Unveiled 9 September 1973

"460 SQUADRON

ROYAL AUSTRALIAN

AIR FORCE

'TO THOSE WHO SERVED'

BREIGHTON (YORKS)

BINBROOK (LINCS)

FROM

13TH NOVEMBER 1941

TO

2ND OCTOBER 1943

STRIKE AND RETURN"

The memorial commemorates over 900 Australian Airmen who gave their lives flying from Breighton and Binbrook.

DB 10 October 2018

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Market Rasen & Caistor Circuit" (Revised August 1998) Shepherdson & Mumby state :- 

"A Society was formed in 1855 and the foundation stone for a chapel, in Kirmond Road, was laid later in the same year, on the 9th August, and opened before the year ended on the 23th December.

It was renovated and reopened on the 31.7.1872.

The chapel was rebuilt on the same site with the stone laying taking place on the 1.6.1914.

The last service was held on the 1.7.1934 and the congregation then joined with the ex-Wesleyans.

The chapel was let to the Air Ministry from 1941 to 1946, and then let as a youth club from 1946 to 1954.

It was put up for sale in 1954 and sold in 1959 to became the "Queens Hall Village Centre""

DB 10 October 2018

"House. Rear range of c.1700, C18 front raised and altered in late C18 with rear addition of 1899, by Croft and Bentley, Architects"

"The kitchen in the rear wing has an impressive c.1900 cast iron range by Cartwright and Pickering of Louth, in a blue and white tiled surround"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063135

"Gatepiers and wall. Early C18"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147892 

DB 10 October 2018

The Inscription states

"MARQUIS OF GRANBY

BUILT 1695

RESTORED 1999" 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 lists two public houses in Binbrook :-

Fearnley Henry, Plough inn 

Meanwell Elizabeth P. (Mrs.), Marquess of Granby inn 

The Marquess of Granby is now a private house. 

DB 10 October 2018

This plaque, originally located in the former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in the village, concerns the Robinson family who lived at the Grange farm on Ludford Road from at least the 1880s to the First World War.

Sophia was born in Spilsby; her maiden name is uncertain. She and husband Thomas had four children; there were four more children borne by Thomas's first wife, Rachel.

Jean Howard 20 November 2022

This impressive oak carving of the Last Supper, designed as a backdrop (reredos) to the communion table (altar) was removed from the former Wesleyan chapel in Binbrook when it closed. Further details are sought.

Jean Howard 20 November 2022

Binbrook is a village in the Lincolnshire Wolds with a population around 700 people.

The event recorded here is the opening of the Rifle Range prior to the First World War.

Nearby RAF Binbrook is now the village of Brookenby.

postcard, 1909

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 lists two public houses in Binbrook :-

Buttery William, Marquis of Granby P.H. & brewer

Chapman Hy. Plough P.H. & blacksmith

the same two public houses are again listed in 1919 :-

Fearnley Henry, Plough inn 

Meanwell Elizabeth P. (Mrs.), Marquess of Granby inn 

The Marquess of Granby is now a private house. 

DB 10 October 2018

"(i) A chapel was opened on the 27.10.1836 "in a lane off the village centre".

It closed with the opening of the new one, subsequently sold and is now in use as a garage/store shed in what used to be called Ranter's Row and now called Mount Pleasant.

ii) The foundation stone for a second chapel, in Market Place, was laid on the 15.11.1877 but the building not opened until 1879.

The last service was held on the 30.12.1934.

It was sold in 1946 for conversion in to a house and butcher's shop, and is still in use as such" 

DB 10 October 2018

"Pump and 5 bollards.

1910 by Amies and Barford, Peterborough.

Cast iron.

Octagonal pillar pump with moulded base and top, decorated with relief roses and fleur de lys.

Decorated cast iron spout and swept handle.

The bollards are in the form of tapering collared cannon with balls in the mouths.

Nearby a square ashlar stone base now used for a lampstand, records that the pump was erected by public inscription in 1910"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147879 

DB 10 October 2018

The building is of two phases.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 states

"A parish reading-room and library was opened here in 1882, manager, Charles Greetham"

Now functions as a community meeting place.

http://http://beta.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regid=1089956&subid=0 

DB 10 October 2018

"Binbrook Grade II listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Mary and St Gabriel.

There were two village churches, St Mary and St Gabriel, since disappeared.

A new church with joint dedication was built in 1869 by James Fowler"

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

A Traditionalist Church, under the See of Richborough.

http://www.forwardinfaithlincs.org.uk/aboutus.html 

DB 10 October 2018

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"The church of SS. Mary and Gabriel, erected at a cost of about £5000, and consecrated August 3rd, I869, is a building of stone in the Early English style, from designs by the late Mr. James Fowler, architect, of Louth, and consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, organ chamber, south porch and vestry and a western tower, with broach spire, containing a clock and 3 bells.

An organ was placed in the church in 1882, at a cost of about £300.

An oak chancel screen and others have been erected at a cost of about £200, and there are several stained windows and sedilia.

In 1911 a stained window was erected in the chancel to the memory of A. E. Alington, a former member of the choir.

The font, of early date, is octagonal and supported on marble shafts.

DB 10 October 2018

Altar at the east end of the chancel.

"All fittings are 1869"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063134?section=official-list-entry 

DB 3 September 2023

Looking west towards the chancel screen and nave beyond.

DB 3 September 2023

Looking east towards the sanctuary.

DB 3 September 2023

"Chancel screen of 1884"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063134?section=official-list-entry 

Kelly's Directory 1930 notes "an oak chancel screen and others have been erected at a cost of about £200"

DB 3 September 2023

"In the south east wall of the chancel is an elaborate sedilia with cusped trefoil heads and crocketed gables"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063134?section=official-list-entry 

DB 3 September 2023

The Church Guide Notes state "The eight stained glass windows of the Victorian era are depictions of the Nativity, the Passion and the Resurrection as well as other events in the New Testament".

DB 3 September 2023

The Church Guide Notes state "The eight stained glass windows of the Victorian era are depictions of the Nativity, the Passion and the Resurrection as well as other events in the New Testament".

DB 3 September 2023

The Church Guide Notes state "The eight stained glass windows of the Victorian era are depictions of the Nativity, the Passion and the Resurrection as well as other events in the New Testament". 

Crocketed gables of the sedilia silhouetted against the window.

DB 3 September 2023

Kelly's Directory 1930 notes "in 1911 a stained window was erected in the chancel to the memory of A. E. Alington, a former member of the choir"

DB 3 September 2023

The Church Guide Notes state "The eight stained glass windows of the Victorian era are depictions of the Nativity, the Passion and the Resurrection as well as other events in the New Testament".

DB 3 September 2023

Many Commonwealth War Graves in the churchyard.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

The burial ground was enlarged by the addition of a piece of land presented by the Rev. Francis Edwin Allen M. A. rector 188I-6. 

DB 10 October 2018

"Churchyard cross. C14. Ashlar.

Square base block supports rectangular tapering shaft with chamfered angles surmounted by a cross with scrolled arms and central pierced quatrefoil"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147865 

DB 10 October 2018

"The font is C14 and has plain octagonal bowl now supported on C19 marble shafts and ashlar base"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063134?section=official-list-entry 

DB 3 September 2023

Looking west towards the tower arch. 

DB 3 September 2023

Looking east towards the chancel.

White's Directory 1872 states :-

"St. Mary's Church, formerly a small plain structure, was pulled down in 1867, and the present handsome Gothic one rebuilt on its site, at a cost of £5,500.

It consists of nave, chancel, aisles, porch, and tower containing three bells and a clock, surmounted by a spire.

In the church are four beautiful stained glass windows, and there are sittings for 560 souls.

The benefice is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £10. 4s. 2d. St. Gabriel's vicarage, valued in K.B. at £8, is now consolidated with St. Mary's rectory, and the joint benefices are now valued at about £310, in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor, and the incumbency of the Rev. John Thomas Huntley, M.A., J.P. The Rev. James Seller is the curate"

DB 3 September 2023

Nave viewed from the tower. 

DB 15 September 2024

"The circular ashlar pulpit is supported on low round columns and has trefoil headed blank arcading round the sides"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063134?section=official-list-entry 

DB 3 September 2023

Nave roof presumably dating from the 1869 rebuild by James Fowler of Louth.

DB 3 September 2023

Nave roof viewed from the tower.

DB 15 September 2024

Looking west.

DB 3 September 2023

Looking east.

DB 3 September 2023

Chapel at the east end of the north aisle.

DB 3 September 2023

"THIS CHAPEL OF ST.GABRIEL IS DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF GEORGE FREDERICK SLEIGHT OF BINBROOK HALL. AT REST SEPTEMBER 17th 1954 . AGED 64. MAY HE REST IN PEACE"

DB 3 September 2023

"On the north wall of the aisle is an hatchment of 1864 to Richard Bewley Caton"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063134?section=official-list-entry 

DB 3 September 2023

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF Sqd/Ldr L.H. GLASSPOOL D.F.C. DIED IN ACTION 27TH APRIL 1944 AGED 24 YEARS. AND HIS BELOVED DAUGHTER JUDITH MAY DIED 27TH APRIL 1979 AGED 37 YEARS."

DB 3 September 2023

"PARISH OF BINBROOK ROLL OF HONOUR 1939-1945" 

Located on the west wall of the nave to the side of the tower arch.

DB 3 September 2023

Located adjacent to the RAF Memorial Window.

DB 3 September 2023

Text in the glass reads "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO COMMEMORATE THE LIFE AND WORK OF ROYAL AIR FORCE BINBROOK 1940-1988 AND IN GRATITUDE FOR THE HELP AND SUPPORT IN THE VILLAGE"

"Royal Air Force Binbrook or RAF Binbrook is a former Royal Air Force station located near Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England. The old domestic site (married quarters) has been renamed to become the village of Brookenby. RAF Binbrook was primarily used by Bomber Command in the Second World War. The Central Fighter Establishment moved to Binbrook from RAF West Raynham between 1959 and 1962 and two English Electric Lightning squadrons were stationed there between 1965 and 1988"

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

DB 3 September 2023

"In the chancel north wall is a double chamfered archway to the organ chamber"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063134?section=official-list-entry 

Kelly's Directory 1930 notes "an organ was placed in the church in 1882, at a cost of about £300"

A maker's plaque reads "COUSANS (LINCOLN) LTD. CITY ORGAN WORKS, LINCOLN." 

DB 3 September 2023

Looking east.

DB 3 September 2023

Chapel at the east end of the south aisle.

DB 3 September 2023

"IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF MAJOR PETER HENRY WOODTHORPE CLARKE, M.C. THE LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. OF BINBROOK MANOR, KILLED IN ACTION IN GERMANY 3RD MARCH, 1945, AGED 23 YEARS. SO HE PASSED OVER, AND ALL THE TRUMPETS SOUNDED FOR HIM ON THE OTHER SIDE."

See also

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/53957 

DB 3 September 2023

Window, above the altar, at the east end of the south aisle.

A depiction of the annunciation? 

DB 3 September 2023

Text in the glass reads "the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made". A quotation from Acts 9:39.

DB 3 September 2023

Tower surmounted by a broach spire.

DB 10 October 2018

Clock mechanism "B.COOKE & SON, HULL, 1869".

https://bcookeandson.co.uk/about/history 

DB 15 September 2024

Graffiti inside the tower.

DB 15 September 2024

View upwards inside the spire.

DB 15 September 2024

"Binbrook War Memorial was dedicated on Easter Sunday, 27 March 1921.

It was the work of local memorial masons Messrs Mawr Bros of Louth, who were responsible for numerous other war memorials in the region, including Conisholme and Welton Le Wold.

The unveiling was carried out by Mr Walter George Moncaster and Mr Frank Soulby, former servicemen, at a ceremony led by local clergy and attended by villagers who had processed from the old Market Place.

After the Second World War, additional names were inscribed onto the memorial"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1435414 

Kelly's Directory 1930 notes "In the churchyard is a Celtic cross of Cornish granite, erected in 1922 in memory of the men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18; on the cross is a crusader's sword in relief, and on the base is an inscription and the names of those who fell"

DB 10 October 2018

Modern war memorial situated in the Market Place near the Manor House.

DB 10 October 2018

Image shows the third Wesleyan Methodist chapel built on High Street in 1877/78.

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Market Rasen & Caistor Circuit" (Revised August 1998) Shepherdson & Mumby state :- 

"i) A Society was formed in 1769 and a chapel built in 1796.

ii) The building of a new chapel, in the High Street, commenced in 1815 but it was not opened until the 1.9.1816. ...

iii) The foundation stone for the third chapel, on the other side of the High Street, was laid on the 15.11.1877. Designed by Bellamy & Hardy of Lincoln. the chapel opened on the 13.6.1878"

Binbrook Methodist Church left its building in 2003 :-

http://www.woldsandtrentmethodist.org.uk/churches/1-binbrook 

DB 10 October 2018

Image shows the second Wesleyan Methodist chapel built on High Street in 1815/16.

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Market Rasen & Caistor Circuit” (Revised August 1998) Shepherdson & Mumby state

"i) A Society was formed in 1769 and a chapel built in 1796.

ii) The building of a new chapel, in the High Street, commenced in 1815 but it was not opened until the 1.9.1816.

It was used as a Sunday school for many years after the opening of the third chapel in 1878.

Some time later it was sold and is now in use as a builder's store"

DB 10 October 2018