The Building

Horbling is a Lincolnshire village, situated on the edge of the fens, just north of Billingborough. There has been a settlement here for many hundreds of years — the name itself points to a community that arrived with the first wave of Anglo-Saxon invaders in the late fifth or early sixth century.

We have no record of when the first church was built, but by 1086, when the Domesday Book was compiled, the entry for Horbelinge lists a church (unlike neighbouring Billingborough, who only had half a church!) and two mills. It is a fine Grade 1 listed building with many interesting features, not least the varying angles seen in the tower and some of the pillars.