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Parish Church of Saint John the Baptist
The Church of St John the Baptist which dates back to the 1052 and has a replica of Julian's Bower on the floor of the south porch and in the chancel window. John Oldrid Scott restored the church in the late 1880's & was partly rebuilt by Thomas a Becket's murderers. It is home to a functioning Harrison clock.

Alkborough
Scunthorpe
North Lincolnshire
DN15 9JF

The church of St John the Baptist is an ancient edifice of stone in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing a clock and 3 bells, on the second of which is the inscription-

IESU FOR YI MODIR SAKE
SAVE ALL YE SAVLS THAT ME GART MAKE


The font is Norman: the church was restored and reseated in oak and the chancel rebuilt in 1887 at a cost of £1,400: there are 220 sittings. The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Whitton, net yearly value £250, including 117 acres of glebe, with residence, erected in 1871 at a cost of £2,000, in the alternate gift of the Bishop of Lincoln and J. Goulton-Constable esq. and held since 1883 by the Rev Benjamin Hunter BA of the University of London. The tithes of Alkborough were amongst the earliest endowments of the monastery of Spalding when founded by the Sheriff Thorold in 1052, and it was probably at this time that the church was built.....[Entry from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900] 


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