Holton le Moor • St Luke

Holton le Moor, St Luke. Photo J.Hannan-Briggs, CC BY-SA 2.0

A warm welcome to our outstanding village church with 13th century features set within a beautiful churchyard. 80 years since the end of WWII so our theme is ‘The Stanley Perry Exhibition’. 

Captain Perry was the last surviving Tank Commanding Officer of the Sherwood Ranger Yeomanry. Many fascinating memorabilia items of his life and war time career are featured. Stanley was afforded a military funeral at St Luke’s in 2021. 

Light refreshments and free books too.

Postcode: LN7 6AG

Open: 17-18th May, Saturday 10:30am-4pm • Sunday 10:30am-4pm. 

Photo: Holton le Moor, St Luke. Photo J.Hannan-Briggs, CC BY-SA 2.0

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to find on Google Maps

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X

Stained glass window, St Luke's church, Holton le Moor.
Photo J.Hannan-Briggs, source

Brookenby - St Michael & All Angels

Brookenby - St Michael & All Angels by Ian S

A display of community crafting works will be displayed in the church to represent what the community workshops and church crafting workshops create. The Angels fully refurbished kitchen and café will be open along with the charity shop in the same building as the church.

Postcode: LN8 6ER 

Open: 17-18th May, Saturday 10am-3pm • Sunday 10am-1pm

Photo: Ian S, Brookenby Church, CC BY-SA 2.0

Click here to find on Google Maps

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click these links to

LIKE us on Facebook

FOLLOW us on Instagram

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X.

Nettleham • All Saints

Nettleham All Saints - Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Dating from Saxon times we have many beautiful stained glass windows, including the Hayward East Window. Wall paintings and Bodley and Garner ceilings can be seen. 

Beside the beck, we are a living, thriving church with many and varied activities, central to village life and a place for quiet contemplation and prayer. 

Heritage and school input. 

Sat 11am-11.45am - Lincoln Society of Recorder Players. 

Sat 14pm-3pm - Quarter peel rung on the church bells.

Sun 14.30-15.30 - Songs of Praise - come and join our choir and sing your choice of favourite hymns.

There's more information available at https://www.asn.church/

Postcode: LN2 2PD

Open: 10-11th May, Saturday 10.30am - 4.30pm • Sunday 12noon - 4pm.

Photos: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity

Click here to find on Google Maps

Nettleham All Saints Interior - Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Resurrected Christ among fields and burning stubble, by John Hayward, 1971

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X

*Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity

Laughton • All Saints

Richard Croft, All Saints' church, Laughton, CC BY-SA 2.0

Warm and friendly old church Bodley restoration ceiling, chancel, rood screen, reredos (restored 2016). 

Large medieval knight for brass rubbing. 

War memorial book viewing. 

Choral music, Sunday - 2:30pm.

Postcode: DN21 3PP

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

Photo: Richard Croft, All Saints' church, Laughton, CC BY-SA 2.0

Click here to find on Google Maps.

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X

Glentworth • St Michael

Glentworth St Michael (photo provided by the church)

St Michael’s church is a superb late 11th century church with a stained glass window by Charles Kempe in the Saxon tower. 

It has a fine marble tomb of Sir Christopher Wray, Chief Justice of England during Elizabeth I’s reign, with his wife and children and is an Elizabethan gem. 

Three of his children played leading roles in the spread of puritan ideas between 1600 and 1620 and were associated with the Mayflower Pilgrims that sailed to America from Boston.

Postcode: DN21 5DG, 

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

Photo: provided by the church 

Click here to find on Google Maps

Detail from the Wray marble tomb (photo Angela Montague)

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X

Gainsborough - St Thomas of Canterbury

Gainsborough - St Thomas of Canterbury - photo Angela Montague

The church’s Indian Syro-Malabar community are lending sari dresses for a display. 

There is also information about the WWI memorial. Refreshments will include tea, coffee and cake

Built in 1866 and situated in Cross Street, which is small and narrow, the church is set back from the road. 

The church is only a five-minute walk from Marshall’s Yard retail centre, with car parking. 

Postcode: DN21 2AX, 

Open: 10-11th May, Saturday 9am - 5pm • Sunday 10.30am - 5pm

Photo: Gainsborough - St Thomas of Canterbury - Angela Montague

Click here to find on Google Maps

Visit the church's own website here: St Thomas Gainsborough

Gainsborough - St Thomas of Canterbury - Photo supplied by church

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X

Welton • St Mary

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Lovely church with fine features including: 

Christ Hospital Window, Memorial Window (planes of WWI and submarines).

Two standards from Old Scampton RAF camp.

Stencilling on ceiling above chancel, (Orford monument).

Ad alleged gravestone of Lincolnshire poacher in the churchyard.

Postcode: LN2 3HZ

Open: 10-11th May, Saturday 10.30am - 5pm • Sunday 12.30pm - 5pm

Photo: Copyright Ashley Taylor Push Creativity

Click here to find on Google Maps

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X

*Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity

Waddingham • St Mary & St Peter

Richard Croft, St.Mary & St.Peter's church, Waddingham, CC BY-SA 2.0

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. 

Plant stall selling a variety of locally grown items.

The church has its own website here: 

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

Postcode: DN21 4SU, 

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

Photo: Richard Croft, St.Mary & St.Peter's church, Waddingham, CC BY-SA 2.0

Click here to find on Google Maps

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X

Upton cum Kexby • All Saints

A jigsaw church of many periods from Anglo-Saxon to Victorian. 

There will be a display of kneelers. 

Please note car parking will not be available in the Rose and Crown car park but available in cemetery car park in Church Road.

Postcode: DN21 5NQ

Open: 10-11h May, Saturday 10.30am - 4pm • Sunday 11am - 4pm

Photo: Copyright Ashley Taylor of Push Creativity

Click here to find on Google Maps

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X

Spridlington - St Hilary

Spridlington St Hilary's by Brian (Flickr) CC BY-SA 2.0

Enclosed by tall horse chestnut trees, St Hilary’s is an unusual late Victorian church designed by James Fowler of Louth in 1873. 

Look for the high tower with saddleback roof, the stained glass windows (particularly the Nativity scenes in the West window) and the Victorian woodwork in the chancel. 

The beautiful restored Thomas Nicholson organ is a point of interest.

Postcode: LN8 2DE

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

Photo: Spridlington St Hilary's by Brian (Flickr) CC BY-SA 2.0 

Click here to find on Google Maps 

Pipes of the restored Thomas Nicholson Organ

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X

Snitterby • St Nicholas

David Wright, Snitterby Church, CC BY-SA 2.0

Our church is a little gem because it has several unique features. It has a stone exterior and a warm brick interior typical of James Fowler (rebuilt in 1866). 

The tower was rebuilt in 1894. Recent tower restoration work in 2022. 

Visit us and enjoy a warm welcome and light refreshments in our lovely church. Cake stall and book stall.

Postcode: DN21 4TY, 

Open: 10-11th May, Saturday 10am - 5pm • Sunday 11am - 4pm

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

click here to find on Google Maps

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X

Scotton • St Genewys

St Genewys church, Scotton by J.Hannan-Briggs CC BY-SA 2.0

Theme: ‘Church Mice’. Displays, flower arrangements, activities and a family-friendly ‘church mouse hunt’. 

Grade I listed St Genewys is a mainly 13th century church with the top of the tower in the later

Perpendicular style. 

Wall memorial to John Morley, Rector 1711-1731, a patron of John Wesley. Hatchment of Fredricks’ family; sometime Lord of the Manor, patron and Baronet of Burwood.

Postcode: DN21 3RB, 

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

Photo: St Genewys church, Scotton by J.Hannan-Briggs CC BY-SA 2.0

Click here to find on Google Maps

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X

Scampton • St John the Baptist

Scampton - Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

At Scampton we are proud to recognise our close association with the RAF including two windows dedicated to personnel from RAF Scampton and 617 Squadron.

By using our interactive screens explore the history of the people who are buried in the 107 military and war graves in our churchyard.

There will also be an exhibition of art by Ingham Art Group with the opportunity to make a purchase if you wish.

Postcode: LN1 2SE

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

Photos: Copyright Ashley Taylor at Push Creativity

Click here to find on Google Maps

Scampton - Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X

*Photos: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity

Saxilby • St Botolph

Saxilby, St Botolph by Brian on Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0

Predominantly 14th/15th century, the building has fine examples of other architectural styles over a period of 900 years, including a late 10th/early 11th century grave cover fragment and a small Norman doorway. 

Other things to discover include 14th century tomb chest supporting alabaster knight & lady figures, a fine Victorian William Hill organ, imposing 1935 Ninian Comper stained glass window and the pre-reformation ‘Saxilby (music) fragment’.

 

Visit the church's own website here http://www.saxilbyparishchurch.co.uk/

Postcode: LN1 2PE, 

Open: 10-11h May, Saturday 10am - 5pm • Sunday 12noon - 5pm

Photo: Saxilby • St Botolph by Brian on Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0

Click here to find on Google Maps

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X

Saxby • St Helen

Saxby • St Helen
(photo by David Hitchborne, Creative Commons Link)

Click here to find and like Friends of St Helen's Facebook Page.

The church and family mausoleum is believed to have been designed by Lancelot “Capability” Brown – built c1775 whilst working for Richard 4th Earl Scarborough. Brown designed several churches (including Compton Verney in Warwickshire and Combe D’Abitot in Worcestershire), whilst carrying out his landscape commissions on estates around the country. The church is a wonderful example of the classical style he used.
 

More on the Capability Brown connection here
http://brightwatergardens.co.uk/the-capability-brown-connection/

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

Open 13-14th May, Saturday 11am - 4pm • Sunday 11am - 4pm

Click these links to find us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Visit us on ExploreChurches:

https://www.explorechurches.org/church/st-helen-saxby

Click here to LIKE us on Facebook or click here to FOLLOW us on Twitter and help spread the word about the festival.

.

Pilham • All Saints

Pilham - Copyright Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity

Believed to be one of the smallest churches in England to include a vestry and apse. 

Comments from visitors often use the words ‘quaint’, ‘peaceful’, ‘charming’, stunning’, ‘small but perfect’. 

We keep displays compact to let the building speak for itself but there will be flowers and some church records available for visitors to look through.

Postcode: DN21 3NU

Open: 10-11th May, Saturday 10am - 5pm • Sunday 10am - 4pm

Photo: Copyright Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity

Click here to find on Google Maps

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X

*Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity

Owmby by Spital • St Peter & St Paul

David Wright, Owmby Church, CC BY-SA 2.0

A beautiful Norman church, entrance at the base of the partly medieval tower with belfry windows. This has three bells dating from 1687, one of which is in use. 

12th century arcade separates nave from aisle, its pointed arches rest on large based pillars, some with ancient graffiti. 

Entrance archway and font are Saxon. The capitals are decorated with bold leaf carvings. Chancel and stained glass window behind the altar are later editions. 

Themed exhibitions ‘History of the villages and the churches' with items on loan from Lincoln Archives.

Postcode: LN8 2HN, 

Open: 10-11th May, Saturday 10am - 5pm • Sunday 10am - 4.30pm.

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

Click here to find on Google Maps

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X

Click these links to find us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

Northorpe • St John the Baptist

Richard Croft, St.John the Baptist's church, Northorpe, CC BY-SA 2.0

Standing on a mound in the centre of the village our church is an unknown gem. 

The capitals of the sturdy pillars are decorated with scallops, all different. There are intriguing masons marks on one of them, a 1498 incised slab, a 1595 brass and a medieval altar stone.

Postcode: DN21 4AA, 

Open: 10-11th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 12noon - 4pm.

Photo: Richard Croft, St.John the Baptist's church, Northorpe, CC BY-SA 2.0

Click here to find on Google Maps

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X

Morton • St Paul

Morton St Paul and its labyrinth

St Paul’s welcomes visitors to view its collection of ten windows designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, who worked on them with William Morris. 

The carpet in front of the altar is also of a William Morris design. 

Font of Frosterley Marble surmounted by a fine canopy. 

The Augustus Gern organ was built in 1891 and the organ case is a wonderful piece of craftsmanship. 

A warm welcome and delicious refreshments.

Postcode: DN21 3AD

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

Exterior photo supplied by the church, interiors by Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity. 

Click here to find on Google maps.

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X

*Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity

Knaith • St Mary

St Mary's Knaith, photograph by Eddy Overson

Described as “odd, but delightful with stunning views of the River Trent”, St Mary’s curious appearance reflects an intriguing and calamitous history. 

A free guided tour is available with tales of naughty nuns, civil war intrigue and fabulous fortunes won, lost and given away.

The church dates from c1330 and has interesting features including a superb Gothic font, a fine Jacobean pulpit complete with tester, medieval pew ends, and an unusual altar Baldacchino among many other amazing artefacts. 

A festival visitor commented on Facebook: "Our first stop this morning was St Mary's at Knaith. A small church tucked away but an absolute must to visit. Absolutely fascinating and the gentleman there gave us a little tour, pointing out so many things we would have missed on our own. My friends have been visiting churches as part of the festival for several years and said that is was one of the most interesting they had been to, especially given the gentleman's tour and stories"

Postcode: DN21 5PE

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

Photo: St Mary's Knaith, photograph by Eddy Overson

Click here to find on Google Maps

Visit this church's website

https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/14769/ 

St Mary’s English Decorated period Gothic font has been described thus:
“This very splendid font is we think altogether the handsomest we ever saw…”

Get Involved and Spread the Word!

Click here to

FOLLOW us on Instagram

LIKE us on Facebook

The festival is no longer active on Twitter/X