Holbeach Hurn is a small fenland village in the civil parish of Holbeach in the South Holland district of southern Lincolnshire, England. It is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north-east from Holbeach and 1 mile (1.6 km) north from the A17, and lies at the south-east of Holbeach Marsh.
| Holbeach Hurn | |
|---|---|
 St Luke's Church, Holbeach Hurn | |
  Holbeach Hurn Location within Lincolnshire | |
| OS grid reference | TF394270 |
| • London | 95 mi (153 km) S |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Spalding |
| Postcode district | PE12 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Holbeach Hurn appears as the one word 'Holbechehern' in a legal record of 1433.[1] In 1885 Kelly’s noted the village as an ecclesiastical parish formed from that of Holbeach in 1870, and the presence of both a Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapel. Its area was 3,250 acres (13.2 km2) with an 1881 population of 526.[2]
The village church, dedicated to St Luke, was built between 1869 and 1871. It is constructed of red brick in Early English style and consists of chancel, nave and south porch, and an alabaster reredos with evangelistic symbols.[2] 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".[3]
References edit
- ^ Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP40/689; image at: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no689/aCP40no689fronts/IMG_0294.htm (4th entry from the bottom, second line
- ^ a b Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 477
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire p. 575; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09620-8
External links edit
Media related to Holbeach Hurn at Wikimedia Commons- Holbeach, Genuki. Retrieved 26 October 2011
- Holbeach Hurn: Village Hall, Holbeachhurn.org.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2011
