Farmhouse neighbouring the church to the east.

Listed in Kelly's Directory 1896 "Elsey William Edward, farmer & trainer, Baumber house" ...

This parish is noted for the number of race horses bred by Mr. W. T. Sharpe and Mr. W. E. Elsey; Galopin, winner of the Derby in 1875, was bred here"

DB 28 September 2018

Brick kiln at Baumber (TF 195 752), in the south-west corner of the parish.

This kiln type, similar to the scotch kiln but with vaulted brick roof and vents is found occasionally in Lincolnshire (eg, see Farlesthorpe) but seldom elsewhere.

The Baumber kiln was worked from c1870-95, principally by the Hutchinson & Jordan families. It was restored in 1986 for the owner, Mrs Fawcett, by Martin Hammond. 

Ken Redmore, 2006

This solid gold bangle was discovered at Baumber, near Horncastle in 1997.

It is the largest example of its type from Lincolnshire. It was made in the later Bronze Age, between c.900 and c.700BC, and may not actually ever have been completed.

Some hammer marks are still visible, which would undoubtedly have been polished out on a finished item.

The bangle has simple terminals and no other decoration.

Listed in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 :-

"Addlesee William Hy. Red Lion P.H"

and in White's Directory of 1856 :-

"Baggaley Ann, vict. Red Lion"

About to be demolished with the plot being cleared for housing? 

DB 18 July 2019

White's Directory 1872 lists "Walker Mrs Nancy, parochial schoolmistress" as a resident.

Kelly's Directory 1913 has "Public Elementary School, erected in 1876 & enlarged in 1893, for 92 children; average attendance, 78; Harry Thompson, master"

Now the Pilgrim School a Community Special School (Hospital School) providing education to pupils with physical or mental illness.

DB 17 December 2022

St Swithin's is a Georgian red brick building in "Gothick" style, with an interior that incorporates Norman and Early English features from the earlier church.

It was built in 1761 by Henry Clinton (9th Earl of Lincoln and later 2nd Duke of Newcastle) to house the family mausoleum.

October 2011

A view of St Swithin from the south-west.

The blank quatrefoils - at both west and east ends of the aisles - are typical of the early Georgian Gothic Revival.

October 2011

This view of St Swithin's from the north-east shows the intersecting tracery of the pointed windows of nave and chancel.

The tracery was renewed and cusped by William Scorer of Lincoln in 1892.

May 2013

Kelly's Directory 1919 reports that the tower contains 4 bells but at least three of them are now resting in the north aisle.

DB 26 May 2019

One of the two octagonal piers in the north arcade. The arches are double-chamfered.

September 2018

Three Georgian ogee arches with feathered crockets divide the nave from the chancel.

September 2018

The chancel is divided from the nave by these slender posts and splendid ogee arches.

In Pevsner's words: Their crockets have an unmistakably Georgian featheriness.

May 2013

A plain, squat octagonal font, probably dating from the Medieval church rather than the Georgian reconstruction.

September 2018

This slab carries a dedication to John Eland and his two wives, dated 1463.

He lived in Raithby and was married again after his first wife died.

May 2013

This hatchment was for Henry, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, died 22 Feb 1794.

September 2018

The interior of St Swithin showing the retained medieval N and S arcades and the colourful Gothick screen between nave and chancel, a most unusual feature.

May 2013

The view towards the east end of the church shows the splendid Gothick screen and the medieval three-bay arcades.

September 2018

Looking back towards the entrance.

DB 26 May 2019

The attractive single-manual pipe organ was built by Clarke and Sons of Kirton Lindsey and dedicated to the memory of Mabel Ellen Brown, 1893-1971. A plaque attached to the organ case describes her as 'a devoted worker for this church'.

September 2018

The brick porch dates from 1758, i.e. contemporary with the construction of the church.

October 2011

The pulpit, in painted panelled timber, dates from the Georgian refurbishment of the church.

September 2018

"Above the chancel screen is a wall painting including the Royal Coat of Arms and some texts"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063173 

DB 26 May 2019

A richly decorated tester of painted wood in Gothick style was fixed above the pulpit in the Georgian church.

It is now attached to the wall above boards inscribed with the Ten Commandments at the west end of the north aisle.

May 2013

The war memorial, mounted on the nave wall, records WW1 casualties:

John Bromfield, Willima Fawcett, William Jordan, William Laming, Gilbert Major Spencer.

September 2018

The west doorway of the church is late Norman with one order of colonettes and an arch with zig-zag.

October 2011

The doorway through the porch at the west end of the church dates from the late Norman period. Zigzag decoraton embellishes the arch.

To the right is a waterleaf carving.

September 2018

Home to the Livesey family of Great Sturton, the Italianate style part of the hall was built between 1873 & 1875 and added to an earlier building of 1810.

The house and estate were sold in 1953 and the house was later demolished.

Postcard sent 1905

Walled garden rescued from dereliction and opened to the public in 2016 "an innovative and exciting garden, full of hidden surprises and vastly different from the traditional kitchen garden that it once was" 

"A nineteenth-century walled garden, that once belonged to the former Stourton Hall.

It is a rare example of a double walled garden, and covers just under four acres ... walls were built between 1817 and 1826"

http://www.walledgardenbaumber.co.uk/history/4592987220 

DB 28 September 2018 

"Fragmentary ruin of country house. C16 with C18 alterations"

"The house was deserted by 1810 when the Livesey family bought the Estate and built the new Hall in Stourton Park"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359926 

This small water tower on the northern edge of the village close to the church (TF 222746) is now redundant.

The capacity of the cast-iron tank was about 6600 gallons (30 cu.m.).

October 2011

White Cottage was built in the seventeenth century in mud and stud construction, the common vernacular building method in the east of Lincolnshire

Pearl Wheatley, 2013