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Previous to this church stood The Old Mission Church, an iron building formerly situated in Burton by Lincoln having 'recently been used as an infant school and purchased for £30 in 1897'.

So small in fact it doesn’t appear on some of the larger scale maps, the brick church of St Peter sits peacefully on the hillside of this rural hamlet.

St Peter & St Paul isfirst mentioned in the Domesday Book and is primarily 14th century, restored by James Fowler in 1866 and 1889.

Nestled within a secluded fold of the Lincolnshire Wolds, offering beautiful views of surrounding farmland.

The current Grade II Listed grey stone church, dedicated to St John the Baptist, was designed during the Georgian era by Thomas Berry of Gainsborough between 1794-95 after the previous 14th century church fell.

A lovely village church with interesting features to be discovered including early 14th century stained glass depicting three medieval family shields of the Percy, Umfraville and Beaumont families.

St Helen’s sits proud in the centre of this modest Lincolnshire village but in the nearby hills and fields lies a wealth of history including bronze age barrows and Roman roads.

Beautiful Lincolnshire church with an unusual claim, it has a peal of bells named after it!

The present church was built in red brick with greenstone and slate in 1857 by Maugham and Fowler and replaced the original chalk and thatch building.

Enter through the timber framed porch to discover an interesting mix of Norman, Georgian and Victorian architecture.