St Paul's Church, Carrington

St Paul’s Church at Carrington in Lincolnshire was erected just a year before our own chapel, in 1816. As a building belonging to the Church of England, it required a new law to have it built, the Fens Chapels Act, 1816 (though I am a little surprised that it was completed the same year as the Act which authorised it). According to the great Professor Pevsner, its architect was the wonderfully named Jeptha Pacey, who died in 1862; the name of our Salem’s architect remains unknown (assuming there was one).

The land about Carrington was only drained in the nineteenth century, so a new church was assembled hastily before the area succumbed to godlessness, or, even worse in the government’s eyes, nonconformity. While having a rather plain, even austere exterior, it has a few pointed windows at its side, a gentle nod to the growing revival of the gothic style which the more fashionable places were starting to employ.

I wonder how St Paul’s at Carrington fares? How does it compare to its distant cousin at Martin Top? If faithful to scripture we both are, then we be brethren, and around the Throne our congregations shall meet.