Looking down High Street towards the Royal Oak. The pub is still open for business (as at November 2024). The shop/post office on the right is no more.

Undated postcard by Raphael Tuck. 

A house built in 1750 and modified in the twentieth century.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

A second view of Hillside House.

"Farmhouse, adjacent barn and byre. 1750 with C20 alterations"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165142?section=official-list-entry 

DB 20 June 2024

Snitterby lies 14 miles north of Lincoln & 8 miles south of Brigg. Its population in 2011 was 245.

Undated postcard by Raphael Tuck. 

A late eighteenth-century house.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

The Wesleyan Chapel in Chapel Lane was built in 1840 and is now extended and converted into a dwelling.

July 2021 

The original chapel building is the section to the left.

July 2021 

Moor Road runs easterly from the junction with High Street.

Undated postcard by Raphael Tuck.

Mentioned in White's Directory 1872 "Wilkinson John, farmer and victualler, Royal Oak"

DB 27 December 2020

Former school which closed in 1932. Now the village hall.

DB 20 June 2024

Best kept village plaques mounted outside the village hall. 

"A best kept village is a village that has won one of the annual county competitions in the United Kingdom for its tidiness, appropriateness, and typicality. The competitions have been nationally organized by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) since the early 1970s."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_kept_village#:~:text=A%20best%20kept%20village%20is,CPRE)%20since%20the%20early%201970s. 

DB 20 June 2024

St Nicholas's church was rebuilt in 1866 by James Fowler and comprises a western tower, nave and apse built in rock-faced limestone.

May 2012

Kelly's Directory 1930 reports :-

"The church of St. Nicholas, erected on the site of an older structure in 1780, at the meagre cost of £219, was rebuilt in 1866-7 at a cost of £1,000, and is now a building of stone and brick, in the Early Decorated style, from plans by Mr. James Fowler, architect, of Louth, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower with four pinnacles, completed in 1894 at a cost of £220, and containing one bell and a clock with two dials placed in April, 1899, at a cost of nearly £70, in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria:

the reredos is of Caen stone and alabaster, and the font is supported on eight shafts of serpentine marble:

the lectern, communion table and other furniture were presented to the church:

the silver chalice and paten date from 1569:

the stained east window was placed by the rector as a memorial to his wife:

the interior was entirely redecorated at a cost of £150 in 1920; there are sittings for 180 persons.

The separate register of this parish dates only from the year 1858; the earlier registers are included in those of Waddingham.

The living is a rectory, annexed to that of Waddingham, joint net yearly value £963, with residence, in the gift of the Crown, and held since 1928 by the Rev. Robert Woods Wortley B.A. of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, hon. C.F. who resides at Waddingham"

DB 20 June 2024

The Post Office Directory 1861 describing the previous church on this site has "The church is a small building, with tower and 1 bell, dedicated to St. Nicholas. The living is a perpetual curacy".

Also "St. Nicholas Church, Rev. Richard Morey, B.A. incumbent". Richard Morey was the first resident rector of Snitterby. 

DB 20 June 2024

Looking west, through the chancel arch, and into the nave.

DB 20 June 2024

Looking east towards the altar.

All fittings C19. 

DB 20 June 2024

A corbel and shaft close to the north side of the chancel arch, showing the variety of material and decoration used by Fowler here.

May 2012

A depiction of the crucifixion.

DB 20 June 2024

"This East Window is erected to the Glory of GOD and in loving memory of ALVIRA the devoted and lamented wife of The Rev. Henry Usher, M.A. Rector of this Parish. Born at Holbeach July 18, 1819. Died at Snitterby November 25, 1890. Interred at Saltfleetby. JESU MERCY."

DB 20 June 2024

C19 reredos. Kelly's Directory 1930 comments "the reredos is of Caen stone and alabaster".

DB 20 June 2024

Looking east up to the apsidal ending.

The church's history leaflet mentions a new roof in 1994 but that's presumably the external stone slate roof.

DB 20 June 2024

"The brick and stone cancellae screen wall has a built in ashlar and marble lectern"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165208?section=official-list-entry 

DB 20 June 2024

The interior of St Nicholas's is red-brick with ashlar and bands of black brick decoration - in typical Fowler style.

May 2012

Looking north across the chancel and into the vestry.

DB 20 June 2024

Similar decorative elements on the east and west sides of the vestry arch.

DB 20 June 2024

Entrance at the southwest corner of the churchyard.

DB 20 June 2024

"In Memory of THE REV. RICHARD MOREY, B.A. FOR MANY YEARS CURATE OF WADDINGHAM & SNITTERBY, AND FIRST RESIDENT RECTOR OF SNITTERBY. DIED NOV. 13. 1861. AGED 54."

DB 20 June 2024

"ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918."

Unveiled 12 June 1920.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/54381 

DB 20 June 2024

Looking west to the font and tower arch.

DB 20 June 2024

Looking east towards the chancel.

All fittings C19. 

DB 20 June 2024

Looking east towards the chancel.

"the inside walls are in red brick with ashlar and black brick horizontal bands. The chancel and other arches have vary-coloured brick voussoirs"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165208?section=official-list-entry 

DB 20 June 2024

Text above the south porch inner doorway :-

"THIS IS THE GATE OF HEAVEN" 

DB 20 June 2024

The makers plate reads "Cousans, Sons & Co, City Organ Works Lincoln." The Church's History Leaflet states "The Organ was built by Mr. T.H. Nicholson of Lincoln."

DB 20 June 2024

C19 pulpit.

DB 20 June 2024

Looking up to the roof. The church's history leaflet mentions a new roof in 1994 but that's presumably the external stone slate roof.

DB 20 June 2024

"The gabled south porch has a moulded doorway in the Early English style"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165208?section=official-list-entry 

DB 20 June 2024

"Although largely rebuilt in C19 the lower 2 stages of the tower are in coursed limestone rubble and appear to be in medieval masonry. The 3 stage tower with plinth and moulded string course rises to battlemented parapet with angle pinnacles"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165208?section=official-list-entry 

DB 20 June 2024

Text above the arch appropriate to the baptistry within. 

"EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD"

DB 20 June 2024

C19 font at the base of the tower.

Kelly's Directory 1930 comments "the font is supported on eight shafts of serpentine marble".

DB 20 June 2024

A second view of the font.

DB 20 June 2024

"The Solemn Dedication OF THE REBUILT FALLEN TOWER OF SNITTERBY PARISH CHURCH To the Glory of God, WILL TAKE PLACE On TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30th, 1894, Divine Service will commence at 2-30 p.m. The SERMON will be preached by THE LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN

There will also be Divine Service in the Evening at 6-30. The SERMON will be preached by the Rev. J. E. Swithinbank, M.A., RECTOR OF SALTFLEETBY.

The offertory after each Service will be devoted to the TOWER BUILDING FUND. 

After the Afternoon Service the unsold Articles of the Bazaar will be exhibited for sale at the Rectory.

M. H. SMITH, Printer, Bookseller, Stationer, &c., Kirton-in-Lindsey" 

DB 20 June 2024

Stair turret on the south side of the tower.

DB 20 June 2024

Text at the bottom of the window reads "The window above was designed and installed by Lincolnshire Stained Glass Studio to celebrate the second Millennium of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ".

DB 20 June 2024

Stained glass celebrating the second millennium.

DB 20 June 2024

Telephone kiosk - K6 type designed in 1935  by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

Off High Street near OS Grid Ref: SK 9842 9473.

No longer in use. 

DB 20 June 2024

Designed by James Fowler of Louth and built in 1859.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011