Marshchapel

Marshchapel, Giddy's Mill (1)

This three-storey mill in Mill Lane was built in 1835 on the site of a post mill.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Marshchapel, Giddy's Mill, windmill, Jon Sass

Marshchapel, Giddy's Mill (2)

This mill had four sails and three stones.

Location of mill: TF 362 993

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

Marshchapel, windmill, Giddy's Mill, Peter Kirk

Marshchapel, saltern

Low mounds, scattered over several square miles in this part of the Marsh, are the ploughed over spoil heaps of an earlier salt industry (by the evaporation of sea water).

Individual "salterns", like this one, can be identified with those shown on a Marshchapel parish map of 1595.

Frank Robinson, November 2013

Marshchapel, saltern, salt extraction

Marshchapel, St Mary

St Mary's is a grand Marshland church, with an imposing tower, aisled nave with clerestory and chancel.

The entire building dates from the 15th century, built with wealth from the local salt industry.

September 2012

Marshchapel, St Mary, salt industry

Marshchapel, St Mary

Typical windows of the Perpendicular style are found in both aisles and chancel.

Those in the aisles have 3 lights; the chancel windows have 4.

June 2015

Marshchapel, St Mary church

Marshchapel, St Mary

St Mary's tower is faced in ashlar limestone.

It is supported - or rather decorated - by pairs of long angled buttresses.

There is a fine 4-light Perpendicular window in the west wall of the tower.

June 2015

Marshchapel, St Mary church

Marshchapel, St Mary

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1937 states :-

"The church of St. Mary is a building of stone in the Late Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, chantry chapel, south porch and an embattled western tower with seven crocketed pinnacles, and an angle turret with spirelet containing 3 bells:

the chancel is divided from the nave by a beautiful oak screen, which has been restored:

the font is octagonal, and has a carved pyramidal cover:

near the communion table is a monument with kneeling figures to Walter Harpham, his wife and daughter, 1617:

in the nave is a memorial window to Joseph Hewson esq. and Mary Ann his wife:

a new roof was put on the nave in 1845, at a cost of £300:

an oak roof was also put on the north aisle in 1848, and in the same year the chancel was rebuilt at a cost of about £580, defrayed by the Rev. A. Floyer, then rector and patron:

in 1864 the nave was reseated with massive carved oak benches, and in 1881 a beautifully carved oak pulpit was erected at a cost of £200:

there are 489 sittings.

The first date legible in the register is 25th January, 1589 ; there are some entries for a few years before that date, but the dates, if written, have been long since obliterated.

The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £350, with residence, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1922 by the Rev. William Henry Bead M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge"

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Marshchapel, Saint Mary, church

Marshchapel, St Mary, Ayscough Floyer

Monument to Revd. Ayscough Floyer (1821-1872) in the chancel.

The Post Office Directory of Lincolnshire 1868 states :-

"The living is a perpetual curacy, of the yearly value of £220, in the gift of, and held by, the Rev. Ayscoghe Floyer, M.A., of Wadham College, Oxford"

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Marshchapel, Saint Mary, church, Ayscough Floyer

Marshchapel, St Mary, Ayscough Floyer

Picture of Revd. Ayscough Floyer (1821-1872) displayed in the church.

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"Wadham Floyer, Esq., and the Rev. Ayscoghe Floyer, are impropriators of the rectory, and the latter is also patron and incumbent of the perpetual curacy, now valued at £222.

The tithes were commuted in 1840 for £850 per annum, one-fourth of which is paid to the incumbent, and three-fourths to the impropriators"

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Marshchapel, Saint Mary, church, Ayscough Floyer

Marshchapel, St Mary, Ayscough Floyer

"During his time at Marshchapel, Revd. Floyer was a great benefactor to the Parish.

He gave land so the School could be moved to its present central site. Before that the School was on Sheepmarsh Lane where it served both Northcotes and Marshchapel but was a good walk away from both.

He built Norman Cottage for the curate of the parish and commissioned the carving of all the pew ends poppy heads so individually executed by Thomas Swaby.

A contact is still maintained with his family. His descendants gave the new gates which were dedicated in 2003

His grave is No. 19 in the Churchyard Trail"

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Marshchapel, Saint Mary, church, Ayscough Floyer

Marshchapel, St Mary, Chancel

Marshchapel, St Mary church, chancel

Marshchapel, St Mary, Chancel

View across the sanctuary.

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1937 states that in 1848 " the chancel was rebuilt at a cost of about £580, defrayed by the Rev. A. Floyer, then rector and patron"

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Marshchapel, Saint Mary, church, chancel

Marshchapel, St Mary, Chancel

Looking west towards the C15 oak chancel screen and beyond into the nave.

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Marshchapel, Saint Mary, church

Marshchapel, St Mary, Chancel, monument

Alabaster tablet on the chancel wall, reading:

To the sacred memorie of / Walter Harpham Gent. & Ann his wife, whoe lived & / died in Gods feare & favour, he March the 23 1607 aged / 60 years, she March 15 1617 aged 76 & had issue / Alice married to Tho. Phillips Gent. who by him had / issue Willoughby whoe died childlese, and Eliz. / married to William Wesled Gent. & by him had issue / 7 sons & 3 daughters, and by Chr. Broxholme Gent. / her 2d husband had issue one sone , and died / July the 20 1628 aged 53 years.

June 2015

Marshchapel, St Mary church, monument, Harpham, Westled, Broxholme

Marshchapel, St Mary, Chancel, Roof

"the C19 chancel roof has angel corbels"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063124

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Marshchapel, Saint Mary, church

Marshchapel, St Mary, Chancel, Tiles

C19 encaustic tiles in the sanctuary.

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Marshchapel, Saint Mary, church, encaustic, tile

Marshchapel, St Mary, Churchyard Cross

"Churchyard cross. C14. Ashlar"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147898

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Marshchapel, Saint Mary, churchyard cross

Marshchapel, St Mary, doorway

Marshchapel, St Mary church, doorway

Marshchapel, St Mary, doorway

Marshchapel, St Mary church, doorway

Marshchapel, St Mary, doorway

Marshchapel, St Mary church, doorway

Marshchapel, St Mary, grotesque

This grotesque is just above the south porch.

September 2012

Marshchapel, St Mary, grotesque

Marshchapel, St Mary, interior

The interior of St Mary's is wide and spacious, well lit by the clerestory and the many fine Perpendicular windows, including the east window visible here.

September 2012

Marshchapel, St Mary