Gosberton Clough
| Gosberton Clough | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Methodist Church, Gosberton Clough | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF201297 |
| Location: | 52°51’7"N, 0°12’60"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Spalding |
| Postcode: | PE11 |
| Dialling code: | 01775 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Holland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Holland and The Deepings |
Gosberton Clough is a village in the parish of Gosberton in Holland, the south-eastern part of Lincolnshire. It is thirty miles south-east of the county town, the City of Lincoln, five miles north of the nearest large town, Spalding, and three miles west of parish village, Gosberton.
Gosberton Clough and the village Risegate to the east are conjoined as a linear settlement two miles long on the east to west B1397 road which runs along the south side of Risegate Eau (drain). Within Gosberton Clough the B1397 is named 'Clough Road', and in Risegate, 'Risegate Road', the villages separated at a bridge over the Risegate Eau at the junction with Chesboule Lane, running north, and Beach Lane, running south. The B1397 and the village is mirrored at the north of Risegate Eau by the parallel 'Siltside' (road). The Risegate Eau starts 2 miles (3 km) west at the South Forty-Foot Drain, then flows through the village, and reaches the River Welland at the Risegate Outfall sluice in Algarkirk Marsh, seven miles to the east. The north to south Hammond Beck intersects Risegate Eau at the west of the village, alongside of which is Beck Bank (road).
Churches
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The Parish Church is St Gilbert and St Hugh. It has an associated church hall. The church dates from 1902, when it was built by William Bucknall and Ninian Comper. It is a Grade II listed building, described as a chapel of ease. Its construction is of timber framing on a brick plinth. The church comprises a nave with bellcote, a chancel, vestry and south porch.
A restoration of the church was begun in 2001.[1][2]
In the church are four gilded wooden angels, carved and donated by Belgian refugees during the First World War. Their restoration, by Will Kirk, was shown in an episode of the BBC Television programme The Repair Shop in April 2020.[3][4][5]
The village formerly also has a Primitive Methodist chapel.[6] The current Methodist church is the Centenary Methodist Church.
About the village
On Siltside are two village farms, a motorsports' shop, and, at the west end of Siltside where the road turns north to become Beck Bank.
In 1872 Gosberton Clough was described as containing a mission room, which was built in 1858 and enlarged in 1861. The only trade listed at the time was a blacksmith.[7]
At the south of Gosberton Clough on Beck Bank is 'Bank House', of two-storey and five bays, Grade II listed as c.1830 with some 20th-century alterations. At the time of listing in 1988 it was an old people's home.[8]
A further Grade II property is Rigbolt House on Beck Bank a mile south of the village. The house dates to the 16th century, with alterations in the 18th, 19th and 20th. The current house is mid-Georgian of two-storeys and three bays in T-plan, and of red brick laid in Flemish bond, with slate roof. The house was formerly a moated cell of the Gilbertine Order.[9][10] Rigbolt House is today part of a farm; in the 19th-century was part of a then Gosberton hamlet of Rigbolt.[7]
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References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1146623: Church of St Gilbert and St Hugh (Grade II listing)
- ↑ 'St Gilbert & St Hugh Church': Gosberton, Quadring & District Community
- ↑ "Gosberton Clough 'Angels' to be on BBC1's The Repair Shop TONIGHT!". https://www.lincoln.anglican.org/news/gosberton-clough-angels-to-be-on-bbc1s-the-repair-shop-tonight. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
- ↑ "TV's The Repair Shop breathes new life into Gosberton Clough's historic carved angels" (in en). Spalding Today. 14 April 2020. https://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/news/a-project-from-this-south-holland-church-features-on-bbc-ones-the-repair-shop-this-wednesday-april-15-9106170/. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
- ↑ The Repair Shop, Series 6, Episode 5: BBC Television
- ↑ Gooberton (Gosberton) Clough: My Primitive Methodists
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire (1872), p.795, 796
- ↑ National Heritage List 1064464: Bank House (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1064459: Rigbolt House (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1964; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09620-0page 312
