In 1860 the
Grade II listed parish church of
All Saints' Church was completely rebuilt in red brick, the previous structure being
thatched. At that time the Horsington
Anglican rectory and living was in the gift of
Magdalen College, Oxford, as principal landowner and provider of the village
Lords of the Manor. Magdalen possibly provided the church organ. The same year the college founded the village
National School, and subscribed to its support.
Kelly also notes the existence of a
Wesleyan chapel. In 1872 ''
White's Directory'' reported that Horsington had a population of 397 within a parish of that extends to Hare Booth south on the
River Witham and includes farms and a wood.
Stixwould railway station was to the east. A significant area of parish land was part of the
manorial rights held by
Magdalen College, Oxford, who held the
patronage for the
benefice of the
ecclesiastical parish. The
incumbency was a
rectory that included a
residence which was built in 1857. A 1760
enclosure of parish land provided of
glebe land—an area of land used to support a parish priest—in lieu of
tithes [tax income from parishioners derived from their profit on sales, or extraction of produce and animals, typically to the tenth part], with a further 14 acres in
South Somercotes. Over 5 acres of land had been allotted to the ecclesiastical parish to service church upkeep "from time immemorial". About from the church was recorded a burial ground of about one acre, which was purchased by parishioners 100 years previously. The
Wesleyans and
Independent churches had each a chapel at Horsington. A
National School attended by 60 children was built in 1861. Professions and trades listed in 1872 included the rector, a parish clerk, a schoolmaster, a farm bailiff, a blacksmith, a dressmaker, a shoemaker, two shopkeepers, a coal dealer, a bricklayer, a carpenter, a wheelwright, a miller, a beer retailer, the
licensed victualler of the Baronet Inn, and thirteen farmers, one of whom was also a miller. Apart from the All Saints' Church, other Grade II listed buildings are three cottages on the village's Main Street, and a ruined 13th-century chapel at Poolham Hall. ==References==