A fine church built in 1870, designed by James Fowler of Louth. Built of local red brick with stone banding from the previous church on the same spot. St Stephen's church includes a beautiful rounded apse with stained glass windows at the east end.
For more information visit on this building visit www.explorechurches.org/church/st-stephen-hatton
St Giles, situated in the tiniest of hamlets, 12 miles east of Lincoln is the birthplace of Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1207-1228 and a central figure in the drafting and signing of Magna Carta in 1215 at Runnymede.
In the 1930s Arthur Mee wrote a series of guides to Britain called The King's England and whilst researching for this work he realised that there were very few communities that had not suffered military fatalities in the First World War. He coined the term ‘Thankful villages' to describe them. Minting is one such village.
All Saints, was originally built in the 12th and 13th century, when the population of the Wolds was considerably greater. As the population declined the building was gradually reduced in size and its exterior and interior walls show evidence of a lost north aisle, a west tower and the truncation of the chancel.
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