Mentioned in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 :-

"Johson Herbert, Napoleon inn, Mount bridge, Skirbeck"

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The current Rectory in Fishtoft Road for comparison with Skirbeck Hall the former Rectory.

Both are built immediately adjacent to the churchyard and have their own private entrances. 

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This former rectory is now a private house, renamed Skirbeck Hall.

"1847, by Edward Lapidge, C20 alterations and extensions ...

built for Rev Dr William Roy following the destruction by fire of the former rectory"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388860

The former Rectory gardens are now home to an exclusive gated housing estate. Also the current rectory which fronts directly onto Fishtoft Road.

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To Henry Thorold¹, the church of St Nicholas in Skirbeck had 'a flavour of Great Expectations, with its Victorian gravestones and solitary lamp, close to the Bank of the Witham'.

The building is largely Early English and Decorated, though the north aisle dates from 1875 and the chancel from 1933. The pulpit and font are seventeenth-century.

¹ Thorold, Henry, 1993. Lincolnshire Churches Revisited. Michael Russell

Mark Acton, 2011

St Nicholas Church viewed across Boston Model Boat Club's purpose built pond - edge of the pond just visible at the bottom of this image. 

"Parish church. C13, C14, C15, C17, C18, additions 1869-75 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. 1899 restoration of tower, 1933-5 chancel by LT Moore ...

The church is set by the bank of the River Witham, and is thought to predate the foundation of St Botolph's Church in Boston. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388859 

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Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of St. Nicholas, originally Norman, is an ancient building of stone now in the Early English and Decorated styles, standing on the bank of the river, about a mile from the town of Boston, and consists of clerestoried nave of six bays, aisles and a Perpendicular western tower of three stages, with embattled parapet and pinnacles and containing 6 bells :

the two eastern bays now form a quasi-chancel:

the rood-loft doorway remains, and the font, bearing the names of William Clarke and Richard Jenkyn, churchwardens, is dated 1662:

the church, with the exception of the tower, was thoroughly restored in 1874 at a cost of over £3,000; the large west window and the interior of the tower were restored in 1892; the total cost amounted to £311:

the church was again restored in 1908, at a cost of £3,000, and affords 400 sittings"

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An image of Skirbeck St Nicholas from before the building of the chancel in 1933.

Undated postcard.

View from the south-east. The circular clerestory windows, dating from the thirteenth century, are attractive and unusual.

November 2018

The large west window is built in the Perpendicular style of the fifteenth century but was in fact dates from the nineteenth.

The top section of the tower is genuine Perpendicular.

November 2018

The font dates from the nineteenth century.

In the background is part of the north arcade. The piers include detached shafts and have capitals with stiff-leaf decoration.

November 2018

Merchant Navy memorial stands next to the War Memorial in Saint Nicholas churchyard.

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"The war memorial to the men of Skirbeck who fell in the First World War was unveiled on 5 December 1920.

The service was conducted by the Revd James Humprey Poole (rector), assisted by the Revd Ivor Bennet (curate), with a sermon given by the Revd J Basil Simpson, later Bishop of Kobe.

The dedication was attended by Major Edward Hammond Foot"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1432892 

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Former Wellington Inn listed in White's Directory 1872 "Sheppard William, victualler, Wellington Inn, Vauxhall road, Skirbeck" and in Kelly's Directory 1913 "Wellington, Joseph Platt, Vauxhall rd. Skirbeck, Boston". 

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Former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and school built in 1876 - No. 54 Freiston Road (Shown as Church Road on OS 25 inch map published 1905).

https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Monument/MLI91974  

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