For many years, Barton had two churches a few hundred metres apart, but the internationally known tenth century church of Saint Peter is no longer used for regular worship, but is under the care of English Heritage and is open on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. For opening hours, see here. For information about its recent refurbishment and about the new ossuary, please click here. On 7 March, 2008, the new ossuary was blessed as part of a Requiem Eucharist in Saint Peter's for all those ancient citizens of Barton whose bodies were excavated in the 1980s and whose bones are now cared for in the Ossuary. For a picture and details of the service, click this link.

We are in the process of digitizing church archive material from the last 30 years. This includes some material from the Parish magazines of the 1970s. To see this material, click on "Archives" in the left-hand menu.

Access to Saint Mary's is usually available on most days, as it is a Cascade church in the Lincolnshire Church Tourism Cascade. Provision has been made for level access for wheelchairs, baby carriers, zimmer frames, and spaces are available in the body of the church for wheelchair-using worshippers. An amplifying loop is used at services to facilitate those using hearing aids.

The Wilderspin National School, one of the earliest National (Church of England) Schools to be built and one of the few to survive intact, was the only school in Barton for many years. The building has been restored and is now open to the public Thursdays to Sundays from 10-00 to 17-00. For further information, see the web site.

Vistors often comment on the lightness of the church, due to its relative lack of stained glass. The East widow, however does contain a composite panel of fragments of mediaeval glass, as shown in this photograph.