Generally agreed to be one of the finest churches in Lincolnshire, St Helen's was already in the front rank before the Victorian architect GF Bodley added a sumptuous chancel, with painted vault and lavishly gilded reredos, in his late 19th century restoration. Bodley worked closely with the rector of the time, Canon F Sutton, who made the stained glass himself.
His nephew, who followed him as Rector, installed the beautifully painted font cover in his memory, in 1889.