All Saints, was originally built in the 12th and 13th century, when the population of the Wolds was considerably greater.
Great Sturton, Lincolnshire
As the population declined the building was gradually reduced in size and its exterior and interior walls show evidence of a lost north aisle, a west tower and the truncation of the chancel. It is a grade II* listed building standing proud in the tiny hamlet of Great Sturton.
You enter the church through a tiny brick porch sheltering a Norman door into a spacious nave. Long neglected, the church was restored in 1904 by JT Micklethwaite and the west end of the church is taken up with the enormous and impressive frame of the Micklethwaite's tiny bell cote, which he built from reused timbers probably brought from elsewhere. He installed new windows to blend in with the existing medieval and post medieval windows.
On the north wall within this framework are the remains of an early 17th century mural painting supposed to represent time and death. The figure of death is obvious, but the rest is fairly unintelligible.
Baumber, Lincolnshire
An unusual and fascinating church, effectively a medieval church encased in a Georgian red brick shell in 1758, St Swithins still holds many treasures inside its walls and the trouble taken to obtain the key and open the Norman west door is well worth the effort.
Hemingby, Lincolnshire
The first view one has of the village is that of the tower of the greenstone church of St Margaret with its dominating red clock. Created in 1787 by horologist Edmund Howard, the long drop clock is truly a remarkable piece of engineering.
Hatton, Lincolnshire
Built of local red brick with stone banding from the previous church on the same spot, St Stephen includes a beautiful rounded apse with stained glass windows at the east end.
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