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Castle Bytham
 
Castle Bytham, Castle
Castle Bytham, Castle
Castle Bytham, Castle

These earthworks are thought to be the remains of the Norman Castle which took advantage of a naturally defensive site which was improved by the building of ditches and a Motte and Bailey.

Further developments including an outer Bailey have made this site complex and difficult to interpret.

Castle Bytham, norman,
Castle Bytham, Castle Inn, High Street
Castle Bytham, Castle Inn, High Street
Castle Bytham, Castle Inn, High Street

"Public house. C17, raised and altered mid C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165805 

This building was previously known as the Three Tuns. 

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 lists two public houses in the village :-

Doly Edmund, vict. Three Tuns

Wade Caroline, vict. Castle 

Also

Wing John, mason and beerhouse

Woods Joseph, beerhouse

When the Castle Inn, which was next to the site of the castle, burnt down in 1976 the Three Tuns was renamed.

https://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=2617 

DB 6 April 2019

Castle Bytham, Castle Inn, public house, Three Tuns
Castle Bytham, Fox & Hounds Inn, High Street
Castle Bytham, Fox & Hounds Inn, High Street
Castle Bytham, Fox & Hounds Inn, High Street

Not mentioned in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1937 so presumably of more recent origin.

DB 6 April 2019

Castle Bytham, Fox & Hounds Inn
Castle Bytham, Lime Kiln
Castle Bytham, Lime Kiln
Castle Bytham, Lime Kiln

This brick-built Lime Kiln is the survivor of ten kilns built in a limestone quarry adjacent to the Bourne to Saxby Railway which was opened shortly after the railway was finished in 1893.

It is 7m high and has a single charging hole accessible from the top of the bank which it is built into.

The quarry is believed to have closed in 1960 and the kiln is one of very few surviving in Lincolnshire.

See: Stewart Squires, Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 45 (2010), pp 36-39.

Castle Bytham,
Castle Bytham, New Inn, Station Road
Castle Bytham, New Inn, Station Road
Castle Bytham, New Inn, Station Road

Former beer house shown on the 25 inch OS Map published 1888.

Mentioned in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1937 :-

"New Inn (Mrs. Annie S. Wing)" 

Now a private house. 

DB 6 April 2019

Castle Bytham, New Inn, Station Road, beer house
Castle Bytham, St James
Castle Bytham, St James
Castle Bytham, St James

The unusually long chancel of St James' church was rebuilt in the late fourteenth century. The windows in this south elevation are of the Decorated period.

The church was extensively restored by C H Fowler in 1898-1900.

March 2017

Castle Bytham, St James, C H Fowler
Castle Bytham, St James
Castle Bytham, St James
Castle Bytham, St James

The unbuttressed tower is in Early English style.

The south transept was rebuilt in 1857.

March 2017

Castle Bytham, St James
Castle Bytham, St James, Churchyard, War Memorial
Castle Bytham, St James, Churchyard, War Memorial
Castle Bytham, St James, Churchyard, War Memorial

"The war memorial is located in the churchyard of the Grade I listed St James's Church which dates to the late C12.

The sIate tablet is inscribed with the names of the men of the parish who lost their lives in the Second World War, although the memorial itself appears to be older and was possibly originally erected after the First World War"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1396595 

DB 6 April 2019

Castle Bytham, War Memorial
Castle Bytham, St James, grotesque
Castle Bytham, St James, grotesque
Castle Bytham, St James, grotesque

Label stop or grotesque.

March 2017

Castle Bytham, St James, grotesque
Castle Bytham, St James, sundial
Castle Bytham, St James, sundial
Castle Bytham, St James, sundial

Sundial high on the south face of the tower.

March 2017

Castle Bytham, St James, sundial
Castle Bytham, St James, Tower
Castle Bytham, St James, Tower
Castle Bytham, St James, Tower

Viewed from the west. 

"3 stage early C13 tower has plinth, chamfered string courses, embattled parapet with cusped lozenge frieze and gargoyles.

Belfry stage has paired pointed lights with round headed shafted surround"

"In the west wall a blocked narrow opening and a lancet to each stage and a blank circular opening with octagonal ashlar surround"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360095 

DB 6 April 2019

Castle Bytham, Saint James, Tower