Holbeach Hurn
| Holbeach Hurn | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 St Luke's Church, Holbeach Hurn | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF394270 |
| Location: | 52°49’23"N, -0°4’7"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Spalding |
| Postcode: | PE12 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Holland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Holland and The Deepings |
Holbeach Hurn is a small fenland village in Holland, the south-eastern part of Lincolnshire. It is two and a half miles north-east of its parent village, Holbeach and a mile north of the A17. To the north-west is Holbeach Marsh.
In 1885 Kelly's Directory noted the village as an ecclesiastical parish formed from that of Holbeach in 1870, and the presence of both a Wesleyan and a Primitive Methodist chapel. The area of the parish was 3,250 acres with an 1881 population of 526.[1]
The village church, dedicated to St Luke, was built between 1869 and 1871. It is constructed of red brick in the Early English style and consists of chancel, nave and south porch, and an alabaster reredos with evangelistic symbols.[1] In 1964 Pevsner reported a bellcote and lancet windows, and within the church a large early 19th-century painting of the Adoration of the Shepherds, "no doubt the altarpiece of an important church".[2]
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- Information on Holbeach from GENUKI
- Holbeach Hurn: Village Hall, Holbeachhurn.org.uk
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 477
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1964; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09620-0page 575