Our Churches

Christchurch, Pointon (also known as "The Mission") was built in 1893 to serve the village of Pointon - who only had a church on the Fen and St Andrews at Sempringham. A Bouton & Paul "flat-pack" structure of wood with corrugated iron cladding - both aisles have been completely rebuild in the last decade so that this "temporary" church building can continue to be central to village life.

The smallest church still in use in the county of Lincolnshire. It has 17th century altar rails in a barley sugar twist style and a medieval tub font.

12th Century St Andrew's has some of the finest medieval wall paintings in England dating from 1380. The delicately carved medieval rood screen was skilfully restored in 1964.

There has been a church on the site of the present church of St Andrew in Folkingham since the 12th century. The church we see now dates back to the 14th century (restorations were carried out in the 19th century). It has early Decorated style arcades, a mainly Early English chancel and a Norman pier where there was an opening into a chantry chapel. The church houses the remains of stocks and a whipping post.

The current church stands on a site of an earlier church that is recorded as far back as the Doomsday Book of 1087.

St Denys' Church is a Grade I listed building. The south doorway and font remain from the Norman church which stood during the reign of Henry I in the 1100s. The church is dedicated to St Denys (Dionysius, Denis in French), Bishop of Paris (273), patron of the Kings of France.

The church was dedicated in 1868 and is one of only two churches in England dedicated to St Lucia. The site of the previous church in the village is a registered ancient monument.

The church of St Mary & All Saints, Swarby is a grade II listed building dating from the 13th Century Restored in the 19th-century, the church has a Victorian flavour to it with the pews, the nave and the aisle roofs dating from that time.

The church of St. Nicholas is a grade 2 listed building and dates back to the 12th Century with additions and adaptations up to the 18th Century and restorations in 1899, 1907 and 1926.

Set in the heart of the second largest village within the parish, the church contains some original medieval carved pew ends plus Victorian copies.

The church is dedicated to St. Peter ad Vincula (St Peter in chains) and is at the centre of the village of Threekingham (sometimes Threckingham).

Aunsby church is dedicate to St Thomas of Canterbury and is a mixture of Norman and Perpendicular styles of architecture with Grade II* Listed building status. It was repaired and rebuilt in 1861. In the Domesday survey the village is called "Ounesbi".

The church of St Andrew's, known as Sempringham Abbey, stands in isolation on undulating ground overlooking fenland to the east.

Dowsby is the southern most village in our group of parishes, and also the smallest.

Horbling is situated on the edge of the fens, just north of Billingborough. The origins of the parish are based on agriculture and it continues to be a farming community.

The Church is situated in the centre of the village with its recessed spire soaring to 150 feet it is one of the tallest churches on the edge of the fens.

The Largely 14th Century Church of Saint James the Great, stands in the centre of the village of Aslackby and in many ways is a focal point of the village.