Aisthorpe Hall was built in the seventeenth century and extended in 1821.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

The stables were built in the eighteenth century.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

On the entrance to the stables at Aisthorpe Hall is this coat of arms. The initials J.B. refer to Joseph Billiat.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

Over the stables of the Hall is this fine cupola with lead covered ogee roof and weather vane surmounted by a quill feather.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

Aisthorpe Cricket Club was "Founded in 1895 ... 

After a less than auspicious start to its life, beginning on a losing streak, which it found hard to recover from, it took a necessary break in 1914, not to return in any form until 1932 ...

it was resurrected again in 1946, thanks to the efforts of Dr Monteith at Aisthorpe Hall ...

During the 1960s and 1970s Aisthorpe were often winning the League, and Major Hoult Division One Trophies" 

http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/brattleby/section.asp?catId=37043 

The pavillion stands just to the east of Aisthorpe Hall at National Grid Reference SK 94743 80570.

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Gate Lodge to Aisthorpe Hall marked on OS 25 inch map published 1886.

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The south elevation of the Old Rectory, built in 1876.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

RAF Scampton also extends into the neighbouring parishes of Aisthorpe and Brattleby.

Bulk fuel installation at National Grid Reference SK 96178 79958 close to the site of the former Aisthorpe House.

"RAF Scampton currently has one BFI (Bulk Fuel Installation) for aviation fuel, which is a former NATO installation (BFI 7).

Until closure in 1996, RAF Scampton was connected to the Government Pipeline Storage System (GPSS), which supplied AVTUR (F34) to BFI 7 from an underground pipeline running from a depot at Mistarton.

The fuel was premixed with corrosion and ice inhibiting chemicals before being pumped into the system.

The pipeline entered the site from the west from a spur of the main pipeline and connected to the PRE from where fuel was pumped directly to BFI 7 via an underground pipeline.

The pipeline was fitted with cathodic protection and was tested on a regular basis.

The pipeline is now disconnected and the on site section of pipeline running between the PRE to BFI 7 was removed in 1996.

At present, 18 000 litre bowsers travel by road from RAFC Cranwell to fill BFI 7 on a daily basis, having to cross the main runway at the 05 threshold to access the BFI"

http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2020-0094/Annex_M_RAF_Scampton_LQA.pdf 

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RAF Scampton also extends into the neighbouring parishes of Aisthorpe and Brattleby.

"RAF Scampton stands on the site of a First World War Royal Flying Corps landing field, which had been called Brattleby.

The station was closed and returned to agriculture following the First World War, and reactivated in the 1930s.

It has provided an airfield for fighters in the First World War, bombers during the Second World War and V-force Avro Vulcans during the Cold War ...

Since the temporary closure of RAF Scampton in 1996, and subsequent reactivation, the base has provided a home ... to private companies, temporarily, such as Hawker Hunter Aviation, for the maintenance and storage of aircraft"

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

Facilities pictured near National Grid reference SK 958 804. 

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Former school now a private residence. 

White's Directory 1872 states "Here is a small day school, attended by about 20 children".

The school must then have closed because Kelly's Directory 1919 states "The children of this parish attend the schhools at; Brattleby & Scampton".

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A neglected building in an isolated spot on the edge of the village with an overgrown churchyard.

It was built by T C Hine in 1867 with a short broach spire - hardly typical of this part of the county.

Windows and tracery are thirteenth century in style.

August 2013

The windows and tracery of St Peter's are thirteenth century in style.

August 2013

Kelly's Directory 1919 states "T'he church of St. Peter is an edifice of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry, north porch and an embattled western tower, with spire, containing 5 bells:

the stained east window is a memorial to the Rev. Charles Bernal; the west window was given by the Rev. William Charles Salter M.A.  rector of Brattleby, 1861-84, and some time principal of St. Alban Hall, Oxford:

the church was re-built in 1868, at a cost of £2,500, by the late Rev. Robert William Otter B.A. rector from 1850, from designs by Mr. T. C. Hine, architect:

there are 150 sittings"

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White's Directory 1856, before the church was rebuilt in 1867, states that "The Church (St. Peter) is a small structure, with a nave, chancel, and tower"

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White's Directory 1872 states "The Church (St. Peter), rebuilt in 1867, wholly at the expense of the present rector, is a neat stone structure, in the Early English style, consisting of nave, chancel, north porch, vestry, and a tower containing five bells and surmounted with a spire.

The east window is filled with beautiful stained glass, representing various events in the life of Our Lord, and was inserted in 1870, by the rector, in memory of the Rev. Charles Bernal.

The building is fitted with open benches, furnishing 110 sittings, and contains a good organ"

DB 13 November 2020

"Parish church. 1867 by T. C. Hine of Nottingham"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359462 

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The Springline Parish Website states that :-

"Aisthorpe church is closed for regular worship although the church has not been legally denoted as closed or redundant and the churchyard is still open.

The Church Commissioners, The Diocese of Lincoln and the Springline Parochial Church Council will need to make a decision as to the future use of this lovely village church in Lincolnshire"

https://springlineparish.co.uk/st-peters-church-aisthorpe/ 

DB 23 September 2021

Looking back through the screen and into the nave.

Some of the roof tiles have slipped and birds have gained access to the building. Church now in a very poor condition.

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"Behind the altar a reredos with 5 small. arches springing from marble colonettes"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359462 

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Looking across the chancel from the organ chamber.

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"Oak chancel and tower screens in the Perpendicular style"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359462 

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Looking east towards the screen.

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Entrance to the churchyard with boot scraper built into the gate pier.

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"Chancel east window of 3 lights of plate tracery with octofoil over"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359462 

White's Directory 1872 states that "The east window is filled with beautiful stained glass, representing various events in the life of Our Lord, and was inserted in 1870, by the rector, in memory of the Rev. Charles Bernal".

DB 23 September 2021

"Octagonal font with floriate decorated panels and fine brass mounted cover"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359462 

Brass mounted cover not evident.

DB 23 September 2021

A list of "Incumbents of Saint Mary Magdalen of West Thorpe or Thorpe-In-The-Fallows. The final name being John Welles 1567-8 after which the Vicarage of Thorpe-In-The-Fallows was united with the Rectory of Aisthorpe. 

Displayed at the west end of the nave.

DB 23 September 2021

A list of "Incumbents of Saint Peter Aisthorpe" displayed at the west end of the nave. The final name being Francis Henry Duggins 1918 (Rural Dean 1927).

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A framed message of congratulations to the Rev. Francis Henry Duggins on his 80th birthday 2nd September 1933. Signed by incumbents of the West Lawres Deanery.

Kelly's Directory 1930 states "The living is a discharged rectory, with the vicarage of West Thorpe, or Thorpe-in-the-Fallows, joint net yearly value £385 and house, in the gift, of Joseph Billiat esq. and held since 1918 by the Rev. Francis Henry Duggins M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford".

DB 23 September 2021

Memorial to Elizabeth the infant daughter of John L. & Frances Milnes died 5 January 1829.

Presumably transferred from the old St Peters when the church was re-built in 1868. 

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In memory of George Roberts Gent. who died 1st July 1760.

Presumably transferred from the old St Peters when the church was re-built in 1868.

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In memory of Winifred Roberts d.1907 and HDR Roberts d.1892 of Thorpe.

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Memorial to Sidney Townsend "killed in action near Ypres, Belgium 13 May 1915"

His brother Walter Townsend a casualty of the Boxer Rebellion commemorated nearby.

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Memorial to Walter Townsend "severely wounded during the siege of the Legations at Pekin, China".

"The Battle of Beijing, or historically the Relief of Peking, was the battle fought on 14-15 August 1900 in Beijing, in which the Eight-Nation Alliance relieved the siege of the Beijing Legation Quarter during the Boxer Rebellion. From 20 June 1900, Boxers and Imperial Chinese Army troops had besieged foreign diplomats, citizens and soldiers within the legations of Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Spain and the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Peking_(1900) 

DB 23 September 2021

A group of three memorials on the south side of the nave towards the west end which seem to have been transferred from the old St Peters when the church was re-built in 1868.

DB 23 September 2021

Memorial to Rev. Timothy Mangles a former Rector d.1803.

Presumably transferred from the old St Peters when the church was re-built in 1868.

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Looking west towards the tower arch.

"Tall double chamfered tower arch dies into imposts"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359462 

DB 23 September 2021

A second view looking west.

DB 23 September 2021

Looking east towards the inscribed chancel arch.

The inscription reads "TEACH ME TO DO THY WILL FOR THOU ART MY GOD THY SPIRIT IS GOOD LEAD ME IN TO THE LAND OF UPRIGHTNESS"

Mention is made in the Historic England listing of "3 brass 2 tier candelabra" however these were no longer in evidence.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359462 

DB 23 September 2021

An organ chamber but no organ - some of the organ pipes remaining.

Whites Directory 1872 comments that the church "contains a good organ".

DB 23 September 2021

"Gabled north porch with pointed headed doorway"

http://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359462 

DB 13 November 2020

"Inside a single chamfered doorway without capitals"

http://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359462 

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"Fittings all 1867"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359462 

DB 23 September 2021

A second view of the pulpit.

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Parts of the clock mechanism now on the tower floor.

DB 23 September 2021

"In the west wall a wheel window with moulded surround and lobes separated by colonettes"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359462 

Kelly's Directory 1930 states that "the west window was given by the Rev. William Charles Salter M.A. rector of Brattleby 1861-84, and some time principal of St. Alban Hall, Oxford".

DB 23 September 2021

A view over Aisthorpe from Middle Street to the east.

White's Directory 1872 states "AISTHORPE, or East Thorpe, 6 miles N.N.W. of Lincoln, is a parish and small straggling village, containing 110 souls, and 803 acres of land, consisting chiefly of clay.

John Robert Ealand, Esq., of Aisthorpe House, owns and occupies all the land in the parish, except about 40 acres, belonging to the Rector ...

Henry Amcotts, a native of this place, was Lord Mayor of London, in 1548". 

DB 13 November 2020