Grayingham • St Radegund

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

Come and see our new extension on the south side of the church. New disabled toilet, servery and meeting room. See our displays of plans and photographs of the stages in the building. See our old records, stained glass and many artefacts to members of a Victorian rector’s family of Grayingham. Play the Benjamin Flight organ. Food all day, baps filled with local produce, home made cakes and much more.

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

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

Open: 18-19th May, Saturday 9.30am - 4.30pm • Sunday 10am - 4pm

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Glentham • St Peter & Our Lady

Glentham • St Peter & Our Lady
(photo David Wright, Creative Commons Link)

The front porch of our church is adorned with the Tournay Arms and a rare medieval ‘pieta’, a representation of the Virgin with the dead Christ across her knees. We have stained glass by Whale and box pews.

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

Open: 18-19th May, Saturday 10am-4pm • Sunday 10am-4pm.

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Gainsborough • All Saints

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A very different Georgian-style church with medieval tower and magnificent interior, with a copy of Da Vinci’s The Last Supper behind the altar. The organ is a three-manual Walker (1906). See also the beautiful stained glass, late 17th century marble font and memorial headstone of Richard Rollett, master sailmaker to Captain James Cook on HMS The Resolution, who died two hundred years ago in 1824. Guided visits into the Bell Tower.

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity*

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

Open: 18-19th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 12noon - 4pm

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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: 18-19th May, Saturday 11am-4pm • Sunday 11am-4pm.

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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Fillingham • St Andrew

Fillingham • St Andrew
(photo David Hitchborne, Creative Commons Link)

St Andrew’s Church Fillingham is a grade II listed Anglican church. The church is first mentioned in the Doomsday book in 1086 but the current church dates back to around the 13th century. Over the weekend we will feature a display called ‘Fillingham Church Journeys’ including an exhibition of wedding dresses, christening gowns and photographs of our residents on their wedding days. Our floral arrangements will reflect our theme. We will serve light refreshments.

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

Open:  18-19th May, Saturday 10am-3pm, Sunday 10am-3pm

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Corringham • St Laurence

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

There has been a church on this site well over 1,000 years older than the British monarchy. It is 140 years since Bodley & Garner spread gold dust and beautified this Grade I church paid for by Mary Beckett. The parish registers will be made available. Come and see the stone coffin found under the altar in 1883/84. We shall have a churchyard tour weather permitting. The refreshments and lunches are Michelin star quality! A warm welcome awaits you.

 

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: 18-19th May, Saturday 10.30am - 4pm • Sunday 10.30am - 4pm

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Cherry Willingham • St Peter & St Paul

Cherry Willingham - St Peter & St Paul*

St Peter & St Paul is a wonderful example of Georgian architecture with a beautiful reredos behind the altar. The modern octagonal lantern was designed by Louis Osman who also designed the coronet for the Prince of Wales. Home made cakes, delicious scones await you...

View from the churchyard  - St Peter & St Paul*

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

Open:  18-19th May, Saturday 10am-4pm • Sunday 12noon-4pm

* Photographs by Ashley Taylor of Push Creativity for the festival

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Burton • St Vincent

Burton • St Vincent
(photo Richard Croft, Creative Commons link)

The church is dedicated to St Vincent of Saragosa, a Spanish saint and martyr who died in 304AD. The church was rebuilt in 1795 and contains a gallery for the Monson family complete with a fireplace to keep the then Lord Monson warm as he suffered from gout. The gallery contains three sets of Coronation Chairs which are loaned from the Monson family.

Postcode: LN1 2RD, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 18-19th May, Saturday 10am-5pm • Sunday 10am-5pm

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Brattleby • St Cuthbert

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Brattleby St Cuthbert is 100 years old, set in peaceful wooded grounds. There is a new Walk Round Guide highlighting the church’s most interesting features - a Saxon cross and doorway and an ornate Victorian chancel. Self-service refreshments. Peace, beauty and historic atmosphere.

A church has stood on this site for 1000 years.  The current church has been the subject of four documented restorations, 1450, 1778, 1858 and finally in 2013 at a cost of £130,000 funded by English Heritage.

Visit the church's own website here: Brattleby Church Website

Postcode: LN1 2SQ, click here to find on Google Maps

Open: 18-19th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 10am - 4pm

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Blyton • St Martin

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Blyton church has an impressive display of the flags of the allies in WWI. They hang above arcades 6 and 7 centuries old. The chancel, although much rebuilt last century, has its original East window of about 1300, its old piscina and aumbry and a 15th century window and part of the old rood beam is still over the arch. The font, with carved panels and embattled top, is a handsome example of 15th century craftsmanship.

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

Open: 18-19th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 10am - 4pm

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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. Our theme is ‘Wildlife’.

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

Open: 18-19th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 10am - 4pm

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Normanby By Spital - St Peter

Normanby By Spital - St Peter
(photo David Wright - Creative Commons Link)

St Peter’s stands in a pretty churchyard surrounded by the village houses. Close to Ermine Street, a vital artery in Roman Britain, this small medieval village church has an attractive twelfth century arcade with wonderful carvings and a sturdy and handsome tower. Foundations of a former apse are visible and further research may show that the church is of earlier date than the twelfth century. Eighteenth century additions include interesting Benefaction Boards.

 

Open: 18-19th May, Saturday 10am - 5pm • Sunday 10am - 5pm

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

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