About Us

Our church is one of eleven churches dedicated to Saint Guthlac who lived as a hermit on an island in the fens. The Church is a fragment of a much larger building; the process by which it has arrived at its present plan is somewhat obscure. The Church dates from the 11th Century; the tower is the oldest part of the building. The Church consists of a chancel 20ft 6in. by 18ft 6in., a nave 36ft 6in. of the same width as the chancel and the western tower 10ft 6in. square within the walls. The tower is almost certainly the central tower of a cruciform church, which in the early part of the fifteenth century was brought approximately to its present use as a western tower. The south transept was certainly retained at this time, and there was a building of some sort on the north side of the tower also.

The Church has undergone many changes over the centuries and it is difficult to trace its history. It still has a two-decker pulpit and some box pews, In the Chancel floor there are four slabs with inscriptions to children of Thomas and Elizabeth Cokayne of Astwick 1657-8, and there are also several modern monuments ranging from 1823 to 1866 to the Fossey Family. There is one bell in the Western Tower.

Rev'd Jane Wheatley holds a Communion Service every 1st Sunday of the month at 11.15am