"Above the vestry door is a large C19 coat of arms of Coade stone"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062909 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coade_stone 

DB 3 November 2018

The graffito to the left is a post mill, probably unconnected to the one on the right.

October 2017

An associated brass plaque fixed to the south wall of the chancel states :-

"IN MEMORY OF THE REV. CANON GEORGE EARLE WELBY PREBENDARY OF LINCOLN AND RECTOR OF THIS PARISH FROM I849 TO 1900 AND AUGUSTA HIS WIFE.

ALSO MAJOR GENERAL THE HON. SIR SAVAGE LLOYD MOSTYN KCB ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS.

THIS REREDOS WAS ERECTED BY HIS WIFE EMILY SARAH LLOYD MOSTYN DAUGHTER OF REV, CANON G.E.WELBY 1920"

DB 12 November 2018

One of two corbel heads on the chancel arch dating from the thirteenth century.

September 2018

"C19 roofs, that in chancel with painted decoration"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359659 

DB 3 September 2018

C19 encaustic tiles in the sanctuary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encaustic_tile 

DB 9 September 2018

Sited on the west wall of the nave. Royal Arms of 1801-16. Marked at the base 'Anthony Radford Churchwarden 1801 Everith Painter'. The board also contains the Lord's Prayer, the Commandments & the Creed.

Mark Acton, 2018

This figurine is on the east wall of the chancel.

St Hugh (1135-1200) was appointed Bishop of Lincoln in 1186. He is depicted carrying a model of the Lincoln Cathedral, which he was instrumental in restoring.

August 2013

This figurine is on the east wall of the chancel.

St Hilda (614-680) founded Whitby Abbey.  It is a model of the abbey church she carries here.

August 2013

"The chancel has a C18 painted barrel-vaulted ceiling and a flower frieze"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388844?section=official-list-entry 

DB 17 March 2022

"GIVEN IN 1918 IN THANKSGIVING FOR PEACE"

DB 17 March 2022

Displayed above the north door.

DB 26 March 2022

Reredos originally located in Grimsby Minster now displayed on the east wall of the north aisle.

"designed by George Pace and fabricated by Frank Roper in 1972"

http://www.lawandreligionuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Re-All-Saints-Branston-2018-ECC-Lin-2.pdf 

The large figure on the right is that of Saint James holding a scallop shell.

Background represents a fishing net studded with scenes from the life of Christ.

Virgin and Child to the left.

DB 1 December 2018

"Chancel has wood and plaster lierne vault, also elaborately painted"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147497

DB 2 July 2018

"Carefully restored early C16 angel nave roof, elaborately painted"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147497

DB 2 July 2018

The following notes are provided in the church:

'This extraordinary and most probably unique picture is painted on six horizontal wooden planks, curving on the left-hand side to fit the chancel arch where it hung as part of a tympanum until some time between 1830 and 1879. it is 5ft 1in high and 6ft 10in wide tapering to 5ft 11in at the top.

At the bottom is an inscription:
Robert Stephenson: Spaines proud armado with great strength and power / Great Britain's stae came gapeing to devour. / This dragon's guts like Pharoas scattered hoast / Lay splitt and drown's upon the Irish Coast. / For of eight score save too ships sent from Spaine / But twenty five scarce sound return'd again.

The dragon is scarlet and fills the centre of the picture in a huge ovel sweep, encircling a small fleet and with more ships in every twist of its body and tail. Projecting from the edge of the picture into the sea around it are promontories of land labelled for lack of  sophisticated cartographical layout.

In the top left corner is Hibernia, with lower down a ship of war flying St Patrick's cross. Many smaller ships also have this flag. In the bottom left corner is France. To the top right is Scotland with a huge fleet crowded around its coast and to the lower right Angliae. Here the troops are marshalled on the shore behind a drummer and a standard. The flag has the cross of St George recognisable in the corner.

The Spanish fleet is clustered around the red dragon referred to in the inscription and in the process of being wrecked on the shores of Scotland and Ireland. Fire ships are to be seen floating into the midst of them. The English soldiers with drummer wait on the shore beside a small town.

It seems possible that the picture was painted soon after the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) and was repaired in the first half of the 17th century.

There are mortices in the chancel arch showing the former positions of the rood beam. The painting presumably fitted into half of the space between this and the top of the screen filling the gap left by the removal of the rood.'

The painting currently hangs on the west wall of the nave above the tower arch.

May 2016

C19 encaustic tiles in the chancel presumably dating from the 1871–1872 restoration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encaustic_tile 

DB 9 September 2018

Above the chancel arch against the north wall of the nave this fragment of a wall painting shows a crowned head with the letter M, possibly representing the Blessed Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven.

Jean Howard, August 2020

There are displayed beneath the tower ceiling three large remarkable roof figures that must have been saved when the roof was replaced in C19th with the present one.

Jean Howard, August 2020

There are displayed beneath the tower ceiling three large remarkable roof figures that must have been saved when the roof was replaced in C19th with the present one.

Jean Howard, August 2020

There are displayed beneath the tower ceiling three large remarkable roof figures that must have been saved when the roof was replaced in C19th with the present one.

Jean Howard, August 2020

Above the chancel arch are fragments of a medieval Doom painting – a depiction of the Last Judgement.

September 2014

Sanctuary roof with radiating rafters.

DB 23 March 2022

Decorative tiles in the sanctuary floor.

DB 23 March 2022

One of several decorated stops at the springing points of the arches in the arcades in St Michael's.

April 2016

A medieval wall painting in the north aisle of the church of St John the Evangelist in Corby Glen.

Mark Acton, 2014

"In 1939 a churchwarden discovered medieval wall paintings beneath flaking later whitewash"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_the_Evangelist%27s_Church,_Corby_Glen 

DB 7 April 2019

Depiction of the devil or a demon(?) found in the north aisle.

DB 9 September 2017

Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child.

At her feet to the right is a smaller image of Joseph wearing a hat with an ox and ass.

DB 27 June 2018

Scene from the Nativity showing Herod the Great, King of Judea who ordered the massacre of the Innocents.

DB 27 June 2018

Scene from the Nativity showing one of the three kings or wise men.

DB 27 June 2018

Scene from the Nativity showing another one of the three kings or wise men.

DB 27 June 2018

Scene from the Nativity showing a shepherd travelling to Bethlehem in search of the infant Jesus.

DB 27 June 2018

Scene from the Nativity showing another shepherd travelling to Bethlehem in search of the infant Jesus.

DB 27 June 2018

Remains of a Doom painting over the chancel arch.

"A "Doom painting" or "Doom" is a traditional English term for a wall-painting of the Last Judgment in a medieval church"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_paintings 

DB 27 June 2018

Contrast stretched in the rectangular area to enhance detail.

St Christopher seen at the bottom of the enhanced area with his staff. 

North aisle wall. 

DB 27 June 2018

In 1883-84 Bodley redecorated much of the church, including the painted chancel ceiling.

May 2012

The restoration work of Bodley in 1883-84 included the screen between nave and chancel.

Only a small lower portion of the rood is thought to be original.

May 2012

The impressive reredos behind the altar was introduced by Bodley as part of the 1883-84 restoration scheme.

May 2012

Late thirteenth or early fourteenth century brass of a knight wearing chain mail. Only the head, shoulders and arms are preserved from what at one time was probably a complete figure.

This is said to be one of the four or five earliest surviving brasses in England.

May 2016

"The C19 chancel roof is painted"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064139 

DB 23 March 2020

One of several corbels along the nave carrying symbols of religious significance.

Presumably this was part of Lee's early 20th century scheme.

October 2016

An embossed plaster frieze in the chancel at St Mary's.

July 2012

Victorian tiles in the sanctury area.

August 2018

Decorative corbel used at the sanctuary end of the chancel.

DB 18 February 2020

Nineteenth-century tiles form a pattern outside the sanctuary.

DB 18 February 2020

The nave and aisles are separated by colonnades of the Corinthian order.

Image shows one of the Corinthian Capitals.

DB 28 January 2020

The chancel ceiling still carries its original decoration of 1913.

August 2015

The interior of Gedney Church has a range of interesting features.

This striking reredos was restored in the nineteenth century.

Ken Redmore, 2010

"Also in the aisles are traces of C15 painted decoration and script"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308429 

Local signage  states :-

"In the North and South Aisles there are patches of wall paintings - how much more artwork remains hidden under the 'whitewash?"

DB 8 September 2019

Chancel roof decoration. 

Pevsner states "In 1863 Sir G. G. Scott was commissioned to report on the church. He began repairs in 1866 with the renewal of roofs and interior restoration".

DB 28 December 2018

A nearby notice states :-

"The painting on the North wall of the nave, at the West end, on the filling of the blocked arcade to a destroyed North aisle was examined and treated in 1949.

It is very much damaged having been exposed for over a century.

It was seen by the Archdeacon Bonney in 1848 and he described it as "Time and Death". Until the present treatment, it was not certain that this was in fact the subject. 

It is of considerable interest, as being one of the very few instances where post-Reformation church decorators allowed themselves a figure subject.

Time on the left, is winged and scantily clad and is running over a tombstone, forelock flying, hour-glass in one hand, scythe in the other. 

The texts on the front of the tomb are : Ephesians 5 v 16 ("... redeeming the time ..."), and 1 Corinthians 7 v 31 (" ... for the fashion of the world passeth away ...). 

Death, represented by a skeleton walking away on another tombstone on the right, holds a spade in one hand, and possibly a mattock in the other. The inscription cannot be read.

The work is unusually good and may well follow a woodcut or other engraving. 

Its date is probably within the first half of the 17th century, and the subject a continuation of the theme of mortality and the passing nature of this world exemplified in the medieval morality of the "Three Living and Three Dead".

DB 6 February 2020

The rood in the chancel arch.

June 2015

Among the graffiti in the porch is this image of a simple four-sailed post mill.

September 2013

C19 decorative tiled floor.

DB 26 September 2018

Decorative boss in the south arcade.

DB 26 September 2018

"Adoration of the Magi" hanging above the west tower arch.

DB 16 July 2018

This small figure, in recess with canopy, is situated on the east wall of the chancel to the left of the altar.

September 2015

Faithful to the medieval style of the church, the early-Victorian bench ends are decorated with cast iron ‘poppy-heads’.

September 2020

The roof appears to be supported on carved corbels, but they are made of cast plaster. The theft of the lead caused all of them to be damaged by water ingress and this is the most complete of those remaining.

Jean Howard, 30 March 2021

Pevsner has "TILED FLOOR dating from James Fowler's restoration of chancel and spire in 1888".

DB 20 June 2022

Modern artwork by a local artist.

DB 20 June 2022

"The Cl9 chancel has 3 polished limestone steps to the altar, fine tiled floors and a handsome marble and mosaic reredos"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064035 

Local signage states that :-

"The mosaic on the reredos is by Italian, Antonio Salviati and is dated 1867. It was designed by Robert Jewell Withers. By 1867 Salviati had already installed Venetian mosaics into over 50 Cathedrals and Churches in England but this appears to be the only one in a Lincolnshire Church. 

Salviati mosaics can be found on every continent excluding of course Antarctica. 

Satviati is credited with the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral and the hall in the Houses of Parliament. The Salviati factory is still operating today in Murano, Italy" 

DB 12 September 2021

Painting and Commandment Boards at the west of the nave above the tower door.  

A painting of Saint Anthony of Padua holding the infant Christ. The white lily represents purity. Local signage states :-

"No one knows as to how the picture came to be in Hough church but it is believed to have come at the end of the Second World War about 1945/50. There is a sale ticket on the back"

DB 26 June 2018

Painting displayed on the south wall of the nave.

DB 15 April 2022

Detail of the decorated and gilded beam in front of the chancel at St Hugh's. This was originally in the chapel at Walmsgate probably designed by Henry Wilson in 1901.

May 2016

The fine painted chancel ceiling which dates the restoration of the 1890s by Bodley and Garner.

May 2010

There are several 19th century fittings inside St Swithin's.

Of particular note is the chancel roof that was hand painted by Pugin in 1841.

April 2013

"The C19 chancel roof was hand painted by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin in 1841"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147388

Professionally cleaned and restored in 2008. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Pugin

DB 16 September 2018

Chancel roof viewed from the nave.

"The C19 chancel roof was hand painted by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin in 1841"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147388 

Professionally cleaned and restored in 2008. 

DB 16 September 2018

The reredos and panelling in the chancel were installed in the mid-nineteenth century when much of the church's interior was refurbished.

April 2013

C19 encaustic floor tiles in the sanctuary.

DB 16 July 2019

This small carving in the Angel Choir shot to fame as a good luck charm.

A tie pin in the form of the Lincoln Imp was worn by the Prince of Wales, future Edward VII, when his horse Persimmon won the Derby in 1896.

DB 14 March 2016

Easternmost of two chantries built into the south wall of the Angel Choir.

Founded by John Russell, Bishop of Lincoln 1480-1494 and dedicated to Saint Blaise the patron saint of woolcombers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Russell_(bishop) 

Modern decorative scheme 1956-1958 by Duncan Grant who used his acquaintances in the Bloomsbury Group as models.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Grant

DB 23 August 2018

Late C13 Green Man carved in the archway to the North choir aisle.

"A Green Man is a sculpture or other representation of a face surrounded by or made from leaves. Branches or vines may sprout from the mouth, nostrils, or other parts of the face"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Man 

Lincoln Cathedral has 33 representations of the Green Man in the stonework and woodwork.

DB 13 December 2018

Annunciation of the Virgin Mary painted by Rev. Matthew William Peters R.A. in 1798.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/rev-matthew-william-peters-419 

Until 1855 it was part of the Reredos behind the High Altar.

Now hanging on the west wall of the Northeast Transept. 

DB 18 October 2018

Wall painting of 4 bishops supposed to be buried in this transept :-

Robert Bloet  1094-1123

Alexander the Magnificent 1123-1148

Robert de Chesney 1148-1167

William of Blois 1203-1206

By the Vanetian, Vincenzo Damini 1728.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Damini

He had been commissioned to restore medieval wall paintings of the 4 bishops but over painted them instead. 

DB 18 October 2018

Names of the ringers in 1714 painted on the north wall of the chapel.

Many more names on the eastern wall. 

DB 4 October 2018

May have been carved to hide some imperfection in the masonry.

Located above and to the south side of the altar.  

DB 4 July 2019

The Pulpitum Screen was once brightly painted and traces of pigment still remain.

DB 23 August 2018

Pevsner comments "Nice Bodleian ceiled wagon roof, decorated with crosses in the chancel".

DB 20 October 2018

Hoodmould in form of a strange head on the tower arch at the west end of the nave.

March 2017

"Some murals visible in fragmentary condition, especially over chancel arch"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062891 

DB 31 October 2018 

DB 12 September 2018

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"on the sill of one of the, windows in the chancel is a beautiful scroll work painting of the 13th century"

DB 8 September 2019

Stencilled decoration in a nineteenth-century frieze in the chancel.

July 2019

C19 encaustic tiles in the sanctuary.

DB 8 September 2019

Colourful Victorian floor tiles in the chancel.

March 2016

C19 encaustic tiles in the sanctuary.

DB 24 August 2019

The chancel arch is flanked by several paterae.

December 2017

"Of note is the chancel carpet designed by William Morris"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_by_Gainsborough 

DB 15 May 2022

"The chancel has a canted coved roof, also preserving its original 1890s decoration"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063516?section=official-list-entry 

DB 15 May 2022

"Timber barrel nave roof with coving, divided into panels by moulded ribs with an original 1890s scheme of delicate painted decoration of cream red and green"

DB 15 May 2022

"The SE chapel, dedicated to St Hugh, has a flat ceiling divided into panels by moulded ribs, the panels painted with swans and mitres"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063516?section=official-list-entry

DB 15 May 2022

Statue of St Hugh in a niche on the east wall.

DB 15 May 2022

Following the fire of 1969 which destroyed the chancel ceiling, it was renewed in line with Bodley and Garner's designs of the 1880s, but using brighter colours.

May 2012

Thirteenth century wall painting in the nave.

May 2012

The chancel ceiling, part of the Fowler remodelling of 1874, is decorated with golden stars (not fleurs-de-Lys as asserted by Pevsner).

April 2017

Painted red-outline drawings of saints on the north wall of the chancel.

"In the years 1873 and 1874 the whole of the interior was most elaborately coloured, under the direction of the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott R.A."

DB 7 December 2019

Christ in Glory above the chancel arch.

DB 7 December 2019

C19 encaustic tiles decorate the chancel floor.

DB 26 October 2018

"Nave has good pine board ceiling of 1780s with large blind tracery motifs"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083261 

DB 21 August 2018

This highly decorated pulpit dates from the restoration of 1862.

September 2015

Text dated 1772 appearing high on the wall at the west end of the nave

DB 2 March 2020

Medieval Paintings from around 1380 which were re-discovered after a 2nd World War Bomb exploded nearby shaking off some paint and plaster.

The decorative scheme on the north wall of the nave includes St Christopher, The Three Quick & The Three Dead, Weighing of Souls and The Ascension.

This image shows The Three Dead at the top with the weighing of souls beneath.

DB 9 September 2017

This image on the south clerestory wall shows the "Cauldron of God's Wrath".

Being stirred by another figure off image to the left. 

DB 9 September 2017

Detail of the "Doom" above chancel arch - top part of painting truncated when pitch of the roof was lowered.

Christ's feet can be seen in the center resting on the orb of the earth.

Lost souls are being forced into the mouth of Hell on the right whilst the saved are being led to Heaven on the left. 

DB 2 March 2020

Piscina "on a horizontal figure with a highly decorated crocketed ogee head with finial and human mask label stops" at east end of south aisle.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253286 

DB 2 March 2020

C19 decorative tiles.

DB 28 April 2019

Closer view of the sanctuary with its many excellent tiles. 

DB 18 November 2019

"Excellent C19 encaustic and glazed tiles in the chancel, including a range of geometric patterns on the floor, and wheat and grape motifs on the dado"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360452 

DB 18 November 2019

"Sanctuary has a fine tiled floor"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1215306 

DB 19 April 2019

The richly decorated tiled reredos above the altar.

September 2015

Remains of a pre-reformation wall painting on north wall of north aisle.

DB 6 August 2018

The two arcades end in features that appear to have been brought from the old church.

This one was perhaps produced by an apprentice mason?

Jean Howard, 2 March 2022

The two arcades end in features that appear to have been brought from the old church.

Nailhead decorates this feature.

Jean Howard, 2 March 2022

The floor tiles in the chancel.

September 2015

Behing the altar in the reredos is this Italian-style painting of the Adoration of the Magi, probably dating from the seventeenth century.

May 2016

A small piece of early interlace carving has been built into the south wall of the church.

April 2018

C19 encaustic tiles in the sanctuary.

DB 6 February 2019 

"In the north aisle are extensive traces of a scheme of wall paintings in red, black, blue and yellow depicting mounted knights wearing surcoats and closed helms".

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061769 

DB 20 August 2018

This one of several roof bosses conserved and mounted on display at the west end of the church.

April 2016

Detail of decorative tiling which wraps around the wall beside and behind the altar.

DB 16 August 2020

Victorian encaustic floor tiles possibly by Minton. 

DB 14 August 2018

 The chancel ceiling was decorated by Stephen Dykes-Bower* in 1959.

August 2016

* Stephen Dykes Bower (1903-1994) was a renowned Gothic Revival designer, responsible for restoration work in many churches including Westminster Abbey. 

Jean Howard, 12 March 2022

The capital supporting one of the ribs in the vaulted apse.

May 2016

One of two carved figures, above and to either side of the great west door, inside the church.

DB 4 November 2021

One of two carved figures, above and to either side of the great west door, inside the church.

DB 4 November 2021

Carved stone head and shoulders of an angel at the south-west corner of the battlement above the south aisle.

June 2008

Bromhead Crest at west end of church.

A silver unicorn's head with a red rose in its mouth.

DB 16 June 2018

Carving of bishop's head at springing point of arch.

August 2017

A small area of early wall decoration uncovered on the wall of the nave.

August 2017

‘Incorporated within the north wall [of the north aisle] are fragments of a C15 tomb chest with cusped rectangles containing single shields.’

July 2019  

One of the superb paper model angels hanging in the nave of St Andrew's church. Created by Martin Pridgeon, they formed a unique decoration for Christmas 2012.

April 2015

At either end of the moulding of the north aisle arcade is an end stop in the form of a head. This one depicts a queen, presumably a young Queen Victoria, fashioned at the 1849 restoration of the church.

Jean Howard, 8 October 2021

At either end of the moulding of the north aisle arcade is an end stop depicting a head.

This one is of a bishop, presumably representing Bishop John Kaye who was Bishop of Lincoln at the time of the restoration of the church in 1849.

Jean Howard, 8 October 2021

The ceiling over the chancel and apse are decorated with a red and black stencilled pattern.

May 2016

Chancel remade in C19 ... panelled ceiling has painted symbols of the passion"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165761  

DB 31 August 2020

The tiled interior of the chancel and the reredos with its mosaics date from the restoration in 1874 by Butterfield.

September 2014

Jean Howard, 15 June 2021

Another element in the decorative scheme in the chancel, this doorway leads into the vestry. A frieze of oak leaves frames the attractive opening.

Jean Howard, 15 June 2021

An eighteenth-century painting of Death on the west wall in an arched panel.

Mark Acton, 2016

A well-illuminated chancel with colourful reredos (triptych).

September 2017

Minton tiles cover the sanctuary floor around the altar.

July 2013

One of the surviving five roof angels, all of whom have curly hair and carry a shield.

Jean Howard, July 2021