St Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont

St Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont is a parish church in the Church of England in Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire.

St Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont
The churchyard
DenominationChurch of England
ChurchmanshipBroad Church
Website
History
DedicationSt Edmund
Administration
ParishHolme Pierrepont
DioceseSouthwell and Nottingham
ProvinceYork
Clergy
Vicar(s)Revd Mark Rodel
Honorary priest(s)Revd Howard Bateson
Laity
Organist/Director of musicIan Hepburn

The church is Grade I listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as a building of outstanding architectural or historic interest.

History

The church has had a long association with Holme Pierrepont Hall.

The medieval church was largely re-built in 1666 by Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester. In 1878 Thomas Chambers Hine added the chancel.[1]

It is now part of the combined parish of All Hallow's Church, Lady Bay.

Rectors

  • John Speed, 1578–1626[2]
  • Humphrey Perkins ca. 1718
  • Samuel Berdmore 1719–1722 also Vicar of St Mary's Church, Nottingham
  • ?
  • Scrope Berdmore 1740–1770 also Vicar of St Mary's Church, Nottingham
  • Thomas Donnithorne ???? - 1814
  • James Jarvis Cleaver 1814–????
  • Rev. James Jarvis Peach ???? - 1864?
  • Henry Seymour
  • Egbert Hacking ca. 1908–???? also from 1913 Archdeacon of Newark
  • Rev WT Saward 1913-? Nottingham Newspaper, Nov 1921
  • Canon R. P. Tinsley 1959–????

Monuments

Memorial to Henry Pierrepont (died 1615)

Stained glass

The east window of 1913 is by James Powell and Sons.

Organ

The organ was built by Charles Lloyd (organ builder) and won a gold medal at the Birmingham Trades Exhibition in 1865.

Organists

  • Robert Bullock 1925[5] - ????

References

  1. The Buildings of England, Nottinghamshire. Nikolaus Pevsner
  2. Church of England list of clergy
  3. Grace Pierrepont Archived 23 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine, ThePeerage.com, accessed 27 December 2008
  4. Arthur Collins (1735). The Peerage of England; Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of England, Now Existing, Etc. R. Gosling&T. Wotton; W. Innys&R. Manby. p. 278.
  5. "I Know a Bank". Nottingham Journal. England. 20 September 1926. Retrieved 2 June 2017 via British Newspaper Archive.
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