"2 cottages. c.1865"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360096 

Viewed from St James churchyard. 

DB 20 August 2020

An unusual house, partly of stone and partly brick.

The brick wing is in Artisan Mannerism style with Dutch gable, pillasters and hood moulds.

Painting by James Hart Dyer, 1994

"Gateway. Mid C17 ... probably part of C17 lodge, no longer extant"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360115 

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"Farmhouse. Late C18, mid C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317654 

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Listed in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 "Bates John, Robin Hood & Little John P.H"

Also in White's Directory 1856 "Seaton Joseph Thos., gardener and vict., Robin Hood & Little John".

Located on the A15 between Sleaford and Bourne.

DB 8 August 2020

The chancel of 1856 contains original Early English lancet windows. The north and south aisle windows are Decorated whilst the grand tower is Perpendicular.

In the north west of the nave is a large and well-restored Royal Arms.

Mark Acton, 2017

The high arches on all four sides of the tower are a puzzle (Pevsner), suggesting that a cruciform plan with central tower might have been envisaged.

The clerestory is Perpendicular with three pairs of close windows. The parapet over the south aisle may date from the seventeenth century.

October 2017

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1930 states :-

"The church of St. James is a building of stone, in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with four pinnacles containing a clock and 3 bells ; the clock is a memorial to parishioners who fell in the Great War :

the nave has a bell-cote at its eastern end and there are piscinae and lockers in each aisle:

there are 100 sittings.

The register dates from the year 1558.

The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £320, with, residence, in the gift of the Rev. J. S. Barstow B.D. rector of Somerby, and held since 1906 by the Rev. Robert Stanley Coupland"

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White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"The Church (St. James) is a handsome structure, consisting of a nave with side aisles, a chancel, and square embattled tower, containing three bells, and crowned with lofty pinnacles.

The vicarage, valued in K.B. at £12. 10s. 7d., and now at £453, is in the gift of R. F. Barstow, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. Edmund Alderson, B.A."

DB 20 August 2020

"Parish church. c.1300, c.1320, mid C15, restored and chancel rebuilt 1856"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062757 

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The church clock, high on the south face of the tower, was provided as a memorial to the men of Aslackby who served in the First World War.

October 2017

The graffito to the left is a post mill, probably unconnected to the one on the right.

October 2017

The chancel arch is very similar to the tower arch and the arches of the three-bay north and south arcades follow the same style of the fourteenth century.

October 2017

The parapet above the south aisle (and behind the porch) probably dates from the seventeenth century.

Jews' Court collection, 1978

"Gabled C15 porch"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062757 

DB 20 August 2020

Scratched into the stonework of the porch. Could the inner part be a medieval mass dial with the outer clock markings added later?

DB 20 August 2020

"Early C14 west tower partially clasped by north and south aisles, with moulded plinth and string course, and 3 stage angle buttresses, the north-west buttress containing stair turret with single slit and single round lights ...

Pointed C14 west doorway with continuous moulded surround, hood mould and plank doors ...

Late C15 window inserted with pointed head, bowtell moulded surround, 3 pointed, cusped lights divided by 2 castellated transoms, panel tracery and hood mould running into string course on either side.

Large, blind pointed openings on north and south sides, the latter possibly blocked at later date, and both broken into by the lean-to roofs of aisles below"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062757 

DB 20 August 2020

The war memorial in the church carries the names of the men of Aslackby who died in the First World War:

Thomas C Pickering, Charles Green, Henry Green, Gerald B Barstow, John Edward Stanton, Herbert Gubbins, James Tyler, Ernest Plowright, Geroge E Daff, Russel Green, James W Plowright

October 2017

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Bourne Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Gerry Burrows states :-

"i) A chapel was built in 1863 by the side of a brook and rebuilt in 1882. After its closure became a baker's store but has since been demolished.

ii) The second chapel, in Temple Road was purchased from Mr Smith of Aslackby for £200 in early 1903 and may have been previously used by the Baptists. It closed in 1985 and is now a dwelling house" 

DB 20 August 2020

Dismounted date stone.

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