Almshouses founded by Richard Hickson in 1640.

Rebuilt 1839 in "Belton estate style". 

DB 21 March 2018

Grade II listed as Barkston House Hotel but now, as originally, a private house.

C17 with C18 & C19 alterations and additions. Porch in the Chinese taste with C19 decorative iron supports. 

DB 19 March 2018

Old Rectory viewed from the churchyard.

White's Directory 1872 reports "The rectory, valued in K.B. at £13. 7s. 6d., has now 18 acres of glebe, and a yearly rent of £610, awarded in lieu of tithes, in 1837"

DB 10 September 2022

Described in Arthur Mee's Lincolnshire as "a fine 15th-century spire rising above a 700-year-old tower on the edge of Syston Park".

DB 21 March 2018

Kelly's Directory 1930 reads :-  

"The church of St. Nicholas is an edifice of stone in the 12th century Norman and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and embattled western tower, with pinnacles and graceful crocketed spire, containing a clock and 6 bells, three being rehung and three new bells added in 1892:

the south aisle is separated from the nave by an arcade of three arches: the 15th century chapel retains a piscine and has a richly-worked parapet with pinnacles: the aisle was rebuilt in the 14th century:

the south porch is Perpendicular, and above the arch is a rude invocatory inscription in Latin, on behalf of Thomas Pacy, a member of a family by whom the manor was held, temp. Henry VI.;

built in the north doorway, now closed, are two sepulchral slabs of a priest and a civilian, with figures of censing angels on each side of the latter:

the stained east window is a memorial to Willingham Franklin esq. d. 1885:

the east window of the chapel is a memorial to the Rev. E. Wills, a former curate:

during the restoration of the chancel, in 1887, the ancient sedilia and piscine were discovered, and on the north side a tomb, probably that of the founder of the church, was uncovered:

the handsome carved oak triptych represents " The Crucifixion." with the figures of St. Nicholas on the left and St. George on the right:

the carved oak chancel screen was erected by the late rector in 1899, to the memory of his father, and is in the style of the early 15th century:

the nave was restored by the parishioners in 1865, at a cost of £800, and the chancel in 1887, by the late rector, at a cost of £900:

there are 200 sittings"

DB 10 September 2022

White's Directory 1872 has :-

"The Church (St. Nicholas) is an elegant Gothic fabric, with a tower surmounted by a crocketed spire.

It has a south aisle, divided from the nave by Anglo-Norman arches, with small indented mouldings.

The sedilia 'and a finely mullioned hagioscope remain, and the south chapel contains a stained glass window, in memory of the Rev. E. Wills, the late curate.

The church, with the exception of the chancel, has been thoroughly restored, at a cost of £800.

It contains a good organ, built by Messrs. Forster and Andrews of Hull, in 1872"

DB 26 September 2022

Chancel was heavily restored in 1887.

DB 10 September 2022

A closer view of the sanctuary.

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looking west back towards the C19 screen and nave beyond.

DB 10 September 2022

"The chancel screen is good C19 work"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317449?section=official-list-entry 

C14 ogee headed doorway into the rood loft visible behind the pulpit.

DB 10 September 2022

Kelly's Directory 1930 reports "the stained east window is a memorial to Willingham Franklin esq. d. 1885"

DB 10 September 2022

Inscription difficult to understand but it seems to mention John Ekins of Ringstead, Northamptonshire with a date of 1671.

DB 10 September 2022

Memorial to "MR ROGER STEEVENS" a former rector d. 1712 and other members of his family.

DB 10 September 2022

"Piscina and sedilia all C19, but might reflect the original arrangement"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317449?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2022

View of the altar and reredos.

DB 10 September 2022

"C13 tomb recess in the north wall within the sanctuary"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317449?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2022

In memory of Katharine Elizabeth Clements d.1920 wife of the Rector.

DB 10 September 2022

This window appears to contain fragments of older stained glass.

DB 10 September 2022

In memory of Edward Mansfield Clements, Rector 1886 - 1922.

DB 10 September 2022

Looking west towards the C13 tower arch.

"Above the tower arch is a door with a flat lintel over beneath the C15 roof scar"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317449?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2022

Looking east towards the tall C15 chancel arch. 

"A Transitional C13 3 bay south arcade with round pillars on circular bases with annular capitals and pointed arches of two chamfered orders with hobnail decorated hood moulds"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317449?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2022

Looking north from the south aisle across the nave.

DB 10 September 2022

"TO THE MEMORY OF HENRY MASON WHINCUP ELDEST SON OF JOHN AND ELEANOR WHINCUP OF THIS PARISH WHO HAVING VOLUNTEERED FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR IN THE LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT FELL A VICTIM TO FEVER AND DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY AT PRETORIA JANUARY 25 1901 AGED 26 YEARS

IN THIS CHURCH WHERE HE WORSHIPPED AND SERVED FOR MANY YEARS AS A MEMBER OF THE CHOIR THIS MEMORIAL IS PLACED BY THE PEOPLE OF BARKSTON AND OTHERS WHO HONOURED HIS GALLANTRY AND MOURN HIS LOSS.

MAY HE REST IN PEACE"

DB 10 September 2022

"In memory of MR. REUBEN CLEVELAND (GENT) who died 27th August 1850; Aged 81 Years and ELIZABETH his widow who died 31st December 1852; Aged 86 Years.

This Tablet is erected by their only child HENRY CLEVELAND A M, for 21 years Rector of this Parish, & afterwards Romaldkirk Yorkshire"

DB 10 September 2022

"Two fragments of C14 recumbent effigies are built into the blocking of the north door of the nave; one a priest in vestments, the other a laymen, each beneath trefoil heads, the latter having censing angels in the spandrels"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317449?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2022

Blocked north doorway.

DB 10 September 2022

C19 pulpit.

DB 10 September 2022

C19 roof?

DB 10 September 2022

C15 south porch.

DB 10 September 2022

"South porch has side benches. South door is C14 with a pointed head and roll moulded angles, the capitals run out to form stepped string courses"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317449?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2022

"Over the door is a rectangular plaque set in a chamfered frame with a C15 latin dedicatory inscription in Lombardic letters commemorating Thomas Pacy"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317449?section=official-list-entry 

DB 21 March 2018

Looking east towards an altar with the organ and a former chapel beyond.

DB 10 September 2022

Looking west towards the font.

DB 10 September 2022

DB 10 September 2022

Stained glass window, in memory of the Rev. E. Wills, a former curate.

DB 10 September 2022

"C15 octagonal chalice shaped font"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317449?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2022

Organ viewed from the chancel.

White's Directory 1872 states that the church "contains a good organ, built by Messrs. Forster and Andrews of Hull, in 1872".

DB 10 September 2022

Organ blower installed after 1943 in memory of John Chaplyn Burnett.

Information from the sale of John Chaplyn Burnett's medals :-

"John Chaplyn Burnett was born at Alton, Hampshire in December 1863 and educated at Epsom College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1884, he was serving as a Captain at the outbreak of the Boer War. Serving initially in the Pom-Pom section, he would later be posted as a Staff Officer at the Dynamite Factory at Middlefontein. Having seen action in the Transvaal, May-June 1900, and east of Pretoria, July-November 1900. He finished the war on the Zululand frontier. The Grantham Journal in an obituary notice gives further detail on one enagement of particular note:

'At Witport, in 1900, he was in command of the Eastern Hills, with Major Munn in command of the Western. The Boers started shelling early morning and a message had to be dispatched calling for help, which was not sent untill dusk. Captain Burnett kept off the Boers all day, although the position on the Eastern Hills was constantly assailed. With a Vickers Maxim the foe was kept at bay, and when the gun could no longer fire, the locks were removed to a place of safety. The gun and carriage bore the marks of 14 bullets at the conclusion of the action.'

Besides the award of his D.S.O., which was presented by the King at Buckingham Palace on 18 December 1902, Burnett was advanced Major, 1 October 1902 and mentioned in the despatches (London Gazette, 10 September 1901, refers).

Having retired in 1909, he was residing in Khartoum, Sudan at the outbreak of the Great War and was re-engaged, '...where he undertook the training of the Camel Corps.'

Invalided home later that year, he served in the Ministry of Munitions as Safety Service Officer based at Leeds. In this position he '...was awarded the O.B.E., was was whilst engaged on this work that on one occasion he missed death through explosion by a few seconds.' (Sole entitlement to the B.W.M. confirmed)

Retired for a second time, Burnett relocated to Barkston, Lincolnshire and became a published mathmetician - indeed 13 Volumes of his work are in the library of University College, London (MS ADD 108, refers). Appointed to the Command of the Barkston Home Guard at the outbreak of the Second World War, he died in the summer of 1943"

https://www.spink.com/lot/1900100541A 

DB 10 September 2022

"In the south wall of the chapel at the east end of the aisle is a C14 cusped trefoil headed piscina with lobed basin"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317449?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2022

C13 tomb recess.

DB 10 September 2022

An associated brass plaque reads :-

"In Loving Memory of MARY COOPER NODEN for 16 years the beloved wife of HERBERT NODEN

For 34 years a worshipper in this Church Gave Voluntary Service in the Hospital at Grantham Barracks during the Great War 1914 -1918

Laid to rest at Nottingham, March 18th 1933"

DB 10 September 2022

"C13 ironstone tower of three stages divided by chamfered string courses, moulded plinth base, three stepped buttresses against west wall ...

Top of tower is castellated and supported on corbels, C14 projecting gargoyles at the angles with pinnacles above. Recessed C14 octagonal crocketed spire" 

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317449?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2022

"Window in lowest storey on west side has C12 details but is probably a reconstruction of the C18 with nook shafts, round head with label stops and a wavy line in the outer arch"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317449?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2022

Grade II listed C17 public house but with many later additions and alterations.

DB 19 March 2018 

Located on the grassed area opposite The Stag.

DB 19 March 2018 

War Memorial stands next to Saint Nicholas churchyard. 

DB 19 March 2018

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Grantham Circuit" Revised August 1998 Colin Shepherdson and Allen Griffin state :-

"The Society was formed in 1812 and the West Street chapel opened on the 6.10.1832. It is still in use with a membership of 9" 

Unfortunately chapel closed in 2002, although the congregation continued to meet in the Village Hall until 2013.

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Barkston-Chapel--Wesleyan-Methodist-/608459.record?pt=S 

Geoff Swain Collection 9 May 1994