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Parish
Church of Saint John the Baptist |
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The
Church of St John the Baptist which
dates back to the 1052 and has a
replica of Julian's Bower on the
floor of the south porch and in
the chancel window. John Oldrid
Scott restored the church in the
late 1880's & was
partly rebuilt by Thomas a Becket's
murderers. It is home to a functioning
Harrison clock.
Alkborough
Scunthorpe
North Lincolnshire
DN15
9JF
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The
church of St John the Baptist is an ancient
edifice of stone in mixed styles, consisting
of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch
and an embattled western tower with pinnacles
containing a clock and 3 bells, on the
second of which is the inscription-
IESU FOR YI MODIR SAKE
SAVE ALL YE SAVLS THAT ME GART MAKE
The
font is Norman: the church was restored
and reseated in oak and the chancel rebuilt
in 1887 at a cost of £1,400: there
are 220 sittings. The register dates from
the year 1538. The living is a vicarage,
annexed to Whitton, net yearly value £250,
including 117 acres of glebe, with residence,
erected in 1871 at a cost of £2,000,
in the alternate gift of the Bishop of
Lincoln and J. Goulton-Constable esq.
and held since 1883 by the Rev Benjamin
Hunter BA of the University of London.
The tithes of Alkborough were amongst
the earliest endowments of the monastery
of Spalding when founded by the Sheriff
Thorold in 1052, and it was probably at
this time that the church was built.....[Entry
from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900]
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