Former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel & Sunday School now a private house.

Mentioned in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 "In Timberland Dales on the Witham bank is a Wesleyan chapel"

DB 26 February 2020

Chapel pictured following closure but prior to its conversion into a house. 

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Coningsby Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson September 1997 (Revised July 1998) it is stated that :-

"The first chapel was erected in 1837 and the foundation stone for a second chapel, on the same site, was laid on the 20.6.1901.

The new chapel was opened on the 20.11.1901 and it closed in March 1993.

It was sold in October 1994 and converted into a house"

Geoff Swain Collection 24 June 1994

Timberland lies 9 miles north-east of Sleaford. It is close to the Roman-built Car Dyke.

Scopwick and Timberland railway station on the Lincoln-Sleaford line opened in 1882 and closed in 1955.

John William Houldershaw was the proprietor of the grocer's shop on the right of this scene which dates from the inter-war period.

Located just off Timberland Drove at National Grid Reference TF141590.

"IN MEMORY OF THE CREW OF JB534 ZN-K, 106 SQN, RAF METHERINGHAM.

AT 17.20 HOURS ON THE 15TH FEBRUARY 1944, LANCASTER JB534 ZN-K TOOK OFF FROM RAF METHERINGHAM, DESTINATION BERLIN. 

SEVEN HOURS LATER, AFTER SAFELY RUNNING THE GAUNTLET OF FORMIDABLE GERMAN DEFENCES, ZN-K WAS IN THE CIRCUIT WAITING TO LAND.

IN AVOIDING A COLLISION WITH ANOTHER LANCASTER, CONTROL WAS LOST RESULTING IN THE AIRCRAFT CRASHING IN THE ADJACENT FIELD.

FIVE CREW DIED AND TWO WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED"

DB 3 September 2020

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 mentions the manor house

"Bembridge Harry, farmer, Manor ho"

A symbol next to the entry indicates that the farm was 150 acres or over.

DB 22 May 2018

The Penny Farthing's website gives little historical information.

https://www.thepennyfarthinginn.co.uk/about-us/ 

Penny Farthing not marked on older Ordnance Survey maps but the Houghton Arms, Main Street is shown. 

The Houghton Arms was named after Lord Houghton who was lord of the manor of Timberland and a principal landowner. Houghton Arms now closed and has been converted into a private house.

DB 22 May 2018

"The Timberland Primitive Methodist chapel opened in 1878 and closed in 1940"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Timberland--Church-Lane-Chapel--Primitive-Methodist-/622504.record?pt=S 

Now a private house. 

April 2018

 "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by  Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states :-

"Preaching commenced in 1820 and the foundation stone of the chapel in Church Lane was laid on the 30.4.1878.

The last service was held on the 7.7.1940 and the chapel is now in commercial use by "Timberland Art & Design""

Geoff Swain Collection 24 June 1994

The date stone reads "1878 PRIMITIVE METHODIST".

Geoff Swain Collection 24 June 1994

"The Timberland and Thorpe fens cover an area of 2,850 acres (11.5 km2) and were enclosed in 1785.

An Act of Parliament obtained in 1839 authorised drainage, and the first Timberland pumping station was constructed in that year.

A 26.5-foot (8.1 m) scoop wheel was driven by a 30 hp (22 kW) beam engine, discharging water into the Witham.

A high-pressure condensing beam engine replaced it in 1881, which was coupled to a 48-inch (120 cm) centrifugal pump.

Further upgrades included a Foster tandem horizontal steam engine in 1924 and a Ruston diesel engine in 1938.

When the equipment was replaced by electric pumps in 1976, the diesel engine and Gwynnes pump were retained, and are open to the public during the summer"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witham_First_District_IDB 

"The 106 foot high chimney used for the steam-operated boiler was demolished in 1937 after being struck by lightning"

https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MLI82850&resourceID=1006 

Located at National Grid Reference TF188583.

Geoff Swain Collection 24 June 1994

School and School House on the right.

"The school was built in 1840 and was connected to the National Society in 1847 as Timberland National School.

At some time after 1903 it became known as Timberland CE School.

It became a primary school in September 1956, with the senior pupils transferred to the new Ruskington Secondary Modern School.

The school was closed on 6 April 1971, with the children transferred to the Mrs Mary King's School at Martin.

The school was sometimes also known as Timberland School, Timberland Village School, and (in 1968) Timberland National CE Primary School"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/TIMBERLAND-CE-SCHOOL/885939.record?pt=S 

DB 22 May 2018

Detail of heraldry.

"Juste et Droit" means "Just and Right" and was the motto of Sir Thomas Whichcote Bart. He was a principal landowner and presumably helped establish the school. 

DB 22 May 2018

Both nave and chancel of St Andrew's have been rebuilt since medieval times, and there was an extensive restoration in 1887 by H Goddard.

The broad, buttressed tower of St Andrew's, however, is partly 12th century work, while the nave arcades date from the 13th and 14th centuries.

August 2013  

"West tower of 3 stages, with very massive irregularly placed buttresses with set-offs.

West face has short off-centre buttress with 2 memorial tablets to the First and Second World Wars"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205586 

DB 22 May 2018

The view of St Andrew's from the east shows the chancel, rebuilt in 1838.

Peter Kirk Collection, 1989

A view of St Andrew's from the south-west. The buttresses supporting the tower are exceptionally stout.

April 2018

In memory of Christopher George Wheat former parish priest who died 1908.

DB 22 May 2018

Door in south side of chancel, part of Goddard's nineteenth century restoration in Perpendicular style.

August 2013

A blocked doorway in the north wall of the nave. Like the tower it dates from the early thirteenth century.

April 2018

An expressive grotesque carving.

April 2018

Stone tablets, on the west side of the church tower, recording the names of the fallen.

Tablet for the First World War Unveiled May 1920 by the Bishop of Lincoln.  

DB 22 May 2018

Contains a library and hosts many community events.

http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/TimberlandincThorpeTilney/section.asp?catId=26447 

DB 22 May 2018

Sited on Station Road leading into the village.

DB 22 May 2018

"The first Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in Bakehouse Lane in the early 1820s. It was replaced by the West Street chapel in 1878"

https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/upload/public/attachments/708/timberlandweststreet.pdf 

DB 22 May 2018

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by  Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states :-

"i) A house was registered for worship in 1817 and the first chapel erected in 1822 or 23 or 24 in Bakehouse Lane. The chapel was enlarged in 1839 but replaced in 1878 and sold in 1879. It was used by Headlands Bakery for some years but was standing unused in 1978.

ii) The foundation stone of the West Street chapel was laid on the 16.4.1878 and the chapel opened on the 8.10.1878. Electricity was installed in 1948 and the chapel is still in use with a membership of 13" 

Geoff Swain Collection 24 June 1994