Former public house dated 1937.

Most recently used as an Indian restaurant, but is now closed, and being advertised for sale.

DB 17 May 2020

Saxilby is the only settlement of any size on the 10-mile long Foss Dyke canal between Torksey Lock on the Trent and Brayford Pool in Lincoln.

Throughout Saxilby's past industry and trade was focused here; now it is a popular mooring spot for leisure craft.

Rod Callow, 2009

In his "Brief Details of Chapels in The Lincoln Circuits" Revised October 2001 Colin Shepherdson states :-

"The Godfrey Memorial Church, in the High Street, was opened on the 21.3.1940 on a site opposite the old Wesleyan chapel.

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

DB 19 June 2018 

Dedication stone marking the substantial contribution to the building of the church made by George Godfrey of Churchfield House, Saxilby.

DB 19 June 2018 

The interior of the chapel, looking towards the sanctuary area.

The chapel closed for worship in August 2020 and was placed on the market for conversion to residential acommodation later that year.

Photo by Claire Danielle Oyitch

Former infants school now a private house. 

"A mixed National School was built in 1845 and an Infants' School built in 1871, together known as Saxilby National School in 1903.

The Infants' School and the Mixed or Upper School were managed by the same board of Managers, and were referred to as Departments in HMI reports by the 1920s.

Senior pupils were transferred to Sturton-by-Stow Secondary School in July 1961, and the Senior School was subsequently referred to as the Junior School.

The Junior and Infants' Schools were amalgamated under a single headmaster in 1962, although initially retaining the two buildings.

New school buildings were planned in the late 1960s"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplaySearchResults.aspx?oid=645107&mode=c&pageNo=6 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"Infants' built in 187I, for 80 children; Miss Lilian Lumb, mistress"

DB 19 June 2018 

The entry in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 reads "Mixed, erected in 1845, for 150 children, & enlarged in 1888, for 190; Henry Brunt, master"

Now Sunflowers Nursery School.

DB 17 May 2020

"NATIONAL SCHOOL ERECTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS AIDED BY GRANTS FROM THE NATIONAL SOCIETY AND THE PRIVY COUNCIL

ANNO. DOM. MMCCCXLV"

DB 17 May 2020

"House. C16 with C20 alterations and addition. Timber frame, mostly C20 externally ...

Internally, elements of the C16 3 bay plan are visible, with a wattle and daub panel in the former hall being the major survival ...

Also to first floor, 3 arched braces of the hall bays are visible"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064072 

DB 17 May 2020

Constructed following a typhoid outbreak in Lincoln 1904.

This pipe bridge was constructed to carry clean water from Elkesley, Nottinghamshire, across the Fossdyke Navigation, and on to Westgate Tower, Lincoln.

DB 19 June 2018

Bridge over the Foss Dyke Navigation

"The Foss Dyke, or Fossdyke, connects the River Trent at Torksey to Lincoln, the county town of Lincolnshire, and may be the oldest canal in England that is still in use"

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

DB 17 May 2020 

"It was built by The Great Northern Railway and opened in 1849"

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

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"a station on the Spalding and Doncaster section of the Great Northern and Great Eastern joint railway"

DB 19 June 2018

The signal box at Saxilby (SK 892753) was built in 1922 to replace an earlier one within the station limits.

It protects a public road to the south of the station and has a strong LNER style.

Stewart Squires, 2003

Road bridge carrying the A57 over the railway with a subsequent bridge over the Foss Dyke Navigation Canal.

Bypassed a former swing bridge. 

DB 17 May 2020

"THIS BY-PASS ROAD AND THE BRIDGES OVER THE RAILWAY AND THE FOSSDYKE WERE CONSTRUCTED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL AND WERE OPENED BY ALD. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD HEANAGE, D.L., O.B.E. CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNTY COUNCIL 15TH SEPTEMBER 1937"

DB 17 May 2020

Former Ship Inn now a private house.

DB 19 June 2018

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The Mission church of St. Andrew, near the railway station, was erected in 1879, from designs by Mr. Goddard, of Lincoln, at a cost of about £1,000, and has 200 sittings"

On the corner of Station Approach and High Street. 

Now a private house. 

DB 19 June 2018 

An earlier image of the church when is was in use as a youth club.

Geoff Swain Collection 12 June 1994

Viewed from the south side.

Geoff Swain Collection 12 June 1994

The impression is given of a Perpendicular church, though it has a Norman north doorway and Early English nave arcade.

There is a good Perpendicular rood screen.

Mark Acton, 2008

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of St. Botolph is an edifice of stone in the Perpendicular" style, consisting of double chancel, clerestoried nave, north aisle and an embattled western tower containing 4 bells :

in the north-east angle of the north chancel is a raised tomb with two recumbent figures of a knight and his lady, in white marble, sadly disfigured :

in 1886, the church, with the exception of the chancel, was reseated and new windows inserted, at a cost of £230:

in 1894 a new organ was erected at a cost of £320:

there are sittings for 250 persons"

DB 10 December 2018

"Parish church of St.Botolph. C12, C13, C15, 1819, 1908"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359490 

C15 east windows visible in this image with chancel to the left and north chapel to the right.

DB 10 December 2018

Church viewed from the north.

DB 10 December 2018

"In the south side of the chancel is a triple arched sedilia with pendent lozenges between the arches"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359490 

"The Santuary was restored in 1962 when a new altar rail and reredos were added"

http://www.saxilbyparishchurch.co.uk/History.htm 

DB 10 December 2018

"Stiles and upper tracery of the fine C15 chancel screen survive with crocketed ogees and panel tracery, the lower parts are restored"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359490 

Cross on the screen is a First World War memorial. 

DB 10 December 2018

C15 east window with glass dated 1890.

Showing Christ center with Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

DB 10 December 2018

"C15 octagonal bowl and stem with cusped shields to the sides of the bowl"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359490 

DB 10 December 2018

"C15 octagonal bowl and stem with cusped shields to the sides of the bowl"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359490 

DB 10 December 2018

Notice displayed near font detailing the heraldry.

The coats of arms seem to belong to families having connections with the D'Aubignys (or Daubeny) who were Lords of the Manor.

DB 10 December 2018

View looking east towards the chancel.

"C13 north arcade of 3 bays with quatrefoil piers and half round respond, all filleted.

Piers have annular capitals and responds, double chamfered arches"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359490 

DB 10 December 2018

View looking west towards the tower arch.

"The C13 tower arch is triple chamfered with square moulded imposts and triple responds"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359490 

The pews date from 1886. 

DB 10 December 2018

"North wall contains a C12 chamfered doorway with chamfered imposts"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359490 

DB 10 December 2018

"At the east end of the north aisle a moulded C15 4 centred arch leads into the former north chapel, now vestry"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359490 

DB 10 December 2018

North Chapel or Daubeney Chapel.

"In the Daubeney Chapel the altar now in use came from St. Peter-at-Gowts Church in Lincoln"

http://www.saxilbyparishchurch.co.uk/History.htm 

DB 10 December 2018

"In the north chapel is the Daubeny tomb of 1370:

alabaster effigy of knight and lady on an elaborately panelled tomb chest, the knight in plate armour with feet on a lion and she in a long dress, cloak and head dress with her feet on a dog"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359490 

DB 10 December 2018

"The fine organ is by W. Hill, London, 1894.

It has ten speaking stops, two manuals and pedals"

http://www.saxilbyparishchurch.co.uk/History.htm 

Kelly's Directory of lincolnshire 1919 states

"In 1894 a new organ was erected at a cost of £320"

DB 10 December 2018

C19 pulpit.

DB 10 December 2018

List of priests at Ingleby Chapel and Vicars of Saxilby displayed inside the tower.

Ingleby is a hamlet in the civil parish of Saxilby with Ingleby and at one time had its own chapel.

DB 10 December 2018

"3 stage tower rebuilt in 1908"

"West door also in a C13 style"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359490 

DB 10 December 2018

First and Second World War Memorials.

DB 10 December 2018

Originally the Masons Arms but subsequently renamed following arrival of the railway.

The entry in Kelly's Directory 1919 reads "Parr Albert Ernest. Station hotel"

Now a private house. 

DB 17 May 2020

The following are mentioned in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 :-

Ford Thomas, Sun P.H

Sewell Ben. Inchely, Railway hotel

Wheatley Jn.Ship P.H. & coal merchant

Whittaker John, Masons' Arms P.H

Also 

Bailey Joycey, beer retailer

DB 19 June 2018

The following are mentioned in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 :-

Gadsby Gervase, Anglers hotel

Horrocks Edward, Sun hotel

Harrison John, Ship inn ; good accommodation for anglers

Parr Albert Ernest. Station hotel

Also 

Watson Arthur F. beer retailer

DB 19 June 2018

Village sign and view along High Street.

DB 19 June 2018

In his "Brief Details of Chapels in The Lincoln Circuits" Revised October 2001 Colin Shepherdson states :-

Wesleyan Reform Union Chapel / Free Methodist Chapel / United Methodist Chapel

"i) A chapel opened on the 9.2.1851.

ii) A new chapel was opened in the High Street, at its junction with Syke Road, on the 18.5.1881.

It closed on the 11.1.1937 when the Society merged with the ex-Wesleyans in their chapel pending the erection of a new chapel.

The old chapel is now in use as the village hall"

Geoff Swain Collection 12 June 1994

This 4-sailed mill with five floors was built in 1823 and operated by wind power until 1927.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

For a few years from the late 1920s the mill was powered by oil engine.

Location of mill:  SK 892 748

Peter Kirk Collection, 1999