Holbeach Hurn is a small fenland village in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

Holbeach Holbeach is a market town and civil parish in the South Holland District in Lincolnshire, England. The town lies from Spalding; from Boston; from King's Lynn; from Peterborough; and by road from Lincoln. It is on the junction of the ...

in the

South Holland South Holland ( nl, Zuid-Holland ) is a province of the Netherlands with a population of over 3.7 million as of October 2021 and a population density of about , making it the country's most populous province and one of the world's most densely ...

district of southern

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

, England. It is north-east from Holbeach and north from the A17, and lies at the south-east of

Holbeach Marsh Holbeach Marsh is a The Fens, fenland area in the South Holland, England, South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. Holbeach Marsh is situated between the market town of Holbeach on the A17 road (England), A17 road at the south, and The ...

HOLBEACH HURN STREET NO LATER THAN 1916 PER STAMP

Holbeach Hurn appears as the one word 'Holbechehern' in a legal record of 1433. Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP40/689; image at: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no689/aCP40no689fronts/IMG_0294.htm (4th entry from the bottom, second line In 1885 '' Kelly’s'' noted the village as an

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formed from that of Holbeach in 1870, and the presence of both a

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and

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chapel. Its area was with an 1881 population of 526.''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 477 The village church, dedicated to

St Luke Luke the Evangelist (Latin: '' Lucas''; grc, Λουκᾶς, '' Loukâs''; he, לוקאס, ''Lūqās''; arc, /ܠܘܩܐ לוקא, ''Lūqā’; Ge'ez: ሉቃስ'') is one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of t ...

, was built between 1869 and 1871. It is constructed of red brick in Early English style and consists of

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nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

and south

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, and an

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reredos A reredos ( , , ) is a large altarpiece, a screen, or decoration placed behind the altar in a church. It often includes religious images. The term ''reredos'' may also be used for similar structures, if elaborate, in secular architecture, for ex ...

with

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symbols. In 1964 ''Pevsner'' reported a

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and lancet windows, and within the church a large early 19th-century painting of the Adoration of the Shepherds, "no doubt the

altarpiece An altarpiece is an artwork such as a painting, sculpture or relief representing a religious subject made for placing at the back of or behind the altar of a Christian church. Though most commonly used for a single work of art such as a painting o ...

of an important church".

Pevsner, Nikolaus Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (19 ...

; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' p. 575; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press.

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