Thorganby, Lincolnshire

Thorganby

All Saints, Thorganby
Thorganby

 Thorganby shown within Lincolnshire
OS grid reference TF209976
District West Lindsey
Shire county Lincolnshire
Region East Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Postcode district DN37 0
Police Lincolnshire
Fire Lincolnshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK Parliament Gainsborough
List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire

Thorganby is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire. England. It is located about 9 miles (14 km) north east of the town of Market Rasen in the Lincolnshire Wolds a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The parish church is a grade II listed building dedicated to All Saints. Built using ironstone, limestone and red brick, It dates from the 13th century although it was almost completely rebuilt in 1900. It retains its 13th-century font.[1]

Thorganby Hall is a grade II listed small country house, built of limestone and red brick in 1648 with early 19th-century additions.[2] It was built to replace an earlier Hall which was the seat of the Willoughby family, plundered by the Roundheads during the English Civil War in 1643.[3]

Thorganby CE School was built in 1868 as a National School. It closed in March 1959.[4]

References

  1. ^ "All Saints, Thorganby". National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1063481. Retrieved 16 August 2011. 
  2. ^ "Thorganby Hall". National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1359758. Retrieved 16 August 2011. 
  3. ^ "Old Hall, Thorganby". National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=353282&sort=4&search=all&criteria=Thorganby,%20Lincolnshire&rational=q&recordsperpage=30. Retrieved 16 August 2011. 
  4. ^ "Thorganby CE School". Lincs to the Past. Lincolnshire Archives. http://www.lincstothepast.com/THORGANBY-CE-SCHOOL/716353.record?pt=S. Retrieved 16 August 2011.