Swallow - Holy Trinity

Swallow - Holy Trinity
Copyright John Firth and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence

A lovely church, the oldest part of which is the base of the tower (11th century) although most of what can be seen is Victorian restoration. There will be an exhibition on VE Day. This year our exhibition will include personal reminiscences and souvenirs of the Queen’s seventy years reign.

Postcode: LN7 6DL click here to find on Google Maps

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Open: 7-8th May - Saturday 9.30am - 6pm • Sunday 9.30am - 6pm

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Willingham by Stow - St Helen

Willingham by Stow, St Helen (by Richard Croft, source)

St Helen’s stands in the centre of the village and forms an integral part of the community. Whilst of Norman origin, the body of the church was almost entirely rebuilt in 1880 and the tower is thought to date back to the 14th century. It has several old stained glass windows as well as two modern windows.

There will be a display in the church and light refreshments will be served throughout the day. 

We are also open Friday 13th May, 10am-4pm.
 

Postcode: DN21 5JY, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 14-15th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 10am - 4pm

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Wragby - Methodist

Wragby Methodist Church - Photo Richard Croft (Creative Commons License)

The present building was built in 1874. The organ was dedicated in 1921 in memory of those who served and those who died in WWI. A display of farming /garden related materials will be within the church.

 
Postcode: LN8 5RA, click here to find on Google Maps

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Open: 7-8th May, Saturday 10.am - 5pm • Sunday 12noon - 5pm

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Legsby • St Thomas

Photograph by Richard Croft, source

Early medieval, Norman arches and Norman font bearing traditional double rope carving around top edge. The lychgate entrance is dedicated to those who lost their lives in WWI. Come along and enjoy a peaceful setting. Hot beef rolls served with locally produced beef.

Postcode: LN8 3QW, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 7-8th May, Saturday 11am - 3pm, Sunday 11am - 3pm

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Brookenby - St Michael & All Angels

Brookenby - St Michael & All Angels. Photo Grimsworth Source

St Michael & All Angels is a vibrant friendly and welcoming church set in the beautiful 

Lincolnshire Wolds. Established in 1992, the church is currently located at the west wing of the former RAF Binbrook Sergeants Mess. Alongside our worship area, the church comprises of
a number of rooms including our church charity shop, community store and All Angels tea shop. We have a small photographic display of RAF Binbrook memorabilia available for you to view as well as hot drinks and cakes for you to enjoy.

Postcode: LN8 6ER, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 7-8th May, Saturday 10am-4pm • Sunday 10am-2pm

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Laughton • All Saints

Laughton • All Saints, image Richard Croft: Source

Warm and friendly old church. Bodley restoration ceiling, chancel, rood screen, reredos (restored 2016). Large medieval knight for brass rubbing. War memorial book viewing.

Postcode: DN21 3PP, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 14-15th May, Saturday 10.30am - 5pm • Sunday 10.30am - 5pm.

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Waddingham • St Mary & St Peter

Waddingham • St Mary & St Peter
(photo Richard Croft, Creative Commons Link)

Situation is east of main village on a high mound; a very peaceful location. Originally two churches stood here but now only this one remains. Stations of the Cross are mounted on the walls around the church. (History of the church leaflets available and graveyard plans also available).

The church has its own website here: 

https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/14904/

Postcode: DN21 4SU, click here to find on Google Maps.

Open: 14-15th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 10am - 4pm

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Reepham • St Peter & St Pauls

Reepham • St Peter & St Pauls
(photo Richard Croft, Creative Commons Link)

An exhibition entitled ‘Past, present and future’ will feature archive material (photographs, maps and historical documents) of the village and lead onto display of the recently developed Neighborhood Plan. 

A short graveyard tour will tell the tale of some of the earlier residents of the parish. 

Website link: www.ReephamHeritage.org.

Facebook Group: The Reepham I Remember

Postcode: LN3 4DQ, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 14-15th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 11am - 4pm

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Kirton in Lindsey • St Andrew

Kirton in Lindsey • St Andrew
(photo Richard Croft, Creative Commons Link)

The church is Norman/Early English and Grade I listed. The stone font, stained glass windows, bell ringing chamber and restored chancel are of particular interest. Local history display.

Postcode: DN21 4PJ, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 14-15th May, Saturday 10am - 5pm • Sunday 12noon - 5pm

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Grayingham • St Radegund

Grayingham • St Radegund
(photo David Wright, Creative Commons Link)

Discover the past rectors of Grayingham, most 18th and 19th century rectors are buried in the churchyard. Find out about Revd White 1851- 1890 and his large family. See the numerous items donated by him to St Radegund which will be on view. Church and school records from the archives. Play the Benjamin Flight organ. 

 

Food all day, baps filled with local produce, drinks and home made cakes. Plants and cakes to buy plus our special blueberry scones.r

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Postcode: DN21 4ET, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 14-15th May, Saturday 10am - 4.30pm • Sunday 10am - 4pm

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Gainsborough • All Saints

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

A very different Georgian style church with medieval tower and a magnificent interior. The altar piece is a copy of the Da Vinci painting of The Last Supper. The organ is a 3 manual Walker (1906). See too, the beautiful stained glass and a display depicting connections with the Pilgrim Fathers as well as John Wesley and his family.

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Postcode: DN21 2JR, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 14-15th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 12am - 4pm

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*Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity

Fiskerton • St Clement of Rome

Fiskerton • St Clement of Rome
(photo Richard Croft, Creative Commons Link)

The north door is Norman, as are all the arches between the nave and chancel and the north aisle. Beautiful stained glass in the East and Skepper windows. Remembrance books and links with the RAF Squadrons within the Lady Chapel.

Postcode: LN3 4ES, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 14-15th May, Saturday 11am-4pm • Sunday 11am-pm.

The Stephen Langton Trail The Stephen Langton Trail passes through or near six festival churches where you can stop for refreshments, click on their names to open their pages of this site:

1. Langton 

1. Wragby

1. Apley

1. Fiskerton 

1. Greetwell 

1. Cherry Willingham

A 16.5 mile walking trail from the birthplace of Archbishop Stephen Langton, key in the sealing of Magna Carta, to the historic city of Lincoln.

The Stephen Langton Trail starts at the Lincolnshire village of Langton-by-Wragby, birthplace of Archbishop Stephen Langton, and takes a meandering and picturesuqe 16.5 mile walk to historic Lincoln and Lincoln Castle, home to an original copy of the 1215 Magna Carta.
The trail is split into three sections to allow for all abilities and so the walk can be split up over a space of time:

• Section One leads from Langton-by-Wragby to Apley through the Lincolnshire Limewood Nature Reserve (4 miles)

• Section Two from Thistle Storr Wood near Apley to Fiskerton along the Viking Way (6¼ miles)

• Section Three follows the River Witham Valley from Fiskerton on a delightful riverside walk to Lincoln's Cathedral Quarter (6¼ miles).

Click this link to read more at the Visit Lincoln website

Click this link to view and download the PDF of the trail 

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Corringham • St Laurence

Corringham - Copyright Churches Festival - Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

The building has pre-conquest and late Norman features. The Victorian restoration, finished in 1884, was overseen by architects Bodley & Garner. The reredos, painted roof and organ case date from this period. When the medieval rood screen was discovered, it was reinstated with the top structure completed to original design. There will be talks on the church each day at 11.30am and 2pm.
 

Corringham - Copyright Churches Festival - Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Our church also has a beautifully restored Bodley Ceiling. 

Postcode: DN21 5QY, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 14-15th May, Saturday 10.30am - 4pm • Sunday 10.30am - 4pm

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

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Bishop Norton • St Peter

Grade II* listed St Peter’s sits in the heart of the village. It has three bells and a delightful stained glass East Window. There is a medieval tympanium in the tower wall, an ancient sarcophagus, a Joyce of Whitchurch clock and a 150 year old Nicholson organ. The lychgate is
our War Memorial.

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Postcode: LN8 2BE, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 14-15th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 10am - 4pm

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Stainfield • St Andrew

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

This beautiful Queen Anne church sits on the site of a former Benedictine nunnery, surounded by parkland. This year, an original exhibition entitled ‘Consider the works of our hands’,  elebrating local craftspeople and their skills, will complement the 18th century Tyrwhitt tapestries on display in the church. Come and admire their talents. Items for sale for church funds. Homemade cakes, lunches and afternoon teas available at Hill House all weekend.

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*
The Tyrwhitt Tapestries dating from 1711 permanently displayed in church,

Postcode: LN8 5JL, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 7-8th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 10am - 4pm.

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Middle Rasen • St Peter and St Paul

Middle Rasen St Peter and St Paul - Copyright Churches Festival       Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

A warm welcome awaits everyone at St Peter & St Paul’s. Through the south entrance door, a splendid example of Norman work with three bands of mouldings of continuous motif, an inner zigzag, a middle band of crenellation and an outer band of beakheads. It is among the country’s most impressive Norman doorways. Displays will focus on ‘The Queen - Service before Self’.  Ploughman’s lunches, cakes, tea and coffee served both days..

 

Postcode: LN8 3TS, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 7-8th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 12am - 4pm. 

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*Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity

Market Rasen • Methodist Church

Market Rasen • Methodist Church
(image Colin Babb: Creative Commons Link)

LLarge impressive Grade II* listed Methodist Church open in 1863. Original piped organ. Doored pews. Balcony and large front pillars. The building is kept in good condition which still gives it the “wow” factor to those who enter the church for the first time. 

Spring Fayre; Saturday morning 10am - 1pm with light lunches available between 11am and 1pm.

Market Rasen Methodist Interior - Copyright Churches Festival

Postcode: LN8 3AG, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 7-8th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 12noon - 4pm

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Claxby • St Mary

Claxby St Mary - Copyright Churches Festival *

You will get a warm welcome at this 14th century church, much altered in the 1870s. We have good Victorian stained glass, a founder’s tomb and an elaborate 16th century memorial as well as two corbel ends showing faces with tongues sticking out. We will also have a display of farming memorabilia including models of old farm wagons.

Memorial Window for Georg Ogg - Copyright Churches Festival *

As you open the door... Copyright Churches Festival *

Copyright Churches Festival *

Postcode: LN8 3YX, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 7-8th May, Saturday 10am-4.30pm Sunday 10am-4.30pm

* Photographs by Ashley Taylor of Push Creativity for the festival

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Caistor • Methodist Church

Caistor • Methodist Church
(Photo Peter Croft, link to source with license details)

A Victorian Grade II listed building built in 1842. The listing includes the pews, decorative ceiling rose and organ with pump handle and balcony with doored pews. Open planned interior has been sympathetic to the character of the building..

Postcode: LN7 6UF, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: Saturday 7th May only, 10am-4pm

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Caistor • St Peter & St Paul

Caistor • St Peter & St Paul
(photo Richard Croft - Creative Commons Link)

The church has a fine collection of kneelers worked by members of the congregation. Magnificent window by Kempe and Burlinson and Grylls. We are holding a ‘Pets Service’ on Sunday 8th May at 2pm. All well behaved pets welcome!

Postcode: LN7 6UG, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 7-8th May, Saturday 10am-4pm • Sunday 11.30am-4pm

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