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A relic from a medieval past.

A historic church at the heart of an urban estate.

A church has stood on this site since pre Saxon times.

The church is made from a kaleidoscope of colours, greenstone, brick, limestone and red sandstone.

A picturesque Victorian neogothic church full of history and fascinating surprises, set in attractive wildflower gardens and within walking distance of the world heritage stone ruins of the original 11th century church.

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.

The small church of St Michael dates to at least the 12th century, with evidence of alteration in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries, plus a comprehensive restoration in 1860 under the direction of James Fowler, a church architect from Louth.

This delightful church is dedicated to St Alkmund, a prince of the Royal house of the Kingdom of Northumbria, born in about 770.

High Toynton is a ‘doubly thankful’ village, it is one of only 14 churches in the UK where all the men came back from both World Wars.

As you round the corner you are in for a great surprise, over the south porch is a lovely, if weathered, panel of Our Lady of Pity, one of the most popular images in late medieval English iconography.

Although there is mention of a church in Barnby Dun in the Domesday Book, the present building is mainly 14th century, although the tower is 13th century.

Well preserved medieval church, with some evidence of an even earlier church, which is full of references to the village history.