Watery Lane in Little Cawthorpe is the site of a ford which gives the village pub, the Royal Oak, its nickname 'the Splash'.

Undated postcard by Valentine's.

St Helen's church stands on a significant mound; there is a stiff climb up from the south.

April 2015

Designed by R J Withers in 1860, St Helen's was considered a "model church for parishes of modest means".

Built of red brick with black brick decoration  the building has lancet and traceried windows, an overhanging slate roof and a western bellcote and spire.

It is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

April 2015

Red bricks laid in Flemish bond are used in the construction of St Helen's.

Decoration is added in the bands of black bricks, the ridge tiles (some remain), the panel of hung tiles below the bellcote, and the cast iron finials.

April 2015

St Helen's has attractive decoration in black brick round doorways and windows.

At the west end is the bellcote, with star shaped bell openings and a slate-hung broach spire.

April 2015

The old boiler in the vestry at St Helen's is "BRYNE No.1A".

April 2015

This small decorated boot scraper is alongside the south entrance to the church.

April 2015

The brick chancel arch springs from marble shafts with ornate carved capitals.

April 2015

This Victorian composition in colourful glass depicts Christ's controversial healing the paralytic man of Capernaum who has been lowered through an opening in the roof of the building created by his friends. The critical 'teachers of the law' are seen standing to the right. (Mark 2, vv.1-5). 

April 2015

The six-pointed star is in the tracery of the south window of the chancel.

The text I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE is a quotation from the incident related in the Book of John Chapter 11 verse 25.

Jesus offers these words in comfort to the sisters Martha and Mary whose brother Lazarus has died, prior to bringing Lazarus back to life.

April 2015 

This detail is in the east window of the vestry.

It shows a pair of dividers with a monogram R in blue, J in clear glass and W in green. This represents the architect of the building Robert Jewell Withers

https://manchestervictorianarchitects.org.uk/architects/robert-jewell-withers

April 2015

In St Helen’s churchyard is this five-foot marble Latin cross on a stepped base, paid for by parishioners and unveiled on 7 September 1919.

It originally bore lead letters but following loss of a number of those the parish council had the monument cleaned and restored with painted incised letters.

The photograph shows the south face. On the eastern face are commemorated three brothers who gave their lives in the Second World War:

JOHN/ LANWARNE/ CRIBB/ LT. F.A.A. 1942

HENRY/ LANWARNE/ CRIBB/ W.O. R.A.F. 1944

OWEN/ LANWARNE/ CRIBB/ AIR GUNNER 1944

Their sister Mary married in 1946 and continued to live opposite in the Old Parsonage, Little Cawthorpe, until her death in 1975 at the age of 70. There is a memorial plaque to her in St Helen’s church.

https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/158651 

Jean Howard, March 2021