NOVEMBER 2010:
St Andrew, APLEY, St Edward the Confessor, BARLINGS and St Hugh, LANGWORTH
Our
first church for our November meeting was Apley St Andrew which is
believed to be the smallest such building in Lincolnshire still in
use. We were greeted by Rita and her husband with a hot drink
and biscuits. We were very impressed with the way in which the
church is maintained. The font here was particularly
interesting being one of a small number of miniature replicas of that
in St Mary Magdalene church Oxford.
Apley above
We
then moved on to St Edward’s parish church Barlings and found a
building of contrasting styles with fragments of Norman, medieval
rebuilt in 1876. A rather strange looking building!
Our
final church was St Hugh’s Langworth. By the early 1960s it was
felt that the small corrugated iron Mission Church should be replaced
and in 1960-2 much of the chapel from Walmsgate Hall, Louth was
rebuilt here. The chapel had been built in 1901 as a memorial to
the son of Thomas Yorke Dallas-Yorke. The plan of the chapel was
retained but lengthened by one bay. The memorial plaque over the
entrance to the chancel has a relief of the young man as a soldier.
There is much of interest here and the church is well worth a visit.
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