a post office, a cafe and a butcher's. The village public house is The White Swan. Until 1959 there was a second public house, The Marquis of Granby Inn, on the corner of Welby Court and Main Street. It is pictured in a 1910 postcard of the village. The Anglican Grade I listed parish church, dedicated to All Saints, was built in the 13th and 14th centuries from ironstone and limestone, in the Early English and Perpendicular Gothic styles. The church was extensively restored in 1852 and 1870. It includes a medieval door on the south side of the chancel, a humorous corbel at the foot of a south window, depicting a head that seems to have been pinched out of place by the adjacent buttress, and a blocked north door. Significant internal features include stained glass windows. The ecclesiastical parish belongs to the Barrowby and Great Gonerby group in the Deanery of Grantham, Diocese of Lincoln. The incumbent was Rev. Peter Hopkins until his retirement in 2019. Services are held in Gonerby and at All Saints. There was a Methodist chapel in Chapel Lane, next to where the post office now stands. Education Barrowby parish school was built in 1852 adjacent to the church. Part of the original school hall and bell tower remain. It has since been modernised with additional buildings. It has a school roll of about 240 pupils aged 4–11 and has received Basic Skills Mark, Healthy Schools, and Eco-Schools Silver Status awards. Notable people Dr Thomas Hurst was born in the village in 1598 and became rector of Barrowby in 1629. He became chaplain to King Charles I. Sir John Thorold, 4th Baronet was a landowner who owned about a quarter of the parish, the other parts being split between the Duke of Devonshire and the Welby family. The Thorold family also owned land in the nearby villages of Casthorpe and Sedgebrook. Thorold Road is named after Sir John. Further reading De Ville, Eileen: Guide to Barrowby Parish Church, All Saints (1977), Journal Commercial Printers, 1977 Barrowby: a guide to the archaeology of the Parish, King's School, Archaeological Society, c. 1971 References External links Location map of Barrowby Aerial view of Barrowby Web site of Barrowby CofE Primary School, Barrowby All Saints Church Barrowby Barrowby Improvement Group (B.I.G.) Villages in Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire South Kesteven District