century western parts, and the Eastern end is Victorian renovation. A group of worshippers of the Barlings group meets here monthly in this beautiful and peaceful spot. This, year, only our second as part of the Festival will see light refreshments available, alongside a small display of calligraphy, and a warm welcome for visitors.

Postcode: LN3 5DG

Open: 9th-10th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 10am - 4pm

Photo: J Hannan-Briggs, St Edward, Barlings CC BY-SA 2.0

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Willingham by Stow - St Helen

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There will be themed displays on the church and light refreshments will be served all day, including bacon and sausage baps up to lunchtime.

Postcode: DN21 5JY

Open: 16-17th May, Saturday 11am - 4pm • Sunday 11am - 4pm

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Messingham - Holy Trinity

Holy Trinity - Messingham by Richard Croft CC BY-SA 2.0

A Grade II* listed church, greatly restored in the early 19th century, including the installation of an extensive collection of medieval stained glass by Revd. H.V. Bayley working in collaboration with architect Edward Willson.

This year you are warmly invited to visit and enjoy the creative work of local artists and makers. Our theme is ‘Colour’.

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holytrinitymessingham.co.uk

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Postcode: DN17 3SF

Open: 16-17h May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 12noon - 4pm

Photo: Holy Trinity - Messingham by Richard Croft CC BY-SA 2.0

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