The nave, chancel and tower of All Saints were rebuilt during the 19th century.

Much remains from medieval times, however, notably the early 13th century south arcade and the 15th century nave roof.

September 2012

View from the south-west.

September 2012

Buttresses at the south-east corner of the chancel are made from chalk and ironstone.

All Saints' church is one of a few surviving Wolds buildings in which chalk has been used.

September 2012

Memorial to Henry Langton Brackenbury of Thorpe Hall, Louth (1868-1920). MP for Louth 1910 & 1918-20. Also to his father, Major Henry Brackenbury.

Mark Acton, 2020 

Victorian features of the church include the reredos, the impressive painted chancel roof and an elaborate organ case.

September 2012

This handsome early nineteenth-century farmhouse immediately north of the church is Grade II listed:

The details on the Historic England website are as follows 

Jean Howard, 11 April 2022

Jean Howard, 11 April 2022

By the time the Institute was built Canon Smyth had retired.

The letters after his name have been cut out and amended; it appears that he had gained an additional qualification c 1895.

Jean Howard, 11 April 2022

The retaining wall alongside the path to the door is lined with loose-laid, over-burned bricks, which are also seen elsewhere in the village.

Jean Howard, 11 April 2022

This Italianate house was designed by W A Nicholson and built in 1841.

Hugh D Martineau, c.1980

Elkington Hall, in South Elkington, was a relatively plain brick building in Italianate style, relieved by a substantial tower.

It was built in 1841-42 for the Smyth family by Edward Buckton Lambe. (Smyth also rebuilt the nave of the church.)

It remained in the Smyth family until the estate was sold in the 1930s. The house was demolished in the 1960s.

More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 1', published by SLHA.  Buy a copy.

T R Leach Collection, undated postcard

A more distant view of the Hall from the south. The outbuildings included a small gas-making plant with retort house and gasholder.

T R Leach Collection, undated postcard by Hickingbottom and Bullamore of Lincoln

The location of this temporary camp of the First World War period is uncertain but was very likely in the parkland near Elkington Hall.

T R Leach Collection, undated postcard 

A meeting of a local hunt - possibly the South Wold - in the grounds of Elkington Hall.

T R Leach Collection, undated postcard 

Jean Howard, 11 April 2022

A low extension at right angles has increased the accommodation as a dwelling. A commendable effort has been made to match materials and window design to the original chapel building.

Jean Howard, 11 April 2022

The dedication stone above the porch entrance is still very clear cut. It appears there was once a light above it.

Jean Howard, 11 April 2022

Jean Howard, 11 April 2022

This substantial house for the schoolmaster appears to be contemporary with the school next door. The imposing twisted chimney looks original.

Jean Howard, 11 April 2022

Water cistern now in the parterre garden at Holme Pierrepont Hall near Nottingham. Local signage states :-

"The lead water cistern dating from 1786 was rescued from Thorpe Hall, near Louth in Lincolnshire, as part of the Brackenbury family heritage and placed here by Robin Brackenbury to grace the newly laid parterre garden, in the 1970s"

Thorpe Hall was built about 1584 for Sir John Bolle. Captain Langston Brackenbury, MP for Louth, bought the Hall in 1906.

DB 23 February 2020

Constructed of Cornish granite and built by Mawer Bros of Louth, the memorial was dedicated and unveiled on 12 December 1920.

One hundred years later, with Covid likely to disrupt a ceremony on Armistice Sunday, the members of South Elkington Women’s Institute decided to decorate the memorial and boundary chains with hand-crafted red poppies.

Jean Howard, 11 April 2022

Jean Howard, 11 April 2022