The clerestory, topped by battlements and pinnacles, dates from the 15th century.

May 2015

Detail of plain parapet together with crocketted angle pinnacles, crocketed flying buttresses and crocketed spire.

DB 21 March 2020

Detail of doorway surround. Work of John H Hakewill*.

October 2016

* John Henry Hakewill (1810-1880) was an architect who undertook church restoration work principally in Suffolk, Wiltshire and Nottinghamshire.

The Perpendicular tower has a four-light western window, two-light bell openings and a flower frieze under a plain parapet.

Undated postcard published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd. 

"3 stage C12 west tower heavily restored in C19, with single stage clasping buttresses with plinth.

C12 west door heavily restored in C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063091 

DB 9 September 2018

The twelfth-century nave clerestory at the west end of the nave consists of just two lights flanked by blank openings, all with shafted reveals, cushion capitals and roll moulded heads.

September 2011

The little used west door at Branston is Norman with blank arcading of the same period on either side.

June 2013

On the south side of the church are two sundials of uncertain date, one in the angle of the buttresses at the south-east corner of the nave and the other between the south-east buttresses on the wall of the tower.

Mark Acton, 2008

On the north side of St Helen's a few putlog holes survive. They were fixing points for wooden scaffolding during building construction.  Usually they were filled when work was completed.

August 2014

The most outstanding feature of St Mary's is the Anglo-Saxon tower with herringbone masonry and attached staircase tower.

The staircase is not bonded in to the tower, hence is later addition.

There are only three other similar towers in England - one of them in Lincolnshire at Hough on the Hill.

February 2015

This stoup (for holding holy water) is within the porch and to the right of the entrance door.

February 2015

The porch, on the south side, dates from the Early English period. Stiff leaf capitals alongside.

March 2017

View from the west of the bellcote.

A west tower was proposed in the early 13th century and the arch linking it to the nave can be seen here in the external wall of the church.

June 2016

The passageway between tower and nave,

August 2013

This date stone above the south doorway is inscribed

H(?) - D
1764
C - W

It is not clear what this refers to. The church was remodelled on a number of occasions, including the rendering of the south wall of the nave.

June 2015

The bellcote of 1860 viewed from the north-east.

June 2015

Kirk's design for the bellcote - not his most successful, with its juxtaposition of rock-face and ashlar stone - includes nailhead decoration, an architectural embellishment typical of the Norman period.

April 2018

The tall bellcote with steeply pitched roof is situated at the east end of the nave.

August 2015

The double bellcote is built over the west end of the nave, a common design feature of Victorian country churches.

Below the bellcote - not visible here - is a rose window in plate tracery.

May 2016

The tower of St Clement's at Fiskerton still contains putlog holes, originally created to support scaffolding during construction.

The normal practice was to fill these holes in - or possibly saw off the timber inserted in them - when the tower was completed.

September 2008

The twin bell-openings with dividing shaft on the south wall of the tower are typical of the late Saxon period (11th century).

May 2015

" C15 west tower of 5 stages with moulded plinth and clasping buttresses, embraced by north and south aisles"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062882 

"The tower contains three bells - the treble and tenor bells are from the medieval Nottingham foundry of Richard Mellows, about 1500, and the second bell was cast by Thomas Hedderly at Nottingham in 1765"

http://www.great-gonerby-church.uk/public/building.php 

DB 11 March 2019

"3 stage C11 tower of plain unbuttressed 'Lincolnshire' type, embattled C15 parapet and crocketted angle pinnacles"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168767  

Church Guide compiled by Revd R Rose 1976 states :-

"The clock was constructed to commemorate the Coronation of King George V.

It was fixed in the tower and set going on 25th January 1912" 

DB 28 July 2018 

The small bellcote at the west end of the church is topped by a tiny spirelet.

September 2015

The simple square bell-turret or bellcote is weatherboarded, presumably a twentieth-century finish.

July 2016

A fine piece of carved stone decoration on the battlements at the east end of the nave roof.

October 2017

The large bell opening high in the tower of St Andrew's. It is in Perpendicular style.

May 2016

The bell turret with its wooden base and pyramidal roof is 19th century work.

June 2015

A stylish bellcote.

The English Heritage listing simply describes it as 'a C19 trilobe and a gabled bellcote corbelled out from ashlar buttress with ogee headed bell opening'.

May 2016

"Norman west tower the only remains of the medieval church which was rebuilt in 1717, and then largely rebuilt again in 1868 by the architect Withers.

The late Cll west tower has an opening on each face, at bell chamber level, each is made up of coupled round-headed openings with columns with scalloped capitals between.

The crenellated top with 8 pinnacles is Perpendicular"

DB 8 May 2018   

"Cll west tower with plinth and quoins"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1309029 

The Church Guide states that "the tower is in part at least built onto earlier Anglo-Saxon walling" 

Note the Culloden Memorial Stone with clock above.

DB 25 September 2018

This stone fragment, now resting close to the south door of the church, was part of the medieval building replaced by James Fowler.

August 2013

Window opening in Anglo Saxon stair turret.

Aug 2012

"C16 ashlar rather squat 3 stage tower "

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1146549 

DB 18 February 2019

Base of west tower.

"Recut C12 west door with chamfered hood and imposts, above a single rectangular light"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1308771 

DB 27 June 2018  

The north side of the church shows evidence of a former aisle or two chapels.

Mark Acton, 2018

The small bell turret has a shafted opening and a gable above.

June 2014

"North side of nave with outline of 2 blocked, pointed bays of C13 north arcade"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252132 

DB 29 February 2020

"Early C14, 4 stage, ironstone west tower with 3 stage angle buttresses"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063104?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 September 2023

Much of the tower dates from the early 1200s (Early English period).

The twin bell openings are from that period though Pevsner suggest that they were modified later.

June 2017

"West tower, unbuttressed, 2 stages, has chamfered plinth, quoins, string course, eaves band, coped parapet and pyramidal roof.

Round headed west doorway, C19, with relief in tympanum.

Above, a round headed window, and above again, a clock and a similar window, both with hoodmoulds"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388599 

DB 4 February 2019

"C13 coursed rubble tower in 2 stages with corner buttresses ... Spire replaced in C19 with saddle back plain tile roof"

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of St. John the Baptist is a small building of stone, in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel and nave, both with clerestory, aisles, south porch and a western tower with saddle-back roof containing 3 bells:

the porch, south aisle and chancel are embattled, and ornamented with light buttresses and rich pinnacles:

the interior was restored and reseated in 1879 at a cost of £1,047  raised by subscription:

there are 162 sittings"

DB 25 March 2019

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1913 states

"A lofty tower of three stages, erected in 1516, with a pierced and panelled parapet, four large octagonal turret-pinnacles connected by flying buttresses with the spire, and twelve smaller pinnacles; the crocketed spire, to the cross by which it is surmounted, is 147 feet in height, and the total height from the floor of the church is 294 feet"

"in 1843 the spire was seriously injured by lightning, but was subsequently restored under the direction of the late Mr. L. N. Cottingham, and completed in 1846, at a cost of £1,746 19s. 3d." 

DB 12 September 2018

"Mid C14 west tower with plinth and C18, 3 stage brick diagonal buttresses with greenstone set- offs"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359971 

DB 22 October 2018

Detail of the foliage at the head of the shafts alongside the NW porch entrance.

March 2016

Tower viewed from the east. 

"Three storey square tower with angle buttresses, octagonal bell chamber and octagonal spire 130 ft high ... 

Four tall geometric tracery bell openings above and 4 lucarnes in spire"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061911 

DB 7 December 2019

This Norman slab with closely set horizontal zig-zag is in the south wall of the nave.

It is possibly a grave slab.

May 2016

"South side of nave with outline of 3 early C13 pointed arcade bays"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064025?section=official-list-entry 

The south aisle was removed C18 and the arcade filled in. 

DB 14 May 2022

"South side of nave with outline of 3 early C13 pointed arcade bays. Foliated capital on corbel head between first and second bays from east, with octagonal abacus"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064025?section=official-list-entry 

DB 14 May 2022

The elaborate bell-turret of St James's, corbelled out and with a spirelet, is described by Pevsner as "just High Victorian".

September 2015

In the tower a twin bell-opening with centre shaft, typical of the Anglo-Saxon period.

April 2017

The unusual design of the gable end at the east end of the church.

June 2013

Detail of the brick tower at the west end of the church showing one of the two-light bell-openings.

June 2013

Jean Howard, 10 April 2022

St Helen's bell turret with ogee cap.

January 2014

Leaf capitals at the south porch entrance (late thirteenth century).

March 2017

Buttresses at the south-east corner of the chancel are made from chalk and ironstone.

All Saints' church is one of a few surviving Wolds buildings in which chalk has been used.

September 2012

The Early English blind arcades and Perpendicular windows on the south side of the nave of All Saints.

September 2011

"The 4 stage tower with embattled and pinnacled parapet has corner buttresses.

Blocked west door has 4 centred arched head and square label with human head stops.

Above is a 3 light perpendicular style window, a lancet, and to belfry stage paired lights with panel tracery and square surrounds"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063163 

DB 20 March 2019

The bellcote over the west gable at St Hugh's is simply constructed in timber with tile and copper cladding.

May 2014

The short west tower at Thimbleby has an octagonal upper stage and a small spire.

June 2013

The three-bay arcade of the thirteenth century has quatrefoil piers with stiff-leaf capitals.

August 2017

The charming but neglected bell-cote has weatherboarded sides, louvred bell openings and a concave pyramidal lead roof.

May 2016

The western bell-turret with its tiles and ornamental lead roof was added to the church in 1932.

July 2014

Enlarged photograph of the bellcote over the chancel.

July 2013

A closer view of the elaborate bell cote.

June 2014

The east window has two attractive hood mould stops: this to the south depicts a queen.

Jean Howard, January 2024 

In the north wall of the chancel this former fifteenth-century window has been remade during the nineteenth century to create a niche for a sculpture, now missing.

Jean Howard, January 2024