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The Grade II Listed St Helens Church on the edge of Boultham Park, at 37 Hall Drive in Boultham, Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
The original church built on the site is mentioned when Gilbert of Ghent, a nephew of William the Conqueror, endowed newly founded Bardney Abbey with the Manor or Estate of Boultham amongst many others. Gilbert’s grandson, Robert, Earl of Lincoln, gave the care of the church and the appointment of a Rector to the Abbott and Convent of Bardney.
In 1864 the current St Helens Church was built by the Ellison family of Boultham Hall, by architect Michael Drury to replace the original medieval church. Dressed stone and ashlar with slate roofs and a side wall stack. Nave with western bellcote, and chancel. The nave extended and restored in 1887 by architect C Hodgson Fowler, with new spired turret and seating. The contractor was W Cowper of Campsall near Doncaster, and the reopening was held in November 1887. The present church contains some elements of the medieval church, such as a 13th-century blocked arcade containing stiff leaf capitals and octagonal pier with detached shafts, double chamfered arches under hoodmoulds with sculpted terminals.
The cemetery was extended to more than an acre in 1928, funded by public subscription. When Boultham Hall estate became a public park, Boultham Park, the church was still used publicly, but its functions were mostly taken over by the new Holy Cross Church in 1940. There are occasional services, such as weddings, funerals and a Christmas Carol Service. The churchyard contains a granite memorial, from the fortifications of Sebastopol during the Crimean War. The inscription reads "Brought from Sevastopol and placed here by Major R G Ellison, in memory of the men of his company 47th Regt who fell in the Crimean War".
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The Grade II Listed St Helens Church on the edge of Boultham Park, at 37 Hall Drive in Boultham, Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
The original church built on the site is mentioned when Gilbert of Ghent, a nephew of William the Conqueror, endowed newly founded Bardney Abbey with the Manor or Estate of Boultham amongst many others. Gilbert’s grandson, Robert, Earl of Lincoln, gave the care of the church and the appointment of a Rector to the Abbott and Convent of Bardney.
In 1864 the current St Helens Church was built by the Ellison family of Boultham Hall, by architect Michael Drury to replace the original medieval church. Dressed stone and ashlar with slate roofs and a side wall stack. Nave with western bellcote, and chancel. The nave extended and restored in 1887 by architect C Hodgson Fowler, with new spired turret and seating. The contractor was W Cowper of Campsall near Doncaster, and the reopening was held in November 1887. The present church contains some elements of the medieval church, such as a 13th-century blocked arcade containing stiff leaf capitals and octagonal pier with detached shafts, double chamfered arches under hoodmoulds with sculpted terminals.
The cemetery was extended to more than an acre in 1928, funded by public subscription. When Boultham Hall estate became a public park, Boultham Park, the church was still used publicly, but its functions were mostly taken over by the new Holy Cross Church in 1940. There are occasional services, such as weddings, funerals and a Christmas Carol Service. The churchyard contains a granite memorial, from the fortifications of Sebastopol during the Crimean War. The inscription reads "Brought from Sevastopol and placed here by Major R G Ellison, in memory of the men of his company 47th Regt who fell in the Crimean War".