Swallow

Swallow, Holy Trinity

Holy Trinity church in Swallow lies in the Lincolnshire Wolds.

The tower is Norman in origin as is the west doorway, tower arch and a west window.

The north arcade and chancel arch are 13th century but the whole church was over-restored in 1868.

Mark Acton, 2008

Swallow, Holy Trinity, church, Norman, tower

Swallow, Holy Trinity

"There is no south aisle now, but traces of it and the Lady chapel built in the 13th century can be seen on the exterior of the south wall"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow,_Lincolnshire

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Swallow, Holy Trinity Church

Swallow, Holy Trinity

White's Directory 1872 reports :-

"The Church (Holy Trinity) is a small structure, chiefly in the Early English style of architecture, and consists of nave and square tower. The chancel was restored in 1868, at a cost of £350, defrayed by the rector. The living is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £7. 10s. 10d., and now at £450, in the incumbency of the Rev. Sir Chas. Macgregor, Bart., who is also rural dean, and has a good rectory house, built in 1865, at a cost (with site), of £1700, in lieu of the old house erected in 1834."

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Swallow, Holy Trinity Church

Swallow, Holy Trinity

Looking west along the north side of the church.

Kelly's Directory 1930 has :-

"The church of the Holy Trinity is an ancient edifice of stone, of Saxon or very Early Norman and Early English date, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle and a western tower containing one bell:

the chancel was rebuilt in 1868, partly on the old foundations:

in 1883 the church was thoroughly restored and a new north aisle added, at a cost of £1,175:

a stained window was also placed in the chancel by Miss Bingham, of Thorganby, in memory of the Farrow and Bingham families:

there is also a window erected in 1915 by his family in memory of the Rev. J. E. W. Loft, rector from 1880 to 1909:

there are 90 sittings.

The churchyard was extended in 1905.

The register dates from the year 1672. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £322, with residence, built in 1865, at a cost of £1,700, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1909 by the Rev. Arthur Henry Askey M.A. of St. Jobn's College, Cambridge, hon. C.F. and rural dean of Caistor."

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Swallow, Holy Trinity Church

Swallow, Holy Trinity

Looking east along the northside of the church.

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Swallow, Holy Trinity, Chancel

Looking east towards the sanctuary.

"The 13th-century chancel was largely rebuilt in 1868 at a cost of £350"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow,_Lincolnshire

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Swallow, Holy Trinity, Chancel

Looking north across the chancel towards the vestry doorway.

"C19 pointed double chamfered archway to organ recess and vestry with inner order supported by corbels and chamfered inter jambs. Small C19 arched doorway to east with chamfered surround, hoodmould, headlabelstops and plank door"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165346?section=official-list-entry

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Swallow, Holy Trinity Church, chancel

Swallow, Holy Trinity, Chancel

Looking west through the C13 chancel arch and towards the nave.

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Swallow, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Altar

A closer view of the altar.

C19 altar rail.

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Swallow, Holy Trinity Church, altar

Swallow, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Chair

"In Remembrance of The Revd George Holiwell B.D. formerly fellow of St Mary Magdalen College Oxford and 45 years Rector of this Parish"

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Swallow, Holy Trinity Church, chair

Swallow, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Column

"Chancel has fragmentary freestanding cluster of C12 columns with cushion capitals and C19 bases and plinth"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165346?section=official-list-entry

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Swallow, Holy Trinity Church, Column

Swallow, Holy Trinity, Chancel, East Window

"TO THE GLORY OG GOD & IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM THOMAS & JAMES FARROW FORMERLY OF SWALLOW THIS WINDOW WAS GIVEN BY THEIR NEPHEWS & NEICES"

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Swallow, Holy Trinity Church, Stained Glass Window

Swallow, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Memorial (Gordon)

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGIANA DIANA, THE BELOVED WIFE OF GEORGE WILLIAM GORDON, LL.B. OF JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. BORN 17TH SEPTEMBER 1825, DIED 18TH MAY 1855. HER REMAINS ARE INTERRED AT SCAMPTON, IN THIS COUNTY.

"IN THE SIGHT OF THE UNWISE THEY SEEMED TO DIE, AND THEIR DEPARTURE IS TAKEN FOR MISERY, AND THEIR GOING FROM US TO BE UTTER DESTRUCTION, BUT THEY ARE IN PEACE"

WISDOM. III_ 2.3."

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Swallow, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Memorial (Holiwell)

"SACRED to FANNY.J.HOLIWELL. obt. Augst 20th 1849 Aged 19 Years Requiescat in Pace."

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Swallow, Holy Trinity, Chancel, Memorial (Hyde)

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF ANNA MARIA, THE BELOVED WIFE OF SAMUEL HYDE, BORN NOV. 22.1812, WHO ENTERED INTO REST JAN. 19.1864.

ALSO OF SAMUEL HYDE, BORN SEP . 11.1804, WHO FELL ASLEEP MARCH 1.1878.

R.I.P."

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Swallow, Holy Trinity, Churchyard, War Memorial

"THEY DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918"

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/54390

"A war memorial commemorates three soldiers who died in the First World War: Lieutenant Cecil Walter Henry Askey (died 5 April 1918), Gunner Walter Day (died 25 September 1918) and Stoker Kerdon Wilkin (died 7 March 1916)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow,_Lincolnshire

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Swallow, Holy Trinity Churchyard, war memorial

Swallow, Holy Trinity, Nave

Looking east towards the C13 chancel arch and chancel of 1868.

"Early C13 north arcade of two bays with double chamfered pointed arches"

https://https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165346?section=official-list-entry

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Swallow, Holy Trinity, Nave

Looking north across the nave and into the north aisle.

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Swallow, Holy Trinity, Nave

"Plain semi-circular west respond supported by rectangular block with chipstar decoration"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165346?section=official-list-entry

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Swallow, Holy Trinity, Nave

Looking west towards the C12 font and C12 tower arch.

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Swallow, Holy Trinity, Nave, Font

"C12 drum front with six elliptical half moons at base"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165346?section=official-list-entry

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Swallow, Holy Trinity Church, font

Swallow, Holy Trinity, Nave, Lectern

"Late C19 lecturn"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165346?section=official-list-entry

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Swallow, Holy Trinity Church, lectern

Swallow, Holy Trinity, Nave, Memorial (Gibbons)

"SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF STEPHEN GIBBONS, BORN AUGUST 7TH 1811, DIED NOVR 3RD 1865, AGED 55. HE WAS FOR 15 YEARS A FAITHFUL STEWARD TO THE EARLS OF YARBOROUGH. HIS REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN THIS CHURCH YARD. THIS TRIBUTE OF RESPECT IS ERECTED BY CHARLES MAUDE WORSLEY, 3RD EARL OF YARBOROUCH.

FOR IF WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED AND ROSE AGAIN, EVEN SO THEM ALSO WHICH SLEEP IN JESUS WILL GOD BRING WITH HIM. I.THESS. IV 14"

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Swallow, Holy Trinity, Nave, Pulpit

"C19 ornate pink marble and ashlar pulpit"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165346?section=official-list-entry

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Swallow, Holy Trinity Church, pulpit

Swallow, Holy Trinity, Nave, Window

"To the Glory of God and in memory of James Edmund Wallis Loft M.A. R.D. Rector of this parish from 1880 to 1909.and Margaret Jane his wife, erected by their children"

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Swallow, Holy Trinity Church, Stained Glass Window

Swallow, Holy Trinity, North Aisle

Looking east.

"The north aisle was built during the church's restoration of 1883–84, when the old horse box pews, the gallery and the three-decker pulpit were removed"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow,_Lincolnshire

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Swallow, Holy Trinity, North Aisle

Looking west.

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Swallow, Holy Trinity, North Aisle, Memorial (Borman)

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF THOMAS JOHNSON BORMAN OF SWALLOW WHO SLEPT IN JESUS MAY 9TH 1881. THIS NORTH AISLE HAS BEEN ERRECTED BY HIS CHILDREN ... "

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Swallow, Holy Trinity, North Aisle, Memorial (Nicholson)

"Sacred to the memory of Anna Maria Nicholson ... "

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Swallow, Holy Trinity, Porch

"ornate C19 wooden porch with panelling, battlement decoration cusped barge boards and finial"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165346?section=official-list-entry

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Swallow, Holy Trinity Church, porch

Swallow, Holy Trinity, Tower

"Two stage west tower with early C12 lower stage with plinth and round headed west door with large impost blocks, C19 tympanum with oculus flanked by beaded tendrils and C20 plank door. Small round headed light above. C12 buttresses with two C19 setoffs visible where tower meets nave on north and south Bellchamber stage of 1868 with moulded stringcourse and bellchamber openings on all four sides each consisting of a single round headed opening flanked by plain shafts with cushion capitals and, on west and east bellopenings, chevron decoration. Clasping corner pilasters above stringcourse. Corbel table above and pyramidal aisle roof with weather vane"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165346?section=official-list-entry

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Swallow, Holy Trinity, Tower Arch

"C12 interior tower arch with round head and plain impost blocks"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165346?section=official-list-entry

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Swallow, Holy Trinity Church, tower arch

Swallow, Holy Trinity, Tower, Doorway

"C19 tympanum with oculus flanked by beaded tendrils and C20 plank door"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165346?section=official-list-entry

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Swallow, Holy Trinity Church, doorway

Swallow, Holy Trinity, Tower, Tiles

Decorative tiles beneath the tower arch and adjacent to the font.

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Swallow, Holy Trinity Church, tiles

Swallow, School / Village Hall

Former School now the Village Hall.

White's Directory has "Here is a Parochial School, built in 1856, by the late Earl of Yarborough, which is attended by about 45 children".

"The school was closed in May 1968 and the children transferred to Caistor Primary School ... After the school closed the ownership of the building reverted to Lord Yarborough, and in 1969 he sold it to the village for a nominal £150 on condition that it would be returned to him if it could not be maintained as a village hall for twenty-one years"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow,_Lincolnshire

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Swallow, Village Hall, school

Swallow, The Swallow

"The village pub is the Swallow Inn. It was preceded by the White Hart, which closed in 1953"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow,_Lincolnshire

The White Hart was around 100m further east on the other side of a former chalk pit.

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The Swallow, Public House