Listed in White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 :-

"Smithson Chas. vict. Black Horse"

and in Kelly's Directory 1919 :-

"Leaning Charles, Black Horse inn"

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White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"Blyton school was built in 1826, at the cost of £100, on land purchased of Col. Henry Coape, pursuant to the will of John Milns, who left £500 for the establishment and maintenance of a school, for the education of poor children of this parish.

The master has £20 a year, as the interest of the remaining £400, for which he instructs 20 free scholars"

Kelly's Directory 1919 states :- 

"There is a fund for educational purposes left by John Milns, in 1819, with money producing about £18 yearly, managed by trustees.

Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1881 & enlarged in 1895 by Sir H. B. Bacon bart. for 150 scholars ; Colin Stevenson, master"

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Hewitt's Mill at Blyton was built in 1825 and continued under wind power until 1910. It was a four-sailed mill with five floors.

Jon Sass Collection, postcard dated 1910

The Winn family business continued at Hewitt's Mill until the 1960s.

It is listed Grade II.

Location of mill: SK 852 948

"Tower mill, now house. Early C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359455 

The C20 glazed lantern at the top (mentioned in the listing and shown in an earlier image) has been removed.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1909 states "Kirkland Sarah Jane (Mrs ), miller, Blyton windmill" and in 1919 Hewitt Joseph, miller (oil)".

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Parish Council Office is built on the site of a former National School. 

An Inscription Stone has been reset at the side of the building.

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"Here is also a Girls' School, built by subscription in 1842, at the cost of £200"

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The Parish Council Office is built on the site of a former National School. 

An Inscription stone has been reset at the side of the building.

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In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Gainsborough Circuit" Revised August 1998 Sheperson & English state :- 

"A chapel was erected in 1822 and enlarged in 1840 and again in 1867, It was sold in 1891, following the opening of a new one, and is now in use as by the Victorian Club in Laughton Road"

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"PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL 1865"

Date does not tie in with those mentioned by Sheperson & English "erected in 1822 and enlarged in 1840 and again in 1867"

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Dated 1891 above the door. 

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Gainsborough Circuit" Revised August 1998 Sheperson & English state :-  

"The stone laying for the second chapel, in the High Street, took place on the 27.5.1891 and the building opened in November of the same year, An organ was installed in 1906 and the interior restyled in 1971. It is still in use with a membership of 19"

Unfortunately the chapel closed in 2003.

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St Martin in Blyton has Perpendicular tower has a plain Norman arch.

The chancel is Early English, as evident in the chancel arch and the east window.

It was heavily restored in 1866.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire states :-

"St. Martin's church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English style, with additions in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles and an embattled western tower with four pinnacles, containing 5 bells:

the chancel, rebuilt in 1877 by Richard, 9th Earl of Scarborough, has on the north and south sides of it an ancient piscina and aumbry, and above the arch is the ancient rood beam, the great rood having letely been restored; the church retains an original east window of Early Decorated character, also a two-light 15th century window:

the font is Perpendicular, with richly carved panels and an embattled cornice:

there is a brass plate commemorating two children of Sir John Wray, 1613 and 1615:

the nave, aisles and roof were restored in 1880-81:

the tower was repaired in 1891-2 and 2 bells added to the original peal of 3 by Sir H. B. Bacon bart. :

there are 300 sittings.

The register dates from the year 1571.

The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £286, including 276 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Sir Hickman Beckett Bacon bart. and held since 1914 by the Rev. Edward Samuel Letts"

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White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"The Earl of Scarborough owns the greater part of the manor of Blyton ...

The Earl is also impropriator and patron of the Church (St. Martin,) which is a handsome modern structure, and is a vicarage valued in K.B. at £12, and now at £399, in the incumbency of the Rev. Robert Roberts, who has held this living since 1824 and that of Haverhill, in Suffolk, since 1815. He resides at the latter place.

At the enclosure, upwards of 400 acres were allotted in lieu of the rectorial tithes; and 274 acres in lieu of the vicarial tithes.

The Vicarage House has recently been rebuilt"

DB 20 May 2018

"Parish Church. C11, C13, C14, C15, C16, c.1860, coursed limestone rubble, rock faced ashlar, slate and lead roofs"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064159 

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Chancel largely rebuilt in 1877, though some original features were retained.

"East window originally late C13 with geometric tracery, the lower parts of which survive; the rest is a C19 restoration ...

Floor level has been substantially raised in the C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064159 

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"On the south wall of the chancel, a brass plate to the children of Sir John Wray of Wharton, d.1613 and 1615, in a square moulded stone surround"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064159 

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The churchyard wall seems to incorporate some of the church's former pinnacles.

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"C15 chalice shaped font which has a fluted octagonal bowl and base.

The upper part of the bowl is decorated with battlements above square panels containing cusped triskeles, crosses slatire and blank arcades"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064159 

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Looking east towards the early C13 chancel arch.

Early C13 north and south arcades of 3 bays.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064159 

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Local signage states :-

"BLYTON, A strange spectacle awaits the traveller who enters its church, a spectacle to which kings and presidents have contributed', an impressive display of the flags of the Allies in the First World War.

It began with a mother whose son died in France; she wanted a French flag for the church.

Then the mother of a son who fell in Belgium wished for a Belgium flag.

So it was that the vicar of those sad years set himself the task of collecting the flags of the Allies for his church.

King Albert sent the Belgium flag, and the French president sent the Tricolor.

Admiral Beatty sent an ensign flown at Jutland, and the Viceroy of India, and the Governors of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa sent Empire flags.

The Kings of Italy, Serbia and Rumania responded, and so did the Emperor of Japan, whose country was a friend of Britain then.

The American flag came from President Wilson, and the Portuguese flag came with special affection from the, President of the republic, for it was from Blyton that Sister , Margaret went out to matron the Portuguese hospital in France, when she was decorated with one of Portugal's ancient orders"

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The organ has a plate reading "TL Jubb & Son, Knaith Park, Gainsborough"

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C19 pulpit.

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Looking east towards the organ case which occupies the easternmost bay.

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Roll of Honour from the First World War.

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Altar at the east end of the south aisle.

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War memorial 1921 made from white Sicilian marble.

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Blyton-War-Memorial/1635600.record?pt=S

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Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states that "The Wesleyan chapel was erected in 1822"

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Gainsborough Circuit" Revised August 1998 Sheperson & English state :- 

"The High Street chapel was erected in 1827 and the last service held on the 27.1.1957 when the congregation joined with the ex-Prims in their chapel.

The chapel continued in use as an annex but was put up for sale in 1962 and finally sold in 1969.

It is now a private house, "The Old Chapel""

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"WESLEYAN CHAPEL 1822" 

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Listed in White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 :-

"Champion Jane, vict., White Hart"

and in Kelly's Directory 1919 :-

"Andrews Frederick, White Hart P.H" 

Recently on sale with offers requested in the region of £195,000.

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