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Wrawby, Post Mill (1)
Wrawby, Post Mill (1)
Wrawby, Post Mill (1)

There has been a mill on this site for over 400 years.

The present mill was rebuilt in 1832 and refurbished in 1965.

Jon Sass Collection, photograph c.1886


Wrawby, post mill, Jon Sass
Wrawby, Post Mill (2)
Wrawby, Post Mill (2)
Wrawby, Post Mill (2)

Wrawby Mill (TA 026088) was built in the mid-to late-18th century as an open trestle mill, the roundhouse being added in the early 19th century.

In this form, it continued as a working wind-powered mill until 1940.

It was restored to working order in the 1960s, it is now open to the public on several days each year.

Wrawby Mill is the only surviving postmill in Lincolnshire.

F Robinson, 2010


Wrawby, post mill
Wrawby, Post Mill (3)
Wrawby, Post Mill (3)
Wrawby, Post Mill (3)

A photo of Lincolnshire's last surviving post mill following restoration in 1965.

There had been a mill on this site from at least the sixteenth century; the present structure dates from 1832.

Postcard from David Robinson Collection, undated

Wrawby, post mill
Wrawby, Post Mill (4)
Wrawby, Post Mill (4)
Wrawby, Post Mill (4)

There has been a mill on this site for over 400 years.

The present mill was rebuilt in 1832 and refurbished in 1965.

Location of mill: TA 026 088

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

Wrawby, post mill, Peter Kirk
Wrawby, St Mary
Wrawby, St Mary
Wrawby, St Mary

St Mary's has a thirteenth century tower. The chancel was rebuilt in c.1800 and restored in 1869 by William White.

Peter Kirk Collection, 1993

Wrawby, St Mary, William White
Wrawby, St Mary
Wrawby, St Mary
Wrawby, St Mary

Wrawby church near Brigg.

Undated (but pre-WW1) postcard by Hartmann.

Wrawby,
Wrawby, St Mary
Wrawby, St Mary
Wrawby, St Mary

View of St Mary's from the south-east.

Unusually the most easterly window in the fourteenth century clerestory is larger than the others. Pevsner suggests this was to provide better lighting for the rood between the nave and the chancel.

April 2018

Wrawby, St Mary
Wrawby, St Mary
Wrawby, St Mary
Wrawby, St Mary

North-west view from the main village street.

The tower is the oldest external element of the church, dating from the thirteenth century.

April 2018

Wrawby, St Mary
Wrawby, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Wrawby, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Wrawby, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

The foundation stone for this chapel, built by the Wesleyan Methodists in Vicarage Road, was laid in 1885. A Sunday school room was added in 1890.

The last service was held in 2005.

April 2018

Wrawby, Methodist Chapel Wesleyan
Wrawby, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Wrawby, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Wrawby, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

"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 :-

"i) A Society was formed circa 1764 and the first chapel erected in 1827. It was sold in 1890 after the opening of the new chapel.

ii) The foundation stone for a new chapel, in Vicarage Road, was laid on the 14.7.1885 and the chapel opened on the 13.9.1885.

A Sunday school was added in 1890.

The chapel was renovated in 1965. ready for the merger with the Brigg Road congregation, and is still in use with a membership of 17"

Unfortunately the chapel closed in 2005. 

Geoff Swain Collection 18 October 1993

Wrawby, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, church