A service of worship is held on most Sunday mornings when everyone is welcome to attend. For details, see the Notice Board in the Square.

The church is always available for Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals. These events need to be organised with the Deanery office contact denise.bell@lincoln.anglican.org

Our main fundraiser is an annual, themed, Christmas Fayre and Christmas also sees a traditional carols and readings service, a ‘Christingle’ service in support of the Children’s Society and a Christmas Eve service.

The church, and churchyard, is maintained by a small group of volunteers and governed by a Parochial Church Council, currently of 10 members, which is responsible for the financial, legal, and spiritual governance of their parish. The PCC work with the clergy to promote the church's mission, maintain buildings, manage finances, and ensure safeguarding compliance. Members must act with care, prudence, and in the church';s best interests.

Help with any church/churchyard maintenance and fund-raising events is always greatly appreciated.

St Helen’s: The Church Building

The church building is of considerable historical interest. It is Grade 2* listed building. and occupies a site where Christian worship has continued since Saxon times.  

The church has diverse stonework dating from Saxon, Norman and Elizabethan restorations. Like most churches of its age it has seen many alterations

from an original simple room to a 15th-century edifice with north and south aisles. 

The church houses part of a high status Saxon grave cover, perhaps originally part of a Celtic cross. The Church has unusual Tudor bench-ends, dated to the 1550s or 1560s by local historian Bob Kershaw, with ‘poppyheads’ featuring initials, possibly of churchwardens or their families. Originally these would have been part of box pews but were retained  in the Victorian changes to the church.

There are also Restoration plaques, dating from the 1660s, which record the work of tradesman such as ‘putty makers’. On the wall above the chancel arch is mounted a Royal Charter of George I Coat of Arms dated 1722. There is also a memorial tablet to Francis Bond (1852–1918), the late 19th-century authority on Gothic architecture, who was born in the village.

The circular tub font is 12th century Norman and in the south wall of the chancel is a trefoil headed 13th century piscina - a shallow basin used for washing communion vessels.

In 1969, William Toyne Senior, Headmaster of the village school, produced an impressive and scholarly work, ‘St Helen’s Church North Thoresby: A Miscellany’ - an extensive study of many aspects of the Church and village life.

Useful website here.

Church Ln, North Thoresby, Grimsby DN36 5QQ