Holbeach St Marks
| Holbeach St Marks | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Holbeach St Marks | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF377312 |
| Location: | 52°51’41"N, -0°2’41"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Spalding |
| Postcode: | PE12 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Holland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Holland and The Deepings |
Holbeach St Marks is a fenland village in Holland, the south-eastern part of Lincolnshire. It is four miles north of its parent village, Holbeach, three miles from The Wash, and at the centre of Holbeach Marsh.
The village church is dedicated to St Mark, and was built to the designs of Ewan Christian in 1868-69. In 1964 Pevsner mentioned that it was almost a copy of Christian’s Christ Church, the church at Gedney Dawsmere four miles to the east. It is constructed of red brick with stone bands, a brick-faced interior, lancet windows, and a combined nave and apse. The slate roof holds a bellcote.[1]
The village school is the Holbeach St Mark's Church of England Primary School.
Holbeach St Marks was home to the Tinsley Food plant, a major county employer supplying Safeway and Marks and Spencer. In 2001 it closed its factory with the loss of 850 jobs.[2]
Outside links
 |
("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Holbeach St Marks) |
- Information on Holbeach from GENUKI
- Crowhurst, Richard; A Short History of Holbeach St Marks
References
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1964; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09620-0page 575
- ↑ “Workers stunned by factory closure”, BBC News, 19 September 2001. Retrieved 27 October 2001