View this Grade II Iisted building by John Dobson of Newcastle with its unusual blue starred ceiling in the apse. The church was modelled on the Norman church of All Saints, Steetley in Derbyshire.
The 2024 West Lindsey Churches Festival takes place 11-12 & 18-19 May, with 88 historic churches welcoming visitors.
Wragby - Methodist
The church organ was originally paid for as a war memorial for the village. Those who went to war and returned are named on one poster and those who sadly died are named on the organ itself. An exhibition of scarecrows depicting historical figures in conjunction with a scarecrow trail organised by the Heritage Group around Wragby.
Postcode: LN8 5RA, click here to find on Google Maps
Visit our chapel on ExploreChurches here:
https://www.explorechurches.org/church/wragby-methodist-church-wragby
Open: 11-12th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 12noon - 4pm
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Rothwell - St Mary Magdalene
Rothwell - St Mary Magdalene - Photo Richard Croft (Creative Commons License) |
Major parts of the church date from the Norman period and the Anglican parish register dates from 1562. There are nine rich Norman arches in the nave.The tower was originally Saxon. The church was repaired and enlarged in 1849. Display of flowers.
Postcode: LN7 6BB, click here to find on Google Maps
Visit us on ExploreChurches here:
https://www.explorechurches.org/church/st-mary-magdalene-rothwell
Open 11-12th May, Saturday 10am - 4pm • Sunday 10am - 4pm
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Minting - St Andrew
Minting - St Andrew. Photo by Dave Hitchborne Creative Commons Licence |
peaceful surroundings of a beautiful village church.
Postcode: LN9 5RS, click here to find on Google Maps
visit us on ExploreChurches here:
https://www.explorechurches.org/church/st-andrew-minting
Open: 9th-10th May, Saturday 11am - 3pm • Sunday 11am - 3pm
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Brocklesby - All Saints
Brocklesby All Saints * |
Brocklesby Church is situated in the stunning grounds of the Brocklesby Estate and features a 1773 organ restored by James Wyatt.
The 1773 Organ * |
Open: 11-12th May, Saturday 11am-4pm • Sunday 11am-4pm
* Photography by Ashley Taylor of Push Creativity for the festival
* Photography by Ashley Taylor of Push Creativity for the festival
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Visit this church ExploreChurches here:
https://www.explorechurches.org/church/all-saints-brocklesby
Gainsborough United Reformed Church
The church was built in 1897 as a memorial to John Robinson, pastor of the Mayflower Pilgrims. We hold a permanent Pilgrim exhibition in our Mayflower Room. The two manual pipe organ built in 1903 by Forster and Andrews is listed by the British Institute of Organ Studies as an instrument of national heritage importance.
The Mayflower Room - Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity* |
The two manual pipe organ built in 1903 by Forster and Andrews - Photo: Ashley Taylor, Push Creativity* |
Postcode: DN21 2JR, click here to find on Google Maps
Open: 18-19th May, Saturday 10am - 3pm • Sunday 1pm - 4pm
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Medieval Graffiti Discovered in Lincolnshire During the West Lindsey Churches Festival 2015
One of the many visitors to the 2015 festival were Brian and Christine Porter, of the Lincolnshire Medieval Graffiti Project.
Brian told us: "My wife Christine and I visited 11 churches during the festival, finding graffiti in seven of them. This is part of a long-term project that has now recorded graffiti in 60 Lincolnshire churches, plus finding graffiti in another 76 that still need recording; and 500 more churches not yet examined!"
Brian has kindly shared some of the photographs and findings that he and Christine made at the festival.
Fillingham had three examples of the same Mason's mark on
the font.
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Glentham, very faintly carved 'double-V' marks which are said to represent the Virgin Mary and ward off evil |
Glentworth had very few examples, but included the small cross previously unseen by the church community! |
Northorpe Church has a Nine Men's Morris almost hidden by layers of paint, on the south wall window ledge |
Northorpe Church also has a particularly interesting group of hands carved onto one of the North Aisle pillars |
18th Century graffiti at Rand Church, the name "I Bentley Fulnetby 1768". |
Snelland church had a couple of 'double-v' marks outside,
on
the eastern end of the south wall. These symbols are alleged
to be representative of the Virgin Mary.
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Read more about the graffiti recording project here: http://www.lincolnarchaeology.org.uk/graffiti
This page links you to some of the group's work in surveying the medieval / ancient graffiti found in Lincolnshire churches. Although initially interested only in medieval graffiti (anything up to the end of the 15th century), they have also found lot of more recent graffiti. Whereas medieval graffiti tends to be symbols and images, the post-reformation graffiti is often initials or names.
The next West Lindsey Churches Festival will take place on 7-8th and 14-15th May 2016, our 21st year!
There will be over 80 churches open across the district, just north of the cathedral city of Lincoln, England.
This website will be updated with the 2016 details in March 2016, but please look at the existing pages as they will give a very good idea of what the festival is all about.
Connect with our Festival on Facebook and Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/WestLindseyChurches
https://twitter.com/ChurchesFest
There will be over 80 churches open across the district, just north of the cathedral city of Lincoln, England.
This website will be updated with the 2016 details in March 2016, but please look at the existing pages as they will give a very good idea of what the festival is all about.
Connect with our Festival on Facebook and Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/WestLindseyChurches
https://twitter.com/ChurchesFest
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