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Dist:0.4km<br/>Alford can be seen in the distance and the next square east.
©Michael Patterson
Dist:0.4km<br/>James Fowler's 1863 Neo-Norman polychrome brick interior of St.James' church http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/770520
©Richard Croft
Dist:0.4km<br/>Re-used early Norman (early 12th century) arch to the vestry in St.James' church
©Richard Croft
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Victorian parishioners of Rigsby commissioned James Fowler to design a new church in the style of their old one .... the result was an unusual but pleasing Neo-Norman church completed in 1863. As far as I know, Fowler's only non-Gothic revival church in Lincolnshire ?
©Richard Croft
Dist:0.4km<br/>Octagonal 15th century font with panels of two tiers of cusped arches
©Richard Croft
Dist:0.4km<br/>Neo-Norman church by James Fowler in 1863
©Richard Croft
Dist:0.4km<br/>Fifteenth century sword and helmet discovered in a tomb in the churchyard of St.James' church in the 19th century, now placed above the vestry arch http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/770542
©Richard Croft
Dist:0.4km<br/>The reredos - Reredos - An ornamental screen, usually carved or painted, covering the wall at the back of the altar (altarpiece). In this case, mosaic tiles.
©Dave Hitchborne
Dist:0.4km<br/>Flowers on the altar.
©Dave Hitchborne
Dist:0.4km<br/>The church altar. Altar/Altar Stone/Altar Table/Altar Tomb - A flat-topped piece of furniture consecrated for the celebration of the Eucharist. As Altar Tomb - Monument used for an altar.
©Dave Hitchborne
Dist:0.4km<br/>The aumbry. Aumbry - A cupboard or recess in which are stored the sacred vessels used for the administration of Holy Communion, or which once contained holy relics.
©Dave Hitchborne
Dist:0.4km<br/>The apse roof. Apse - Semi-circular or polygonal end of a chancel or chapel; generally at the eastern end. Usually Norman in an ancient church.
©Dave Hitchborne
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking from the nave, through to the apsidal chancel.
©Dave Hitchborne
Dist:0.4km<br/>Altar rail with zig-zag carving. - Altar Rail - A low balustrade enclosing the altar. Note the colourful floor tiles.
©Dave Hitchborne
Dist:0.4km<br/>The present church was designed by James Fowler of Louth and was built of Ancaster stone in 1863, at a cost of £685. All the labourers, in the Parish of Rigsby with Ailby, contributed a week’s wages. It replaces a chalk walled and thatched roofed structure supported by props as shown in an early picture. The inner portions of the doorway of the west front and the arch from the nave to the vestry are remnants of the original Norman building, which was built by the Rigsby family sometime prior to 1086. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/830228
©Dave Hitchborne

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