Built by W Bassett Smith in 1891, All Saints’ replaced the ‘old church’ SW of the village.

It comprises nave and chancel plus a small bell-cote at the west end of the nave.

September 2015

The church is built largely of bright red brick laid in English Bond.

There are lancet windows to the buttressed nave and chancel, with ashlar surrounds and white brick hoods - all joined by a horizontal white brick band.

September 2015

The small bellcote at the west end of the church is topped by a tiny spirelet.

September 2015

The weatherboarded bell turret at the west end is probably of a later date than the mid-eighteenth century brick church.

September 2011 

The old church stands alone, south of the present village.

It is a modest brick building, built in 1748, comprising a box-like nave and chancel, with large classical windows and a western bell-turret.

Traces of the medieval church survive.   It is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

View of the church from the north-west on the approach lane from the village.

July 2016

There is evidence in the east wall of the nave that there was once a small chancel or apse.

July 2016

A wintertime view of the church from the west

Frank Skelton, 1970s

The simple square bell-turret or bellcote is weatherboarded, presumably a twentieth-century finish.

July 2016

The building materials of the Old Church are greenstone (base from the earlier medieval church), a limestone band, and purple-red brick laid in English Bond (1748 construction).

September 2011

The beam or lintel over the west door is inscribed: "BB x IG x CW x 1708".

It is thought that these were the initials of the churchwardens. Presumably the beam was salvaged from the earlier church.

September 2011

This interior view towards the east end shows the seventeenth century communion rail from Foscott church, Buckinghamshire.

Mortice holes in the beams indicate that there was once a lower flat ceiling.

September 2011

Towards the west end of the nave is this decorated timber truss.

Presumably this is a re-used element from the medieval church.

September 2011

The west doorway to the Old Church has a moulded surround and a keyed-in oval window over.  This dates from 1748.

The plaque above the door reads: "Built in The / Year 1748 / Restored A.D. 1908"

September 2011

A view of the 1868 chapel which closed 2010. 

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Spilsby Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Keith Guyler (Revised August 1998) states that :-

"The first chapel was erected in 1833 and was replaced on the same site by the present chapel in 1868. Toilets and a kitchen were installed in 1996. Sited in Main Road the chapel is still in use with a membership of 14"

Geoff Swain Collection 24 June 2002

This simple brick chapel was erected in 1701.  Originally thatched, the roof was tiled in 1847.

Regular worship ceased in the 1970s but occasional services are held.

It is owned by the National Trust.

(Monksthorpe is in the parish of Great Steeping.) 

Frank Robinson, 2010