Church Of St Helen

The Church of St Helen is a parish church built in 1847 by W. A. Nicholson of Lincoln, designed in a fanciful Gothic style. It features lined stucco with ashlar dressings and slate roofs, comprising a western tower, nave, and chancel. The two-stage tower has an octagonal belfry and spire, with a moulded plinth and gabled, stepped, set-back buttresses that end in an embattled parapet adorned with eight pinnacles. The belfry contains eight trefoil-headed lights separated by narrow buttresses, and above it is another embattled parapet with a short, recessed, panelled, and ribbed spire. The upper stage of the tower has single lancet windows on both the south and north walls. The west door features traceried panels within a deeply concave moulded surround, topped by a quatrefoil light in a circular moulded frame.

The nave's side walls have set-back mid-wall buttresses that are gabled and decorated with grotesque heads. A parapet with trefoil piercings is surmounted by angle and mid-wall pinnacles, and each side has two pairs of trefoil-headed windows. The chancel includes a parapet with a pierced zigzag motif filled with trilobes, and the east window consists of three cusped-headed lights with panel tracery. All windows are topped with concave moulded hoods and portrait human head label stops.

Inside, the pointed arches of the tower and chancel feature angle shafts, moulded heads, hoods, and floriate label stops. The rear arches of the windows are hooded with floriate stops. The east window contains 19th-century stained glass with a reused centrepiece depicting The Deposition. The ceilings are made of timber ribbed panels with plaster bosses. The church's fittings, dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, include elegant poppy head benches, a panelled pulpit, and a small Gothic-style font made of salt-glazed stoneware inscribed "St. Mary Mag. Oxon," which stands on a 20th-century base that matches the altar. The church is located in Biscathorpe Park, near the site of a deserted medieval village.