All Saints is built of greenstone, and has a 12th century doorway, and a north arcade of c1200.

Much of the building, including the west tower is 15th century.

The church was extensively restored by Ewan Christian in 1872.

September 2006

All Saints is built of greenstone, and has a 12th century doorway, and a north arcade of c1200. 

Much of the building, including the west tower is 15th century.

The church was extensively restored by Ewan Christian in 1872.

September 2006

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of All Saints is a building of stone in the Perpendicular and Earlier styles, and consisting of large chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing 3 bells, 8 tubular bells and a clock placed in 1903 by Mr. Basset in memory of his mother:

there are several monuments to the Rockcliffe family:

in the north aisle are memorial windows to Elizabeth Jane wife of Edmund Ruck-Keene esq. of Swyncombe, Oxon, and daughter of William and Elizabeth Elmhirst, who died in Dec. 1875; to Gen. Elmhirst C.B. (d. 1893) and Frances (Hunt) his wife and to Mrs. Lilian Frances Elmhirst:

at the west end of the aisle is a memorial window to William Augustus Elmhirst, capt. 9th Foot, d. 1892:

in the chancel are brasses to Lieut. Stack and Mrs. Booth:

in 1873 the church was completely restored and reseated, the cost of the restoration of the tower being defrayed by Mrs. Basset, daughter of the late William Elmhirst esq. in memory of Mrs. Barnard, well known, under the name of "Claribel," as a musical composer:

there are 200 sittings"

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The tower and the south porch.

September 2018

Details of charitable bequests made in the village, 1840

September 2018

Church was open for the First "Lincolnshire Wolds And Coast Churches Festival".

Brochure describes All Saints Church as :-

"Grade I listed, originating late middle ages. 19th century restoration, partly in memory of Victorian songwriter, Claribel.

Oscar Wilde came to the church whilst visiting his uncle, the vicar, but Oscar soon fell out with his relative over theology and quickly escaped back to London on the train!

Interesting features include Victorian stained glass, late medieval font and windows and curious masonic gravestone outside south porch"

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Cl9 east window part of Ewan Christian's 1872-3 restoration.

C19 glass.

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"SACRED to the Memory of, RICHARD CALTHROP an Officer of the ROYAL NAVY who gallantly fought and fell in defence of CHRISTIAN LIBERTY on the dreadful but ever memorable attack upon ALGIERS on the 27th day of August 1816 Aged 25 Years ... "

"The Bombardment of Algiers (27 August 1816) was an attempt by Britain and the Netherlands to end the slavery practices of Omar Agha, the Dey of Algiers.

An Anglo-Dutch fleet under the command of Admiral Lord Exmouth bombarded ships and the harbour defences of Algiers.

There was a continuing campaign by various European navies and the American navy to suppress the piracy against Europeans by the North African Barbary states.

The specific aim of this expedition, however, was to free Christian slaves and to stop the practice of enslaving Europeans"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Algiers_(1816) 

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"Monument of white and grey marble to Thomas Rockcliffe, died 1783"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252247 

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Masonic gravestone with the all-seeing eye of God at the top.

William Drewry Died May 27th 1801 Aged 81. 

Near south porch. 

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"IN MEMORY OF THESE WEST ASHBY MEN WHO DIED IN THE WAR 1914 - 1919 MAY THEY REST IN PEACE"

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"C15 octagonal font with cusped traceried panels on bowl and pedestal"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252247 

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Looking east towards the chancel.

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Looking west towards the tower arch.

"4 bay north arcade of c.1200"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252247 

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C14 north aisle looking east.

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Many interesting C19 stained glass windows.

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A capital on pier of unusual design in the north arcade dating from the thirteenth century.

September 2018

"Interior early C12 doorway with semi-circular head"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252247 

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The porch in the south-west corner of the nave dates from the fifteenth century.

September 2018

The doorway from the south porch is Early Norman in origin, though restored.

September 2018

Benefactions boards displayed in the base of the tower.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 mentions several charities :-

"In 1707 Richard Freeman left an annuity or rent-charge of 10s. for the use of the poor; in 1763 Hurton Barker left an annuity or rent-charge of 10s.; and in 1848 Mrs. Baker left £300 in the £3 per Cent. Reduced Bank Annuities for purchasing coals"

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C15 west tower with tall C19 west window.

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View of the tower from the north-west. It has a parapet with frieze in lozenge design.

September 2018

Formerly known as the Green Dragon Inn.

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 lists both a beerhouse and the Green Dragon.

Marshall Frank, beerhouse

Marshall Robert, cattle dealer & vict. Green Dragon

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An early eighteenth century house, L-shaped with an east front of 5 bays. It has two storeys and pedimented dormers.

The doorway on the East elevation is particularly fine - Roman Doric pilasters and frieze, straight canopy resting on carved brackets.

Hugh D Martineau, c.1980

Brick Gothic of the 1840s.

Hugh D Martineau, c.1980

(White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states "J. B. Stanhope and Wm. Elmhirst, Esqrs., are lords of the manor. The latter owns a great part of the soil, and resides at the Manor House a large and handsome mansion built in 1840, and enlarged four years ago")

A seventeenth-century house altered in the eighteenth century and again in 1840. Later it became a hotel and it is now a residential home.

Pearl Wheatley, 2013