Church of St Mary

St Mary’s Church stands in Barton-upon-Humber, a town in North Lincolnshire. It is an Anglican parish church and a Grade I listed building. Archaeologists date the earliest visible parts to the 12th century. Beneath the arcades lie foundations that may belong to an earlier, possibly Saxon, chapel. An 1115 charter mentions an ‘All Saints’ Chapel’ on the same site. Most of the visible structure belongs to the Early English style. The church contains chancel monuments from 1626 and 1729. Its windows were made in the 14th and 15th centuries, with glass assembled in the 17th century. A restoration of the porch took place in 1938. A detailed study of the building appears in Rodwell and Atkins’s volume on St Peter’s Barton-upon-Humber. Visitors find a church whose architecture spans centuries. The arcades rest on ancient foundations. The windows show later medieval and early modern work. The chancel monuments mark important dates in local history. The porch, restored in the 20th century, completes the view.