"House, now subdivided into flats. C17, with C18 and C19 additions and alterations"

"At the front of the house is a C18 low stone balustrade with shaped balusters on a base of large pecked stone blocks.

It is open in front of the door, and was evidently intended to lend dignity to the facade"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062421 

DB 9 July 2018

"Cross base and part of shaft; C14"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062423 

Unfortunately showing signs of recent damage. 

DB 9 July 2018

Public house now converted to residential use.

Reported in Grantham Journal 29 March 2018 :-

"Hopes of saving an empty Ancaster pub have faded after plans have been approved to convert the rest of it into housing.

The Ermine Way pub on Ermine Street has been closed since 2014 and has already been partly converted, leaving just its bar area remaining"

https://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/end-of-the-road-for-ancaster-pub-1-8437016/ 

Previously known as the Butchers Arms and listed in Kelly's Directory 1930 "Dennis Thos. H. Butchers' Arms P.H"

DB 9 July 2018

Detail above main entrance to the former public house.

DB 9 July 2018

"House: early C18 with C19 additions"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062420 

DB 9 July 2018

Former Oddfellows' Hall on Ermine street, now the Parish Hall.

"Odd Fellows, or Oddfellows, also Odd Fellowship or Oddfellowship, is an international fraternity consisting of lodges first documented in 1730 in London"

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

DB 9 March 2019 

Hand & Heart Lodge 1900.

DB 9 March 2019

Station with signal box on left and former engine shed on right.

"Opened by the Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway, then run by the Great Northern Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923.

The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Railways"

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

DB 9 July 2018

Looking east from Ancaster Station.

The line to the right is no longer connected to the network and has an abandonded brake van (?) in position.

DB 29 October 2019

Shown as the "Railway Hotel (P.H.)" on the OS 25 inch map published 1905 and Listed in Kelly's Directory 1930 "Railway (The), Geo. Edwd. Robinson, Ancaster, Grnthm". 

DB 9 July 2018

"Rectory; 1842"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360300 

DB 9 July 2018

Excavated in the 1960s to make way for the modern cemetery.

DB 9 July 2018

Excavated in the 1960s to make way for the modern cemetery.

DB 9 July 2018

This enamelled copper alloy brooch, in the form of running hare, dates to the 2nd Century AD.

Hares were sacred animals in Iron Age Britain, and it is likely that these beliefs continued into the Roman period.

Brooches such as this may therefore had greater significance to their wearers than simple representations of common animals.

The brooch was found at Ancaster, the site of an important Roman town.

Courtesy of Lincolnshire County Council, The Collection

Discovered in 1831 when a grave was being dug in Saint Martin's churchyard.

Sculpture shows three seated goddesses and represents the Romano-Celtic Mother-Goddess in triple form.

https://www.thecollectionmuseum.com/assets/downloads/IS_arch_8_gods_and_goddesses_of_roman_ancaster.pdf 

This is a replica displayed in Saint Martin's churchyard wall. Original on loan to The Collection, Lincoln.

https://www.thecollectionmuseum.com 

DB 9 July 2018

This carved stone was originally part of an archway, leading into a Romano-Celtic shrine near Ancaster.

The inscription reads:

DEO VIRIDIO
TRENICO ARCVM
FECIT DE [SV]O DONA[VIT]

This translates as 'To the God Viridius, Trenico set up this arch at his own expense'.

Viridius is a deity known only at Ancaster, and represents an Iron Age deity whose worship continued into the Roman period.

His name, which includes the element 'vir' (man, in Latin) suggests that he may represent a god with connections to masculinity and virility.

Courtesy of Lincolnshire County Council, The Collection

Externally, much of St Martin's is Perpendicular, dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. There is 12th century work in the chancel, however, notably the corbel table.

May 2015

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

May 2015

The Porch is 13th century, though its roof was rebuilt in 1713.

May 2015

Saint Martin's Church viewed from the cemetery.

"Parish Church. C11, C12, C13, C14, C15, 1713, restored in C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062422 

DB 9 July 2018

This capital on the pier at the east end of the north aisle shows detailed decoration of the Norman period (c.1160-70).

May 2015

From left to right window depicts Christ rising from the dead, his crucifixion, and ascension.

Inscription at the bottom reads :-

"TO CHARLES ALLIX & MARY HIS WIFE IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE BY THEIR CHILDREN ANNO DOMINI : MDCCCLXVI"

DB 9 July 2018

This board in the porch of St Martin's church is undated. (Fees are likely to have remained unchanged for a long period of time in the 19th and early 20th centuries.)

April 2016

The 12th century tub font has intersecting blank arcading on its sides.

May 2015

Within the porch stand two 14th century grave covers depicting priests. This one has his hands clasped in prayer.

May 2015

This 14th century grave cover stands in the porch and depicts a priest with a chalice.

May 2015

A finely decorated gravestone by the north-east corner of the church.

May 2015

This is a fine, deeply carved headstone in local limestone. Unfortunately the inscription has long since disappeared.

April 2016

The 12th century north arcade has sturdy piers and round arcades with Norman billet and zigzag decoration.

May 2015

Interior view looking west.

The Norman north arcade becomes progressively more ornate at it approaches the chancel :-

"first a step, second a step and a roll, third a large roll with billet decoration, and the fourth with deep chevrons in 2 orders" 

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062422 

"A door above the tower arch has a pointed head with a corbel beneath"

DB 9 July 2018

Interior view looking east.

Early English south arcade & chancel arch.  

"South arcade of 3 bays, piers decorated with 4 angle shafts in the principal directions; the 2 piers stand on the circular base of an earlier C12 nave arcade"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062422 

DB 9 July 2018

Monument to Captain William Kent Allix, who fell at the Battle of Inkerman during the Crimean War.

Mark Acton, 2016

A monument by Thomas King of Bath for John Roe who died in 1796.

April 2016

This tablet with fine trumpeting angel is on the wall of the north aisle and commemorates Elizabeth Long who died in 1743. She was wife of Edward Long.

April 2016

The single pedestal supporting the monument to John Roe bears the name of the sculptor, T(homas) King, Ft (fecit) Bath, founder of a long lasting company of west country monumental masons. His dates: 1741-1804.

April 2016

"South door has a bizarre trefoil head with pointed chamfered hood mould"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062422 

DB 9 July 2018 

World War 2 memorial in the south aisle of Saint Martin's Church.

DB 9 July 2018

World War 1 memorial in the porch of Saint Martin's Church.

DB 9 July 2018

This substantial house in Flemish style was built for the Allix family by William Watkins in 1873 in West Willoughby, one mile west of Ancaster.

Ancaster stone was used from the nearby quarries.

A succession of tenants lived at the hall, but it was largely unoccupied after World War 1.

In ruinous condition, it was demolished in 1964.

More details about this house and its owners can be found in T R Leach and R Pacey's book, 'Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses: Volume 2', published by SLHA.  Buy a copy.