The impressive and well-maintained farmyard stands immediately north of a T-junction south-west of the main village.

Pevsner describes this as ‘an octagonal building with two tiers of sunk round-arched panels. It was built in 1855 as a horse-gin, for pumping water to a tank above to supply the farmyard. Pigeon-loft over.’

The 1855 datestone can be seen in the first floor arch above the door. The building is Grade II listed: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1103499?section=official-list-entry 

Jean Howard, August 2023

The Humber is actually eight miles away.

St Andrew's in Irby-on-Humber was thoroughly restored by James Fowler of Louth in 1883.

The nave arcades are Norman and the south doorway dates from about 1200.

Mark Acton, 2015

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "The church of St. Andrew is a small but ancient fabric of stone, in the Norman, Early English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north and south aisles, south porch and a low western tower, with parapet, containing a clock and 3 bells:

The south aisle retains a piscina. The font is Norman; and near the tower are two ancient slabs inscribed to members of the Malet family and dated 1493.

The church has four stained glass windows, one of those in the chancel being a memorial to the late Rev. G. S. Robinson B.A. rector 1842-1880:

The church, which has 120 sittings, was restored and other repairs effected in 1883, at a total cost of £1,200.

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View of the church from the east-northeast.

The ironstone building is Grade I listed: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1161130?section=official-list-entry

Jean Howard, August 2023

The main body of the church, seen here from the north, has a slate roof, the north aisle of lead.

The single window on the north aisle has no matching pair alongside, thus giving this elevation an unbalanced appearance. 

Jean Howard, August 2023

Viewed from the northwest.

The tower, built in the thirteenth or fourteenth century, is of two stages with a partly eroded string course between.

The ashlar limestone parapet is later and probably belongs to Fowler’s restoration in the nineteenth century. 

Jean Howard, August 2023

From this angle (east-south-east) the line of the tower string course seems to indicate an earlier higher nave roof.

The windows of the south aisle are all thought to be C19. 

Jean Howard, August 2023

This is the view from the north-east.

The 1883 restoration by James Fowler of Louth involved the complete rebuilding of the chancel.

The removal of the clerestory possibly took place during a restoration of 1794 when it is thought the tracery of the clerestory windows was re-used as the belfry windows.

Jean Howard, August 2023

Recently planted trees obscure this view from the west.

Nonetheless, the Victorian tracery of the two aisles’ west windows is quite handsome and may reflect the designs that were there previously.

The south porch, which can just be seen, is thirteenth-century but is clearly an addition as the doorway of the inner south door bears a mass dial. 

Jean Howard, August 2023