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Brigg Congregational Church
Brigg Congregational Church
Brigg Congregational Church

"Brigg Congregational Church ... Ornate Gothic, rendered. Parapet and cornice. Centre gable with foliated finial, roundel and date"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346766?section=official-list-entry 

Now Lovelle Estate Agency.

DB 10 December 2023

Brigg, Congregational Church
Brigg, Angel Hotel
Brigg, Angel Hotel
Brigg, Angel Hotel

Brigg Heritage Centre is situated on the first floor of The Angel, a former 17th Century coaching inn"

https://www.visitnorthlincolnshire.com/item/brigg-heritage-centre/

White's Directory 1856 has "Angel Inn, Thos. Dawson" and in 1872 "Angel Hotel, J ames B. Kirkbam, 26 Market place". 

Listed in Kelly's Directory 1930 "Angel, Angel Hotel Co. Ltd. (E. A. Gresham, mngr.), Market pl" 

DB 10 December 2023

Brigg, Angel Hotel, inn, Heritage Centre
Brigg, Angel Hotel 
Brigg, Angel Hotel 
Brigg, Angel Hotel 

The Angel Hotel stands on the south side of the Market Place.

The enclosed courtyard to the east of the hotel was once the passage giving access to stables in the yard at the rear.

postcard by Kinsway, 1933

Brigg, Angel Hotel, Kinsway
Brigg, Bell's Mill (1)
Brigg, Bell's Mill (1)
Brigg, Bell's Mill (1)

This mill, with five floors and four sails, is the only survivor of a group of six in the town.

It was built in the 1830s by James Hart of Brigg.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph 1911

Brigg, Bell's Mill, Mill Lane, Jon Sass, James Hart
Brigg, Bell’s Mill (2)
Brigg, Bell’s Mill (2)
Brigg, Bell’s Mill (2)

Bell's Mill was worked by wind until 1920 and later by steam engine. The driving wheel can still be seen on the side of the tower (see left in this photograph).

It is Grade II listed.

Location of mill: SE 996 065

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

Brigg, Bell's Mill windmill, Peter Kirk
Brigg, Bigby Street
Brigg, Bigby Street
Brigg, Bigby Street

An early view along Bigby Street, looking east towards the parish church and Methodist Church.

postcard in Wrench Series published by Jackson & Sons of Brigg, undated

Brigg, Bigby Street, Wrench Series, Jackson & Sons
Brigg, Black Bull Public House
Brigg, Black Bull Public House
Brigg, Black Bull Public House

White's Directory 1856 has "Black Bull, John Gibson" and in 1872 "Black Bull, Mrs H. Gibson, 3 Wrawby street".

Listed in Kelly's Directory 1885 "Gibson Harriet (Mrs.), Black Bull P.H. 3 Wrawby street" and in 1919 "Jeffrey Blanche (Mrs.), Black Bull P.H. Wrawby street".

DB 16 December 2018

Brigg, Black Bull, Public House
Brigg, Britannia Inn
Brigg, Britannia Inn
Brigg, Britannia Inn

Listed in Kelly's Directory 1896 "Britannia inn, Robert Hill, Wrawby street, Brigg" and in 1930 "Britannia inn, J. Percy Goates, Wrawby st. Brigg"

DB 10 December 2023

Brigg, Brittania Inn, public house
Brigg, Cadney Road
Brigg, Cadney Road
Brigg, Cadney Road

Cadney Road is the extension of Elwes Street running south from the centre of the town along the east bank of the Old River Ancholme.

In the distance is the bridge carrying the MSLR line of 1848/49 running from Sheffield to Cleethorpes. Brigg station is a short distance to the east (left).

postcard by Valentine, 1910

Brigg, Cadney Road. MSLR railway
Brigg, Courthouse
Brigg, Courthouse
Brigg, Courthouse

Marked as "County Court" on the OS 25 inch map published 1907.

White's Directory 1856 reports :-

"BRIGG COUNTY COURT, for the 31 parishes, &c., noticed above, is held monthly, at the Police Station. J. G. S. Smith, Esq., is the judge; John Hett, Esq., clerk; and Jonathan Spring, bailiff. The POLICE STATION in Wrawby street, was built in 1845, at the cost of about £2000. It has a house for the superintending constable, cells for prisoners, and accommodation for the County Court and petty sessions. The latter are held here every alternate Tuesday, and J. Hett, Esq., is clerk to the magistrates. Brigg Association for the Prosecution of Felons has about 60 members, and Mr. Frederick Garfit, is the clerk"

Kelly's Directory 1930 has :-

"Brigg & Scunthorpe County Court, Police Station, Wrawby street & Police Station, Scunthorpe; office, Chapel street, Scunthorpe; His Honor Thomas Witheridge Langman, judge; Henry M. Hett, registrar & high bailiff.

The monthly court is held alternately with Scunthorpe. The following parishes & places are within its jurisdiction :- Appleby, Barnetby-le-Wold, Bottesford, Brumby, Broughton, Burringham, Burton-upon-Stather, Butterwick East, Cadney-cum-Howsham, Castlethorpe, Cleatham, Croxton, Elsham, Flixborough, Gokewell, Glanford Brigg, Gunhouse, Hibaldstow, Holme, Kirmington, Kirton-in-Lindsey, Manby, Manton, Melton Ross, Messingham, Newstead, Normanby, Ravensthorpe, Redbourne, Santon (High & Low), Scawby-cum-Sturton, Scunthorpe & Frodingham, Thealby, Twigmoor, Worlaby, Wrawby, Yaddlethorpe"

DB 10 December 2023

Brigg, Courthouse
Brigg, Dying Gladiator
Brigg, Dying Gladiator
Brigg, Dying Gladiator

The only public house in Britain to be called "Dying Gladiator".

"Mid C18"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083157 

Listed in White's Directory 1856 "Gladiator, Hy. and Thos. Clark" and in 1872 "Gladiator, Henry & Thomas Clarke, 49 Bigby street".

DB 16 December 2018

Brigg, Dying Gladiator, Public House
Brigg, Dying Gladiator
Brigg, Dying Gladiator
Brigg, Dying Gladiator

"Plain attached columns to doorway with realistic sculpture of dying gladiator on entablature"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083157 

DB 16 December 2018

Brigg, Dying Gladiator, Public House
Brigg, Exchange Hotel
Brigg, Exchange Hotel
Brigg, Exchange Hotel

"The Exchange Club ... Mid C18 and later. Yellow and red brick. The 2 houses form a slightly irregular unit joining in a symmetrical gable end projecting to the roadway with a large stepped gable"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083154?section=official-list-entry 

Once a lawyers house, in 1862 a girls school, after 1910 a social club "The Exchange" and now a hotel. 

https://www.theexchangebrigg.co.uk/about 

Kelly's Directory 1930 has "The Corn Exchange was erected in 1850 by a joint stock company, but is now used as a cinema. The Exchange Club, established 1866, has premises in Bigby street. There is a news and reading room"

DB 10 December 2023

Brigg, Exchange Club, Hotel
Brigg, Market Place
Brigg, Market Place
Brigg, Market Place

Postcard view of Market Place in 1923.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "The weekly store stock and general market is held on Thursdays, and is very well attended; a fat stock market is held fortnightly on Tuesday, and a fair on the 5th of August for cattle and general commodities; there is also a hiring for servants on the Friday before Old May-day"

Brigg, Market Place
Brigg, Market Place
Brigg, Market Place
Brigg, Market Place

Undated view of Brigg market.

Postcard by Harrison Photo, Lincoln.

Brigg, Market, Postcard
Brigg, Market Place,  Buttercross Town Hall
Brigg, Market Place, Buttercross Town Hall
Brigg, Market Place, Buttercross Town Hall

"The old town hall - now known as the Buttercross - was built in 1817"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigg 

"Small building at road junction of 2 storeys in yellow brick and slate roof. Circa 1817"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1083130 

DB 16 December 2018 

Brigg, Buttercross Town Hall
Brigg, Market Place, Buttercross Bell
Brigg, Market Place, Buttercross Bell
Brigg, Market Place, Buttercross Bell

Standing near the old town hall known as the Buttercross.

"PRESENTED BY THE ROTARY CLUB OF BRIGG TO CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL IN 2005"

Pitting corrosion evident. 

Bandstand visible in the background. 

DB 16 December 2018

Brigg, Buttercross Bell, Rotary Club, Rotary International
Brigg, Market Place, NatWest Bank
Brigg, Market Place, NatWest Bank
Brigg, Market Place, NatWest Bank

Former NatWest bank branch which closed 13th June 2018.

Ghost sign states "National Provincial Bank Established 1833"

The K6 type telephone kiosk visible in front of the bank is a listed structure.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346768 

DB 16 December 2018 

 

Brigg, Bank, Natwest, National Provincial Bank, K6 type telephone kiosk
Brigg, Methodist Church
Brigg, Methodist Church
Brigg, Methodist Church

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Brigg Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Mervyn White September 1997 (Revised July 1998) states :-

"A new all purpose church at the junction of Barnard Avenue and Wesley Road was erected in 1962/3.

The foundation stone for an extension was laid on the 13.4.1963 and it was opened on the 8.12.1963.

A further extension was opened on the 4.12.1993.

The church is still in use with a membership of 66" 

Geoff Swain Collection 18 October 1993

Brigg, Methodist Church
Brigg, Pingley POW Camp
Brigg, Pingley POW Camp
Brigg, Pingley POW Camp
Timber-framed hut at Pingley Camp made by the Laing Company for housing prisoners of war during WW2.
 
Although the hamlet of Pingley is about a mile east of the centre of Brigg, it lies in Bigby parish.
 
The outside walls were clad in bituminised corrugated iron and the roofing material was corrugated asbestos-cement sheeting.
 
John T Turner, c. 2004
Brigg, Pingley Camp, Prisoners of War
Brigg, Pingley POW Camp
Brigg, Pingley POW Camp
Brigg, Pingley POW Camp
Brick-clad reinforced-concrete water tower at Pingley Camp, Brigg.
 
John T Turner c.2004
Brigg, Pingley Camp, water tower
Brigg, Post Office
Brigg, Post Office
Brigg, Post Office

Post Office which opened in the 1930s.

https://nigelfishersbriggblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/brigg-heritage-centre-opens-new.html 

DB 10 December 2023

Brigg, Post Office
Brigg, St John the Evangelist
Brigg, St John the Evangelist
Brigg, St John the Evangelist

The tall tower of St John's rises above the surrounding buildings at the church's south-east corner.

February 2015

Brigg, St John Evangelist church
Brigg, St John the Evangelist
Brigg, St John the Evangelist
Brigg, St John the Evangelist

At first glance the church appears to be built in yellow-grey brick but the material is in fact small stone blocks of irregular length laid in regular narrow courses.

February 2015

Brigg, St John Evangelist church
Brigg, St John the Evangelist
Brigg, St John the Evangelist
Brigg, St John the Evangelist

St John's is Early English in style and has pairs of lancet windows all along the high nave.

Designed by the Lincoln architect W A Nicholson and built in 1841-3.

February 2015

Brigg, St John Evangelist church, W A Nicholson
Brigg, St John the Evangelist
Brigg, St John the Evangelist
Brigg, St John the Evangelist

View of the church from the north showing the entrance from the High Street.

July 2016

Brigg, St John Evangelist
Brigg, St John the Evangelist
Brigg, St John the Evangelist
Brigg, St John the Evangelist

Church viewed from Bigby Street, to the east, church hall in the foreground.

DB 10 December 2023

Brigg, Saint John Evangelist, church
Brigg, St John the Evangelist and Methodist Church
Brigg, St John the Evangelist and Methodist Church
Brigg, St John the Evangelist and Methodist Church

This view looking east along Bigby Street shows the parish church of St John Evangelist with the post-war church hall in front.

Nearer the camera is the imposing facade of the Methodist Church of 1865. It was built for the Wesleyan Reform Union*, closed for worship in 1962 and demolished in 1966.

* The Wesleyan Reform Union, one of several splinter groups in Methodism, was formed in 1859. Churches were independent and self-governing; they did not join in unions of other branches of the Methodist Church. However, the Brigg WRU chapel became a member of the United Methodist connexion at some date in the second half of the 19th century.

Frith postcard, undated

Brigg, St John Evangelist, Wesleyan Reform Union
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Chancel
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Chancel
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Chancel

Church was "Built 1841-3 by W A Nicholson, some alterations in 1883 by W White"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1204035 

DB 16 December 2018

Brigg, Saint John Evangelist, church, chancel, W A Nicholson, W White
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Chancel
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Chancel
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Chancel

"There is one bay of sexpartite vaulting, probably plaster, in the chancel"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1204035 

DB 15 December 2019 

Brigg, Saint John Evangelist, church, sexpartite vaulting
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Chancel
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Chancel
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Chancel

Detail of the reredos behind the altar.

DB 15 December 2019

Brigg, Saint John Evangelist, church, chancel, reredos
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, East Window
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, East Window
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, East Window

Three main figures are Saint David left, Christ in Glory center, and Saint John the Evangelist right holding St John's Church.

Below are scenes of Brigg.

DB 16 December 2018

Brigg, Saint John Evangelist, church
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Font
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Font
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Font

C19 Font.

DB 15 December 2019

Brigg, Saint John Evangelist, church, font
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Nave
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Nave
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Nave

Looking east towards the chancel.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of St. John the Evangelist, situated in the centre of the town, and rebuilt in 1842-3 on the site of the earlier church, at an expense of about £2,700, is a building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, north and south porches and an eastern tower, with pinnacles, containing 6 bells:

the bells were retuned and hung in a new frame in 1912:

the stained west window was erected in 1894 as a memorial to the late Rev. Philip Henry Brierly M.A. vicar 1879-93:

the sedilia were presented in 1893 by Albert Cressey esq.:

part of the outside stone work was restored in 1893 at a cost of £200, and the remainder in 1911 at a cost of £142, and the south porch restored in 1896:

there are 450 sittings"

DB 16 December 2018

Brigg, Saint John Evangelist, church, nave
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Nave
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Nave
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Nave

The west window is set very high to accommodate neighbouring buildings.

"The arcades have octagonal piers and double chamfered arches"

"Very plain C19 nave benches"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1204035 

DB 16 December 2018

Brigg, Saint John Evangelist, church
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Organ
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Organ
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Organ

The makers plate states :-

"Bevington & Son

London 1868"

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

DB 16 December 2018

Brigg, Saint John Evangelist, church, organ, Bevington & Son
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Pulpit
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Pulpit
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Pulpit

C19 pulpit.

Church was "refurnished in 1883 by the noted Victorian church architect William White"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1204035 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_White_(architect) 

DB 16 December 2018

Brigg, Saint John Evangelist, church, pulpit, William White
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, War Memorial
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, War Memorial
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, War Memorial

"Memorial dedicated by the Dean of Lincoln February 21st 1931"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Brigg-St-John-Triptych/1579281.record?pt=S

DB 16 December 2018

Brigg, Saint John Evangelist, church, war memorial
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, West Window
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, West Window
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, West Window

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"the stained west window was erected in 1894 as a memorial to the late Rev. Philip Henry Brierly M.A. vicar 1879-93"

DB 16 December 2018

Brigg, Saint John Evangelist, church, stained glass, west window
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Window
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Window
Brigg, St John the Evangelist, Window

Modern stained glass in the south aisle depicting Edward King left and Saint Hugh right.

Both former Bishops of Lincoln 

DB 16 December 2018

Brigg, Saint John Evangelist, church, stained glass
Brigg, Sugar Beet Factory
Brigg, Sugar Beet Factory
Brigg, Sugar Beet Factory

The sugar beet factory at Brigg, one of 18 run by the British Sugar Corporation, opened in 1928 and closed in 1991.

It was sited close to the New River Ancholme and the Sheffield-Cleethorpes railway about a mile south-west of the town.

A gas-powered station, now operated by Centrica, was built on an adjacent site in 1993.

postcard by Tuck, undated

Brigg, sugar beet factory, British Sugar Corporation, Centrica
Brigg, War Memorial
Brigg, War Memorial
Brigg, War Memorial

"The war memorial is located on Monument Roundabout at the junction of Wrawby Street, Bigby Road and Wrawby Road. It is made of Portland Stone and is in the form of an eternal flame at the top of a column flanked by two couchant lions on pedestals.

The memorial has a two-stepped base in the shape of a rectangle with a circle in the centre. Above this is the column base with rounded buttress plinths to the front and rear. On either side, rectangular pedestals are surmounted by the carved lions. On each face of the pedestals are grey granite panels inscribed with gilt lettering.

The column, square on plan and 7.3m tall, rises from the base. At the top of the column is an elaborately carved urn decorated with festoons, and from which issues the eternal flame"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1435404?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 December 2023

Brigg, War Memorial
Brigg, War Memorial
Brigg, War Memorial
Brigg, War Memorial

"The rounded buttress plinths are inscribed in incised lettering. On the front (west) side the inscription reads TO THE/ GLORIOUS MEMORY/ OF THE/ MEN OF BRIGG/ WHO DIED FOR/ FREEDOM AND HONOUR/ IN THE GREAT/ WAR/ 1914-1918/ 1939-1945. To the rear the inscription reads THIS MEMORIAL/ WAS ERECTED AND PRESENTED TO/ THE TOWN OF BRIGG/ BY/ COUNCILLOR HENRY STAMP, JP., C.C./ CHAIRMAN OF THE URBAN COUNCIL/ 1915-1919/ UNVEILED BY MRS STAMP/ SUNDAY JUNE 15TH 1919. Above each inscription the cornice is decorated with a cartouche displaying the town badge.

The granite panels on the western side of the memorial are inscribed with the names of the fallen under the words ROLL OF HONOUR/ ROYAL NAVY/ (NAMES)/ ARMY (NAMES) and ROLL OF HONOUR/ ARMY (NAMES). On the eastern side of the memorial the southern panel records names, principally from the Second World War, under the inscription ROLL OF HONOUR (NAMES), whilst that on the northern side has the inscription "OH VALIANT HEARTS, WHO TO YOUR GLORY CAME/ THROUGH DUST OF CONFLICT AND THROUGH BATTLE FLAME,/ TRANQUIL YOU LIE, YOUR KNIGHTLY VIRTUE PROVED,/ YOUR MEMORY HALLOWED IN THE LAND YOU LOVED”"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1435404?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 December 2023

Brigg, War Memorial
Brigg, Warehouse
Brigg, Warehouse
Brigg, Warehouse

"Warehouse occupied by the Farmer's Co Ltd ... Large warehouse building, probably of late C18"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346746?section=official-list-entry 

Located on Market Place next to the old River Ancholme. 

DB 10 December 2023

Brigg, Warehouse
Brigg, White Hart Inn
Brigg, White Hart Inn
Brigg, White Hart Inn

White's Directory 1856 has " White Hart, .A. M. & E. Sergeant and Co." and in 1872 "White Hart, George Carr, Bridge st".

Listed in Kelly's Directory 1930 "White Hart inn, Jas. Raynham, Bridge st. Brigg"

Now a venue for hire "A unique luxury waterfront celebration venue, The White Hart Pub has been restored and converted into an exclusive self-catering venue for you to hire"

https://www.briggwhitehart.co.uk/ 

"White Hart Public House ... Mid C18. 2 storeys in painted roughcast with pantile roof with stone coped gable ends and 2 brick stacks"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346780?section=official-list-entry 

DB 10 December 2023

Brigg, White Hart Inn, public house
Brigg, Wrawby Street
Brigg, Wrawby Street
Brigg, Wrawby Street

Postcard view of Wrawby Street in 1923 - appear to be looking east with the Black Bull Hotel on the left.

Brigg, Wrawby Street, Postcard
Brigg, Yarborough Hunt
Brigg, Yarborough Hunt
Brigg, Yarborough Hunt
Brigg, Yarborough Hunt, public house, Sergeants Brewery tap