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Great Carlton
 
Great Carlton, Forge
Great Carlton, Forge
Great Carlton, Forge

This building, a former forge, is marked on the 1888 25” Ordnance Survey map as 'The Smithy'.

Named ‘The Forge’, it now serves as a garage for a house to the right of this photograph.

Jean Howard, November 2020

Great Carlton, Forge, smithy
Great Carlton, Forge
Great Carlton, Forge
Great Carlton, Forge
A late eighteenth-century house with a later cat-slide at the rear. The garage for this house, situated to the left, is the former forge or smithy.
The house is Listed Grade II. see: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063018?section=official-list-entry 
 
Jean Howard, November 2020
Great Carlton, The Forge
Great Carlton, School
Great Carlton, School
Great Carlton, School

Sir Edward Smith’s Free School was built on this site in 1716 for Great Carlton, Little Carlton and Castle Carlton.

The building in this photograph was erected in 1838 on the same site in what is called Chapel Lane.

It served as a school until 1976, but has now been converted to residential use.

Jean Howard, January 2024

Great Carlton, School, Sir Edward Smith
Great Carlton, School
Great Carlton, School
Great Carlton, School

A second view of Great Carlton's former village school.

Jean Howard, January 2024 


Great Carlton, School
Great Carlton, School, Head Teachers
Great Carlton, School, Head Teachers
Great Carlton, School, Head Teachers
This list of the headteachers of the village school is displayed in the church of St John the Baptist.
 
It was saved when the school closed in 1976.
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, school
Great Carlton, St John Baptist
Great Carlton, St John Baptist
Great Carlton, St John Baptist

St John the Baptist at Great Carlton has a 15th century greenstone tower.

James Fowler of Louth rebuilt the rest of the church in 1861, using the style of circa 1300.

The handsome marble and mosaic reredos dates from 1890.

September 2012

Great Carlton, St John Baptist, James Fowler, reredos
Great Carlton, St John Baptist
Great Carlton, St John Baptist
Great Carlton, St John Baptist

This watercolour shows the church prior to Fowler’s restoration. It reveals an almost identical layout and roofscape with the main alteration being the window designs of nave, chancel and clerestorey.

Jean Howard 2 June 2021

Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, image, watercolour
Great Carlton, St John Baptist
Great Carlton, St John Baptist
Great Carlton, St John Baptist
This view of the church from the north shows the iron ridge-cresting along the nave, chancel and north aisle roofs; the bands of plain and fish-scale slate on the chancel; and the octagonal vestry with its lancet windows and hipped chimney. 
 
Jean Howard, June 2021
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, image
Great Carlton, St John Baptist
Great Carlton, St John Baptist
Great Carlton, St John Baptist
Having entered the churchyard from the south via the lychgate, the first view of the church is very attractive.

The exterior was greatly restored 1860/1 under James Fowler with lancet windows to the nave and cusped triangular windows in the clerestory.
 
Jean Howard, May 2021
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, James Fowler
Great Carlton, St John Baptist
Great Carlton, St John Baptist
Great Carlton, St John Baptist
Great Carlton St John the Baptist from the south-east
 
This view reveals the cresting to the roof of the south porch.
 
Jean Howard 2 June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, image
Great Carlton, St John Baptist Church, Chandelier
Great Carlton, St John Baptist Church, Chandelier
Great Carlton, St John Baptist Church, Chandelier
The chancel chandelier was made by a local blacksmith and was electrified in 1954 in memory of Mrs Florence Speed. 
 
Jean Howard, January 2024
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, chandelier, Florence Speed
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Corbel
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Corbel
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Corbel

This handsome corbel is on the south of the chancel arch close to the pulpit and is thought to depict Georgina Elizabeth Pretyman, Frederic Pretyman’s wife.

Jean Howard, January 2024

Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, corbel, Pretyman
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Corbel & Plaque
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Corbel & Plaque
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Corbel & Plaque

This handsome corbel is on the north of the chancel arch close to the organ and is thought to depict Revd Frederic Pretyman. The plaque is in memory of Edith Smith who was organist for 40 years.

Jean Howard, June 2021

Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, corbel, Pretyman, Edith Smith
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Cross
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Cross
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Cross

This is the head of an early churchyard cross which shows the crucifixion of Christ. The other face depicts a female saint.

The fragment was brought to this church from St Edith’s church, Little Carlton and is thought to have originated from Castle Carlton church which was demolished in 1902.

Sadly this item was stolen in August 2023.

Jean Howard, June 2021

Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, image, cross
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, East Window
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, East Window
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, East Window

The east window was designed by Powells of Whitefriars in 1891.

The text reads: ‘As in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive’.

The window was paid for by subscriptions to appropriately mark the contribution to the church and local life of Canon Pretyman who had retired after 41 years service.

Jean Howard, June 2021

Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, stained glass window, Canon Pretyman, Powell, Whitefriars
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Font
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Font
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Font

The font is an unusual and beautiful design.

The bowl is square in cross section but with a fluted underside, like barrels side by side.

The four faces each have an incised circular botanical design, one of passion flowers.

It is supported on a short broad plain column with fleurs de lys spilling over the moulding onto the square plinth.

Jean Howard, June 2021

Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, font
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, interior
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, interior
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, interior
The church depicted here before restoration had box pews, a high clerk’s desk to the north and a pulpit with extravagant staircase to the south. A much lower arch led into the chancel.
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, image
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Lectern
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Lectern
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Lectern
The lectern is another handsome piece with metal work echoing the design of the sanctuary rail.
 
Jean Howard, January 2024
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, lectern
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Lychgate
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Lychgate
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Lychgate
The fine oak and slate lychgate was donated in 1871 by the ever beneficent Canon Frederic Pretyman.
 
Looking southwards from the churchyard one can see the lovely avenue of trees leading from the main road to the church.
 
This was described in Mee’s King’s England of 1949 as ‘an approach unsurpassed in all Lincolnshire’.
 
Jean Howard, January 2024 
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, lychgate
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Lychgate
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Lychgate
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Lychgate
The fine oak and slate lychgate was donated in 1871 by the ever beneficent Canon Frederic Pretyman

The lychgate is an unusual design with a hipped roof below the exposed ridge.
 
Jean Howard, January 2024
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, lychgate
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
Monument to Frederic Pretyman.
 
On the north wall of the chancel are two monuments to Frederic Pretyman and his wife. Frederic Pretyman was a Canon of Lincoln Cathedral, grandson of Bishop George Pretyman Tomline and father of Rt Hon Ernest George Pretyman who developed the port of Felixstowe.
 
This is a very lovely memorial to an industrious cleric, the text now becoming quite hard to decipher. It reads :-
 
"IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ FREDERIC PRETYMAN BD/ BORN OCT 21st 1819 DIED FEB 14th 1905/ DURING HIS 35 YEARS RESIDENCE/ IN GREAT CARLTON HE EVER STROVE TO ACT/ UP TO HIS HIGH IDEAL OF DUTY, AND WAS/ BELOVED AND REVERED BY ALL THOSE AMONGST/ WHOM HE LIVED AND WORKED./ THE LINCOLNSHIRE CONVALESCENT HOME/ AT MABLETHORPE, THE ‘WELCOME’ AT LOUTH/ AND THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN AT FELIXSTOWE/ REMAIN WITH OTHER GOOD WORKS AS LASTING/ MEMORIALS OF HIS WISE AND EARNEST EFFORTS/ FOR THE GOOD OF OTHERS./ THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY HIS ONLY SURVIVING SON ERNEST GEORGE PRETYMAN"
 
A full-length portrait of Canon Pretyman is in the collection at the Usher Gallery and can be viewed at:
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/reverend-canon-frederic-pretyman-18201905-81965
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, monument, Frederic Pretyman
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Monument (Pretyman)
On the north wall of the chancel are two monuments to Frederic Pretyman and his wife. This is the  more ornate monument for Frederic Pretyman’s wife.
 
‘To the beloved memory of Georgina Elizabeth Pretyman wife of the Revd Frederic Pretyman BD/ Rector of Great Carlton and/ daughter of Edward Knight Esq/ of Chawton House Hampshire./ To the same fatherly hand that dealt the blow/ her bereaved husband would ascribe the gift of that/ gentle happy holy disposition which so won the/ hearts of all who knew her, and made her such an/ inestimable treasure to himself./ But in the wreck of his own earthly joys he has this/ assured consolation, that for her to depart and to be/ with Christ is far better./ She died May 26th 1864 after giving birth/ to a son who lived only a few hours.’
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, monument, Georgina Elizabeth Pretyman
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Nave
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Nave
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Nave
The nave was completely re-seated in the nineteenth century restoration.
 
Jean Howard, June 2021 
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Nave
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Nave
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Nave
The brick patterns around the tower arch, seen in this view looking west, show Fowler’s love of brickwork.
 
Jean Howard, June 2021 
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church,
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, North Arcade
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, North Arcade
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, North Arcade
This view of the north wall of the nave shows the clerestory, the courses of contrasting masonry, the band of quotations in encaustic tile and the lozenges of tiles set between the arches.
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, clerestory
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Organ
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Organ
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Organ
The organ was installed in 1875. The case was decorated by Canon Sutton of Brant Broughton in the style of Bodley.
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, organ
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Organ
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Organ
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Organ
The decoration of the organ case continues around the western face of the instrument.
The frontal chest can also be seen in this view.
 
Jean Howard  2 June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, organ
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Portrait
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Portrait
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Portrait
An oil portrait of Canon Pretyman hangs near the font.
 
Much of this fine church was largely achieved through his generosity, repairing the exterior in 1860 at a cost of £1700; then the interior in 1880, again at his expense.
 
Jean Howard, January 2024
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, Pretyman
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Pulpit
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Pulpit
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Pulpit
The body of the pulpit is in panels of intricately carved wood set on a brick support with inset tiles.
 
The carving was done by a Mrs Bromley and the whole was commissioned as a memorial to Revd George Pretyman.
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, pulpit, Bromley
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Reredos
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Reredos
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Reredos
The reredos shows the Last Supper in mosaic and gilt with an alabaster frame.
 
It includes only eleven disciples, apparently omitting Judas Iscariot. Two of those depicted have no facial hair and are of a quite feminine appearance.
 
It was designed by Powells of Whitefriars and was made in 1890. The design extends beyond the central illustration to occupy the whole width of the wall. 
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, reredos, Powell's Whitefriars
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Reredos
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Reredos
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Reredos
Reredos dedication. The reredos was erected by Revd Pretyman’s sister and brother-in-law in memory of their son who died aged 31.
 
THIS REREDOS WAS ERECTED BY/ W HAMILTON YATMAN ESQ OF HIGHGROVE TETBURY AND ELIZABETH TOWER HIS WIFE SISTER OF THE/ REVEREND FREDERIC PRETYMAN RECTOR OF GREAT CARLTON./ TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE BELOVED MEMORY OF/ THEIR ONLY SON WILLIAM FREDERIC HAMILTON YATMAN/ LATE CAPTAIN 3RD DRAGOON GUARDS/ WHO DIED OCT’R 30TH 1884/ NOT GONE FROM MEMORY, NOT GONE FROM LOVE,/ BUT GONE TO OUR FATHER’S HOME ABOVE.
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, reredos, Fred Pretyman, Hamilton Yatman, Elizabeth Tower
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Sanctuary
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Sanctuary
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Sanctuary
The sanctuary has a richly tiled floor beneath the altar. Gilded vine leaves adorn the sanctuary rail.
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, sanctuary
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Tower
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Tower
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Tower
On the south wall of the tower are late fourteenth century inscriptions recording the names of donors.
 
These are a very rare survival. One is said to read: ‘For Robert Schadworth saul ye pray Who for yis fote makying did pay.
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, tower, Robert Schadworth
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Tower
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Tower
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, Tower
The restoration of 1860-1 by James Fowler included the partial reconstruction of the fourteenth century tower.
 
He also lined the tower interior with red and yellow brick and stone.
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, tower
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, War Memorial
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, War Memorial
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, War Memorial
This handsome wooden War Memorial listing those from Great Carlton who were killed in the First World War is displayed in the tower of the church.
 
The painting shows a dying soldier in uniform touching the feet of Christ.
 
See: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/268195/ 
 
Jean Howard, June 2021 
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, war memorial
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, War Memorials
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, War Memorials
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, War Memorials
This brass plaque has been moved from St Edith’s church, Little Carlton prior to demolition of the church.
 
Beneath it is another brass plaque to Bernard Stephen Lyons RAF who died on February 2 1945.
 
Jean Howard, June 2021
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, war memorial, Bernard Lyons
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, West Window
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, West Window
Great Carlton, St John Baptist, West Window
The west window in the tower depicts Saints Peter and Paul. It was made by Powells of Whitefriars and is in memory of Revd George Pretyman, the elder brother of Frederic and his predecessor here as incumbent, who died in a shooting accident.
 
The dedication along the lower edge reads: ‘To the Glory of God and to the Blessed Memory of the Revd George Pretyman who died April 6th 1850.’
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Saint John Baptist Church, west window
Great Carlton, The Hall
Great Carlton, The Hall
Great Carlton, The Hall
The Hall is of two distinct periods: to the right (east) the three bay three storey part dates from the mid eighteenth century and has a gazebo on the top floor to view ships entering the Humber.
 
To the left is an early seventeenth-century wing with Venetian windows, the upper floor raised in mid-eighteenth century.
 
The Hall is listed Grade II; see:
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359973?section=official-list-entry
 
Jean Howard, June 2021  
Great Carlton, Hall
Great Carlton, Village Hall
Great Carlton, Village Hall
Great Carlton, Village Hall

The Church Institute has photographs of all those from the village who gave their lives in the First World War.

For Remembrance Sunday 2020 a display of poppies attached to net was hung from the gable end of the building and fastened along the fence.

Jean Howard, November 2020

Great Carlton, Church Institute, Remembrance
Great Carlton, Village Hall
Great Carlton, Village Hall
Great Carlton, Village Hall
Originally built by Revd Canon Pretyman as the Church Institute in 1902 at a cost of ‘about £350’, the building was refurbished as a Millennial project and is used as a social club and venue for many different events.
 
Jean Howard, November 2020 
Great Carlton, Village Hall, Church Institute
Great Carlton, Village Hall
Great Carlton, Village Hall
Great Carlton, Village Hall
Great Carlton Village Hall plaque
The drape with poppies is in place as the hall had been decorated for Armistice Sunday 2020 and display boards erected with details of those who died.
 
Jean Howard  8 November 2020
Great Carlton, Village Hall, Church Institute
Great Carlton, Village Sign
Great Carlton, Village Sign
Great Carlton, Village Sign
This decorative name board was made for the village in 2000 by local man Albert King.
 
Jean Howard, November 2020 
Great Carlton, Village Sign, Albert King
Great Carlton, Village Sign 
Great Carlton, Village Sign 
Great Carlton, Village Sign 
The village sign depicts stems of wheat; the village forge with the blacksmith shoeing a horse, tools at his feet and hanging on the wall behind; in the background the avenue leading to the church; and in the foreground a farm cart.
 
Jean Howard, November 2020  
Great Carlton, Village Sign
Great Carlton, War Memorial
Great Carlton, War Memorial
Great Carlton, War Memorial
The War Memorial was made by Mawer Bros of Louth and unveiled in 1920. It is in the form of a small Celtic wheel cross above a shaft decorated with Celtic tracery.
 
The memorial originally stood outside the Village Hall but was moved to the present site at the junction of Main Road and Glebe Road in 2000. It is intended to move it forward a couple of feet to allow a better view of the names on the back face.
 
It is listed Grade II; see:
 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1487236?section=official-list-entry

See: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/208761 
and: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/20400 
 
Jean Howard, November 2020  
Great Carlton, war memorial, Mawer Bros,
Great Carlton, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Great Carlton, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Great Carlton, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

The chapel stands in a bend in Chapel Lane. It was built in 1869 as the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.

The end and side elevation are nicely detailed with polychromatic brickwork.

Jean Howard, November 2020

Great Carlton, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Great Carlton, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Great Carlton, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Great Carlton, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

The section of the building nearer to camera is an extension added as a Sunday School in May 1957.

Jean Howard, November 2020

Great Carlton, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel