These earthworks are thought to be the remains of the Norman Castle which took advantage of a naturally defensive site which was improved by the building of ditches and a Motte and Bailey.

Further developments including an outer Bailey have made this site complex and difficult to interpret.

"Public house. C17, raised and altered mid C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165805 

This building was previously known as the Three Tuns. 

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 lists two public houses in the village :-

Doly Edmund, vict. Three Tuns

Wade Caroline, vict. Castle 

Also

Wing John, mason and beerhouse

Woods Joseph, beerhouse

When the Castle Inn, which was next to the site of the castle, burnt down in 1976 the Three Tuns was renamed.

https://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=2617 

DB 6 April 2019

Not mentioned in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1937 so presumably of more recent origin.

DB 6 April 2019

This brick-built Lime Kiln is the survivor of ten kilns built in a limestone quarry adjacent to the Bourne to Saxby Railway which was opened shortly after the railway was finished in 1893.

It is 7m high and has a single charging hole accessible from the top of the bank which it is built into.

The quarry is believed to have closed in 1960 and the kiln is one of very few surviving in Lincolnshire.

See: Stewart Squires, Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 45 (2010), pp 36-39.

Former beer house shown on the 25 inch OS Map published 1888.

Mentioned in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1937 :-

"New Inn (Mrs. Annie S. Wing)" 

Now a private house. 

DB 6 April 2019

Kelly's Directory 1930 reports :-

"The church of St. James, situated on an eminence in the centre of the village, is an ancient edifice of stone, dating from about 1115; the first mention of the church of Castle Bytham was by Stephen, Earl of Albemarle, who gave it to the French monastery;

it consists of chancel, nave, north aisle, transepts, south porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 3 bells:

the chancel retains a good Norman doorway with beakhead ornament: on the north side is a canopied tomb, a fine specimen of curvilinear work with a crocketed ogee canopy, probably of about 1315-1360, to commemorate one of the " Colviles" family, and on the south a piscina:

the church was restored in 1857, when the south transept, which had been destroyed, was rebuilt, and again in 1900 at a cost of £1,500:

there are 280 sittings"

DB 31 March 2024

The unusually long chancel of St James' church was rebuilt in the late fourteenth century. The windows in this south elevation are of the Decorated period.

The church was extensively restored by C H Fowler in 1898-1900.

March 2017

The unbuttressed tower is in Early English style.

The south transept was rebuilt in 1857.

March 2017

"The war memorial is located in the churchyard of the Grade I listed St James's Church which dates to the late C12.

The sIate tablet is inscribed with the names of the men of the parish who lost their lives in the Second World War, although the memorial itself appears to be older and was possibly originally erected after the First World War"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1396595 

DB 6 April 2019

Label stop or grotesque.

March 2017

Sundial high on the south face of the tower.

March 2017

Viewed from the west. 

"3 stage early C13 tower has plinth, chamfered string courses, embattled parapet with cusped lozenge frieze and gargoyles.

Belfry stage has paired pointed lights with round headed shafted surround"

"In the west wall a blocked narrow opening and a lancet to each stage and a blank circular opening with octagonal ashlar surround"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360095 

DB 31 March 2024

"GV II Telephone kiosk. Type K6. Designed 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Made by various contractors. Cast iron. Square kiosk with domed roof. Unperforated crowns to top panels and margin glazing to windows and door"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1240798?section=official-list-entry 

DB 31 March 2024