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Built in the late eighteenth century with later additions, Bethel Baptist Chapel is Grade II listed.
It remains in active use as a place of worship.
April 2018



The beautiful, sinuous lines of a Bronze Age sword are unmistakable.
Although fragments of Bronze Age swords are not uncommon, complete swords are still rare finds.
This sword, from Billinghay, was found in 1852.
It belongs to a series of swords known as the 'Ewart Park' type, dating to the late Bronze Age, c.950-800BC.
Courtesy of Lincolnshire County Council, The Collection

The former Butchers Arms in Bridge Street closed in 1970.
Mark Acton, 2018

A lamp over the front door recalling ownership by Halls of Ely brewery.
Mark Acton, 2018

This former pub, closed in 1956, belonged to Soulby, Sons & Winch brewery.
Mark Acton, 2018

This six-floored mill on Walcot Road had six sails, although, as was commonly the case, it ran with four sails when sails were under maintenance or repair.
Jon Sass Collection, photograph c.1928

The sails and fan on Field Mill were removed in 1938 following a lightning strike and the empty tower was reduced in height in the 1960s.
Location of mill: TF 143 551
Peter Kirk Collection, 1999
Former Golden Cross public house.
Listed in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 "Singleton Philip, Golden Cross P.H"
DB 25 June 2020

Lincolnshire Life reports "Another interesting feature is the mosaic which tells a potted history of Billinghay, including the settling of the Romans there in the 1st century AD; the seventeenth century draining of the Fens to create farmland - which then saw the crops ground in the village windmills; 1987 when Billinghay was twinned with French village Ballon and the great fire of 9th September 1864.
The mosaic was created by a local group called the Billinghay Nibblers between 2000 & 2007"
https://www.lincolnshirelife.co.uk/posts/view/village-with-characterful-tales-to-tell
DB 13 June 2020

Billinghay is a large village in the Witham fen between Lincoln, Horncastle, Sleaford and Boston. The Roman Car Dyke passes through the parish.
The major land drain in the area, the Billinghay Skirth, runs to the east of the village and up to the Witham near Tattershall Bridge.
The New Bridge crosses this drain to give access from the village to the A153, the former Horncastle to Sleaford turnpike road.
The tall chimney in the centre background is thought to be at the Billinghay North and Walcot Dales Pumping Station (TF 177559). The pump was operated by steam engine from 1864 to 1940.
undated postcard (by B. Smith of Heckington)

The date stone, missing in this image but which has subsequently been replaced, reads "PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL 1850 RENOVATED 2017"
"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states :-
"The first chapel was erected in 1851, in West Street, and is now in use as a storehouse"
The front of the building, facing onto West Street, formally had a central doorway but no windows.
DB 25 June 2018

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states :-
"The second chapel was erected in the High Street in 1912 and closed on the 6.1.1996.
The chapel is currently standing empty"
Now in use as a private house.
DB 13 June 2020

Listed in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1909 "Taylor Robert, Ship inn"
Two public houses listed in White's Directory 1856 "Bones James, vict. Cross Keys" & "Stringer Wm. vict. Golden Cross" also a brewer "Johnson Wm. brewer" and four beerhouses.
Ship Inn closed along with all other public houses, when this picture was taken, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
DB 13 June 2020

A signpost remembering villager Fred Gilbert.
'Fred Gilbert was a piano teacher who rode around the village on an old-fashioned bicycle. He was so short-sighted that he wore up to three pairs of spectacles on his nose at the same time. Lessons were spent looking for lost pairs.'
Mark Acton, 2018

A signpost remembering villager Nickel Bavin.
'During the 1920's local prizefighter Nickel Bavin would always oblige if called upon for a fight. His contests happened in the Market Place, on raw stones and gravel. He was a popular attraction at the annual October Fair.'
Mark Acton, 2018

South Mill was built in about 1806 on the site of an earlier post mill in Victoria Street.
It was raised by two storeys in 1830 after the top had been wrecked in a storm.
Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

This is the surviving stump of a seven-storey four-sailed mill built on Victoria Street. It last worked in the 1930s.
Location of mill: TF 153 551
Peter Kirk Collection, 1999

Built in about 1830 on the site of an earlier post mill in Victoria Street. There remains only a small part of the brick tower.
Painting by Karl Wood, 1932

The Early English west tower of St Michael's church, Billinghay.
The broach spire with flying buttresses was added in 1787.
August 2012

St Michael's Billinghay has an Early English west tower, with a broach spire with flying buttresses added in 1787.
Much of the church is Early English and Decorated, with a Perpendicular clerestory to the nave.
August 2012

Another view of the church from the south-east.
April 2018

The spire of St Michael's church was rebuilt in 1912.
April 2018




The quatrefoil piers in the south arcade are from the late Early English period.
April 2018



An ogee headed piscina beside the main altar.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

‘The chancel has a Minton tile floor, a small ogee headed piscina, and a C19 wood and brass altar rail.’
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1204770?section=official-list-entry
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

Just to the right inside the churchyard gate is this marble headstone with an intriguing narrative:
In Memory of/ REV. T. SANDYS,/ AGED 68/ FOR 41 YEARS/ MISSIONARY IN INDIA,/ WHO DIED 8TH NOVEMBER 1871/ FROM THE EFFECTS/ OF AN ACCIDENT AT/ BILLINGHAY,/ WHEN ON HIS WAY TO PREACH/ FOR THE/ CHURCH MISSIONARY/ SOCIETY
Jean Howard 8 January 2025

Sandys’ gravestone refers to ‘an accident at Billinghay’. This image is taken from a news cutting, now rather difficult to read, displayed in the church.
Research reveals that Timothy Sandys was born in Leicester and became a Sunday School teacher. Challenged to become a missionary he was ordained, married in Leicester on 26 December 1829 and sailed with his new wife Rebecca on 1st January 1830 to Calcutta where he became an energetic and popular missionary. After bearing him seven children Rebecca died in 1853. He remarried in Calcutta the next year: he and Emily had a further four children. Clearly he had returned to England where he arranged to speak about the Church Missionary Society. Billinghay’s Revd Jenkins picked him up from Tattershall railway station in an open carriage; just yards from their destination the horse was startled and they were both thrown from the carriage. Although apparently uninjured Sandys died only days later. The sixth edition of The Church Missionary Atlas pub. 1879 records of Kistopore, near Calcutta, on p72 "Here a pretty Gothic church has been recently built as a memorial to the Rev. T Sandys, who for more than forty years faithfully laboured as a Missionary in Calcutta and environs.”
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

First World War memorial to Corporal J.Hildred and Staff Nurse N.Wilson buried in the churchyard.
DB 25 June 2020


A typical font of the Perpendicular (15th century) period, octagonal in section with panel tracery.
April 2018



View of the church interior looking east. The south arcade (right) dates from the thrteenth century, the north (left) from the fourtheenth.
April 2018

Billinghay St Michael looking east
The contrasting arcades can be appreciated in this view: the south arcade is earlier, from the first half of the 13th century, with quatrefoil columns and deeply moulded arches; the north arcade columns are octagonal and slightly later in the century. The church guide suggests the clerestorey was added in the 14th century but the hood moulding indicates 16th century.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

Billinghay St Michael looking west
The line of the nave roof before the addition of the clerestorey can be seen above the Commandment boards.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025


Mass dial visible on this butress.
"Some 3,000 mass, tide or scratch dials have been recorded in the UK.
Typically located on the south wall of a parish church, this form of sundial was used to mark the "variable" time of liturgical services in the medieval world."
http://www.buildingconservation.com/articles/mass-dials/mass-dials.htm
See also
http://sundialsoc.org.uk/dials_menu/mass-dials/
DB 25 June 2018

Bernard Gilbert was a poet, playwright, novelist and journalist who reflected on life in Lincolnshire, especially during the First World War.
He wrote series of articles for the Lincooln Gazette. Some of his poems are in Lincolnshire dialect.
April 2018




An engraved brass plaque reads:
IN TENDER LOVING MEMORY OF/ CHARLES LEEDALE SOUTH/ KILLED ON THE BATTLE FIELD IN FRANCE/ OCT. 23RD 1918 AGED 22 YEARS./ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man/ lay down his life for his friends.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025




The organ chamber was built on in 1895.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

The rather 'rickety' south porch has a coped gable with gabled kneelers and a cross finial, plus stone benches inside.
April 2019

These two monuments are on the east wall of the south porch. That on the left reads: SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM PETCHEL/ WHO DIED AT HECKINGTON, NOVR 15TH 1861/ AGED 73 YEARS./ ALSO OF WILLIAM PETCHEL,/ SECOND SON OF THE ABOVE,/ WHO DIED IN AFRICA, DECR 4TH 1859,/ AGED 30 YEARS./ AND OF ROBERT PETCHEL,/ FOURTH SON OF THE ABOVE./ WHO DIED IN IRELAND JANY 3RD 1861/ AGED 28 YEARS.
The oval tablet to the right says: SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ ANN JESSOP,/ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE/ MAY 31.1807,/ AGED 84 YEARS./ AND OF ARTHUR JESSOP,/ SON OF THE ABOVE,/ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE/ FEBRUARY 20.1823/ AGED 62 YEARS.
Jean Howard 8 January 2025


The pulpit has the following wording incised: To the Rev A C P JENKINS M A/ 47 Years Vicar/ of this Parish/ by his Friends
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

Billinghay St Michael WWII roll of honour.
BILLINGHAY/ ROLL OF HONOUR/ 1939-1945/ CLAUDE HOWARD BEE/ Sapper, Royal Engineers. Died as a Prisoner of/ War in Malaya, August 2nd 1943 Aged 24 years/ MAURICE A COULING/ Ordinary Seaman, Royal Navy. Lost at Sea - / December 17th 1940/ JOHN HICKLING/ Pilot Officer, Royal Air Force Killed in Action/ August 31st 1943 – Aged 29 years./ HARRY DOUGLAS LOUTH/ Driver, R.A.S.C. Killed in Italy January 21st/ 1945. Buried in the British Cemetery, Ravenna./ DENNIS WILLIAM WELLS/ Able Seaman, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Electra. Died/ in Java. February 27th 1942. Aged 21 years.
The Roll of Honour for the First World War is about to undergo conservation.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

Although no lower door now exists there has been a stairway up to a rood loft. As can be seen in the photo, taken from the nave, this looks to have given access both to the loft of a screen across the chancel arch and also another screen across the south aisle.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

The timber roof with tie-beams, arched braces and bosses dates from the sixteenth century.
April 2018

"The nave has a very fine 16th century wooden roof with wooden carved bosses”
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1204770?section=official-list-entry
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

Sited on the west wall of the nave. Royal Arms of 1801-16. Marked at the base 'Anthony Radford Churchwarden 1801 Everitt Painter'. The board also contains the Lord's Prayer, the Commandments & the Creed.
Mark Acton, 2018


A small plaque on the altar rail records:
THIS ALTAR TABLE WAS MADE BY ERIC WILSON/ AND IS GIVEN IN MEMORY OF ERIC AND LILIAN/ WHO DIED ON 13TH JANUARY 1994/ AND 28TH MAY 1992 BY THEIR CHILDREN/ MICHAEL AND JANE
Jean Howard 13 January 2025



Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-
"The church of St. Michael is a large edifice of oolitic stone, in the Early Perpendicular and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, with organ chamber and vestry (added in 1895 at the cost of £104), nave, aisles, south porch and a western tower, with pinnacles and spire, containing a clock and 3 bells:
the aisles are separated from the nave by arcades of plain Pointed arches, with clustered columns on the south side and octagonal columns on the north side and the east window is stained:
in 1880 a memorial pulpit with a prayer desk; costing about. £40, was erected by friends of the Rev. Edward Charles Frederick Jenkins M.A. vicar 1832-80:
the north aisle was rebuilt and the church thoroughly restored and reseated in 1856, and the chancel has also been restored:
there are 300 sittings"
DB 25 June 2018

Detail of clock on the west face of the tower.
"C19 metal clock face with above again a small plaque inscribed W:K. 1787"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1204770
DB 25 June 2020

‘The tower arch is double chamfered and pointed with single shaft responds with moulded capitals and bases.’
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1204770?section=official-list-entry
Jean Howard 13 January 2025


The windmill is South's or Black Mill.
It worked until just before the Second World War. Only the derelict bottom two storeys remain.
undated postcard

The old vicarage, now a listed building, was sold in 1734 when this replacement vicarage was built.
DB 25 June 2020

"Cottage. Early C18 with late C18 and C20 alterations"
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061744
"A cottage built in the mid 17th century which served as a vicarage until 1734. The building was converted to a museum and visitor centre in c.1989"
DB 23 August 2020

To the right are the memorial cross dedicated in 1922 and the now closed Cross Keys pub. Smith's mill is in the distance.
Postcard by Raphael Tuck sent in 1940.

The Memorial stands at the junction of Church Street and Bridge Street. It is made of Glencoe grey granite and consists of a round column rising from a square plinth to an elaborate fleur-de-lys. It is listed Grade II:
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1434868?section=official-list-entry
See also:
https://www.roll-of-honour.com/Lincolnshire/Billinghay.html
for more information about those commemorated.
Jean Howard 8 January 2025

The names of those who died are listed on all four faces of the base. Although the memorial was dedicated 16 April 1922, names were added after the Second World War and, following further research, additional names relating to both wars were added in 2009. These included Robert Forth, Frederick Pask and George Wells on this face.
Jean Howard 8 January 2025

On the edge of the village at National Grid Reference TF143551.
According to a Tweet by Anglian Water "It holds 0.6million litres and was built in the 1950s"
DB 13 June 2020

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states :-
"i) A dwelling house was licensed for worship in 1793.
The Society subsequently rented a chapel, erected in 1817, but in 1832 they built their own chapel in King Street.
This chapel has since been demolished.
ii) The second chapel, in Victoria Street, was built in 1867 but very soon had to be demolished and was replaced in 1869 by another on the same site.
This chapel is still in use"
DB 25 June 2018

Still in use at the time of this visit and now with two new noticeboards. The infilling of the former two entrances for a larger central one has given capacity for stepped and ramped access and better use of space within. This comprises a glazed inner porch with a small office to the right and a disabled toilet to the left.
Jean Howard 8 January 2025

This view from the porch shows the raised dais with decorative iron railings, lectern and organ. Blue hymn books, banners and carpet unify the interior. Note the ceiling roses and the decorative mouldings to the cornice.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

Looking from the dais back to the entrance area, showing blue and lilac seat cushions. Great care has been taken to ensure symmetry even to the pair of noticeboards at the back. The former gallery above the entrance is no longer used and is curtained off.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

This signature was found in the Bible on display. John Locking Willows was born in Tetney in 1837. He married Rebecca Callow at Sleaford in 1857 and they moved to Billinghay where he appears in the 1861 census as a baker. From 1871 to 1891 he is described as a baker and grocer but he had retired to Lincoln by 1901 leaving his elder son Edward to operate the business in Billinghay.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

The detail of the central rose has been picked out in peach to match the two end walls of the room.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

Displayed in a silver frame this photograph is of Edith Marriott who was a Sunday School teacher in the 1970s and 1980s.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

This cross-stitch panel is displayed in the entrance porch. It was completed in 2000 and represents all the many organisations that existed in the village at the time.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

Billinghay chapel millennium embroidery key
Above the fabric panel this calligraphy explains the organisations represented and the craftsperson who worked each section. From the top left-hand corner these are: Toddlers Club, Ruth Allen; The Rainbows, Lynne Blades; The Brownies, Lynne Blades; Girl Guides, Ruth Allen; The Scouts, Jane White; Swimming Pool, Judy Humpherston; Play Group, Val Beckett; Cricket Club, Val Beckett; Local Dialect, Val Beckett; C of E School, Sue Kent; Parish Church, Diane Tonge; Lafford High School, Shirley Rowett; Medical Practice, Loraine Gilbert; Billinghay Rovers Football Club, Teresa Coupland; Billinghay Football Club, Alison Lawson; Methodist Church, Cynthia Creasey; The Water Tower, Margaret Baker; Billinghay 2000, Jane White; War Memorial, Diane Tonge; Baptist Chapel, Loraine Gilbert; The Bowls Club, Alison Lawson; Billinghay Feast, Diane Tonge; British Legion Men’s Section, Kath Hansard; Twinning with Ballon-France, Lydia Hodson; Village Hall, Val Beckett; River Skirth, Shirley Wright; British Legion Women’s Section, Kath Hansard; Tennis Club, Diane Tonge; Young Farmers, Shirley Wright; Museum, Kathryn Tonge; Tuesday Club, Melissa Coupland; The Mill, Kathleen Smith; Darby & Joan, Margaret Baker; R.A.O.B. St David’s Lodge, Kathleen Smith; Fire Service, Shirley Rowitt.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

No maker’s mark could be found on the instrument.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

A closer view of the focal point of the service.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

A beautiful and unusual memorial of grey marble depicting an angel holding a square of fabric on which the names are engraved: TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN SACRED MEMORY OF THOSE/ OF THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914-1919. Then in two columns: S. G. ATCHINSON, J. E. BAILEY, J. BAVIN, H. BEE, G. CHAMBERLAIN, E. CUNNINGTON, A. FRANKLIN, J. HARVEY, W. HARVEY, J. HILDRED, E. KETTLES, J. KING, J. KNOTT, J. MASON, G. MAPLETHORPE, A. MUFFITT, J. R. PALEY, J. R. PALMER, L. W. RIPPON, W. R. SAWYER, F. SCOTT, J. SHARP, H. SHARP, H. SPENCER, C. L. SOUTH, A. J. SUMPTER, J. E. TAYLOR, W. H. TOULSON, T. A. TOWL, W. VICKERS, W. H. WATSON, J. WATTAM, R. L. WILLIAMSON, A. WELLS, SISTER N. WILLSON An additional brass plaque beneath adds: Dedicated to the Glory of God/ In loving memory of the men connected/ with this Church who sacrificed/ their lives in the Great War 1914-1918.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

Billinghay chapel WWII War Memorial
Beneath the memorial for the Great War is one of white marble on a wooden backing remembering the two chapel members who lost their lives in the Second World War.
Jean Howard 13 January 2025

Image repeated from North Kyme. Coach & Horses is on the outskirts of Billinghay but actually in the parish of Kyme.
As Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1905 puts it "A small stream, called the Skirth, sometimes navigable, and dividing North Kyme from Billinghay, passes through the parish, which is also traversed by the old Roman Car dyke"
Listed in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1905 "Smith Joseph, Coach & Horses P.H. & farmer"
Signboard recently removed as witness the cones in the foreground - for sale when this image was taken with offers over £300,000 requested.
DB 25 June 2020

Image repeated from North Kyme. Kesteven House is on the outskirts of Billinghay but actually in the parish of Kyme.
Former police station dating from late C19.
https://www.lincstothepast.com/Kesteven-House--Tattershall-Road--Billinghay/239540.record?pt=S
DB 25 June 2018