Former forge now the village shop. 

Shop website has a sepia photograph of the forge taken in 1906 :-

http://www.theoldforgevillageshop.co.uk/ 

Shown as a smithy on 25 inch Ordnance Survey map published 1887.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061896 

DB 2 July 2018

"School formerly small country house. 1707, remodelled 1821".

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360551

Marked as the Rectory on OS 25 inch map published 1886. In 1885 Kelly's Directory has "Sutton Rev. Frdk. Heathcote H. A. [rector].

DB 2020

"The Friends Meeting House is thought to have originally been a barn, which was acquired in 1673 and converted into a meeting house in 1701, when it was encased in stone"

"The building was donated to the Society of Friends in 1701 by Thomas Robinson, a prominent Quaker who moved to Brant Broughton from London in 1665"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Friends-Meeting-House--Meeting-House-Lane--Brant-Broughton/242481.record?pt=S 

DB 2 July 2018

View of the meeting house from the south showing the mixture of building materials. It is a little surprising to find stone used in a lowland village built almost entirely of red brick.

July 2018

"Interior of main Meeting House has original plain dado panelling, raised slightly higher on the north wall behind the raised stand"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061898 

DB 8 September 2018

"Original benches and to the south a wooden panelled screen with openings below and moveable partitions above, screening off the lower small Meeting House and the upper Womens Meeting House"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061898 

DB 8 September 2018

View into the main meeting room from the upper gallery.

"This was formerly the bedroom of the attached cottage and is reached by stairs from the lobby. It was originally used by the women for their own business meetings"

https://www.brantbroughtonquakers.co.uk/archive  

DB 8 September 2018

"Behind the Meeting House is the burial ground which is still used today"

https://www.brantbroughtonquakers.co.uk/archive 

DB 8 September 2018

Date stone with initials of Thomas Robinson.

July 2018

The mounting block at the front of the building was created in 1776 for women who rode pillion behind their husbands.

Additional stables were also built in red brick at the same time.This building survives as an extension at the north end of the meeting room (to the right in this photo).

July 2018

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1876 lists two public houses in Brant Broughton. The Generous Britain and Red Lion which was further along High Street to the south.

DB 2 July 2018

"Formerly School and Schoolmasters house. 1871"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147635 

Now a private house. 

DB 2 July 2018

"Without doubt, one of the best of all Lincolnshire churches" (Henry Thorold)

Mainly 14th century, the church is remarkable for its elegant spire and its many fine carvings.

The beautiful chancel, with its painted ceiling and lavish furnishings, date from Bodley's rebuilding in the late 19th century.

Frank Robinson, September 2014

"The spire although reduced in height in 1897 is 198 feet (60 m) high.

Parts of the church date back to about 1290 though most dates back to about the late 14th century"

"It was heavily restored by the Rector, Canon Frederick Heathcote Sutton and the architect George Frederick Bodley between 1874 and 1876"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Helen%27s_Church,_Brant_Broughton 

DB 2 July 2018

Interior view looking east.

Note the elaborate font cover, on the right hand side of the image, by T Garner 1889.

Excellent guide available :-

http://sthelensbrantbroughton.org.uk/a-short-guide/ 

DB 2 July 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

"Ornate C15 octagonal font"

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

Pulpit by Bodley, 1890.

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

DB 2 July 2018

DB 2 July 2018

On the south side of the church are two sundials of uncertain date, one in the angle of the buttresses at the south-east corner of the nave and the other between the south-east buttresses on the wall of the tower.

Mark Acton, 2008

A wall tablet in the church states that the churchyard cross was restored as a memorial to those killed in World War 1.

DB 2 July 2018

Wall tablet near the modern war memorial.

DB 2 July 2018

"modern war memorial in honour of the men of Brant Broughton and Stragglethorpe who lost their lives in the two World Wars. The work of Robert Kiddey, it was installed in 1950"

http://sthelensbrantbroughton.org.uk/a-short-guide/ 

DB 2 July 2018

Sign dated 2000.

DB 2 July 2018

This silver ring with a gold intaglio was discovered at Brant Broughton.

The intaglio shows the Roman god Vulcan, the god of fire, smithing and manufacture.

He is shown standing, wearing a tunic across one shoulder, with a long pair of tongs in his left hand and a hammer in his right, which he holds over an anvil.

This image is recognised on a growing number of ring intaglios in Lincolnshire, many of which appear to have been made in the same workshop, such is the consistency of their imagery.

It is possible that these rings represented good fortune for metalworkers, and were worn as apotropaic symbols, warding off accidents.

Finds from shrine sites, however, also suggest that they were placed in the ground as offerings, possibly even at places where metal ores were mined.

The deposition of such a ring might invoke Vulcan to ensure that the source of the ore continued to produce its valuable product.

Courtesy of Lincolnshire County Council, The Collection

"The first chapel in Mill Lane was built in 1812 or 1815 and was replaced by newer buildings in 1832 and again in 1858.

The large school was erected in 1852"

"The chapel closed in 2003 and the former chapel and school room have been converted to four residential units" 

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Wesleyan-chapel--Mill-Lane--Brant-Broughton/242488.record?pt=S 

DB 2 July 2018

"The first chapel in Mill Lane was built in 1812 or 1815 and was replaced by newer buildings in 1832 and again in 1858.

The large school was erected in 1852"

"The chapel closed in 2003 and the former chapel and school room have been converted to four residential units" 

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Wesleyan-chapel--Mill-Lane--Brant-Broughton/242488.record?pt=S 

July 2018

"The chapel was built in Maltkiln Lane in 1862. 

It is part of the Sleaford Wesleyan Reform Union Circuit.

The Wesleyan Reform Union has remained independent of the denominational unions of 1857, 1907 and 1932"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Brant-Broughton--Maltkiln-Lane-Chapel--Wesleyan-Reform-Union-/581833.record?pt=S 

DB 2 July 2018

View of the chapel from the south-west.

July 2018

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Lincoln Circuits Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson (Revised October 2000) it is stated that :-

"The Wesleyan Reform Union have a chapel in Maltkiln Lane. Erected In 1862 the interior was completely, restyled in 1940 and is still in use" 

Geoff Swain Collection 9 May 1994

Datestone over the chapel entrance.

July 2018