St Andrew's, Epworth

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  St Mary the Virgin

  Welcome to St Mary's Church, West Butterwick

  Welcome to St Mary's Church. We aim to be a welcoming, friendly and inclusive parish church serving the people of the North Lincolnshire village of West Butterwick and also the many visitors who come to our village. Our chief aims are to love God and one another through our worship together and through active service as Christian disciples within our community and the world, to 'know Jesus and make him known'.

  Details of our services and other activities can be found on this site and we look forward to welcoming you whether you come from round the corner or across the world to know of God's love and to share that with others.

  St Mary's West Butterwick is a Victorian Church which was originally a chapel-of-ease of St Martin's Owston Ferry. It has a particularly fine East window which was restored in 2008 and is now fully visible for the first time in forty years. West Butterwick is on the west side of the Trent south of Scunthorpe. It stands next to the Church of England Primary school which has strong links with the church.

  The West Butterwick church of St. Mary the Virgin was erected in 1841. It consists of a nave and square tower with a single bell. In 1879 the interior had been refitted by the Reverend D. J. White at a cost of about £160. The churchyard was given to the church in 1875 by Sir Robert Sheffield. The Sheffield family were the chief landowners of West Butterwick and lived at Normanby Hall near Scunthorpe. The associated vicarage was built in 1863 by James Fowler of Louth who was well known as a church architect. A stained-glass window by William Wailes representing scriptural subjects was inserted in memory of the parents of William Maws Trousdale. Trousedale worked in the village as a general surgeon. The chancel windows depict the arms of the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Lincoln and others who contributed to the church. An earlier chapel was founded in West Butterwick in 1415 by William de Lodyngton. It was pulled down in the 17th Century and the stone was used for the South Ferriby sluice as well as the foundations of the new school.

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  St Pancras

  Welcome to St Pancras Church, Wroot

  Welcome to St Pancras Church. We aim to be a welcoming, friendly and inclusive parish church serving the people of the North Lincolnshire village of Wroot and also the many pilgrims and visitors who come from all over the world because of our part in nurturing the Methodist revival of the eighteenth century. Our chief aims are to love God and one another through our worship together and through active service as Christian disciples within our community and the world, to 'know Jesus and make him known'.

  Details of our services and other activities can be found on this site and we look forward to welcoming you whether you come from round the corner or across the world to know of God's love and to share that with others.

  Below is a little information about our church building and its history.

  St Pancras Wroot was rebuilt in the late 1870's but a church has stood on this site for many centuries. In the 1720's the incumbent was the Reverend Samuel Wesley of Epworth and for a time his son John served as his curate looking after Wroot. A modern stone commemorates this link at the entrance to the large open churchyard. It is thought that two of John's sisters are buried in the churchyard but their graves are not marked. St Pancras claims the second oldest bell in the Diocese of Lincoln. Because of the Wesley connection St Pancras attracts pilgrims from all over the world and there are framed pictures giving the history of the Church inside. St Pancras is now the only church in the village.

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