St Stephen's Church, Bunker's Hill

St. Stephen's Church, Bunker's Hill, also known as Trinity Free Church, was a Church of England church in Nottingham between 1859 and 1896.[1]

St. Stephen’s Church, Bunker's Hill
CountryUnited Kingdom
DenominationChurch of England
ChurchmanshipBroad Church
History
DedicationSt. Stephen
Architecture
Architect(s)Thomas Chambers Hine
Completed1869
Demolished1896
Administration
ParishNottingham
DioceseDiocese of Southwell
ProvinceYork

History

It was built as Trinity Free Church, a chapel of ease to Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Square and opened in 1859. By 1868 the church sought independence from Holy Trinity, and the church was enlarged by Thomas Chambers Hine. The Rt. Revd. John Jackson the Bishop of Lincoln consecrated the new church on 26 November 1868 as St. Stephen's, Bunker's Hill.[2]

A detailed history of the church can be found on the Southwell and Nottingham DAC Church History Website.

Organ

The organ was moved to St. Stephen's Church in Hyson Green. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.

Organists
  • E.T. Evans 1889[3] - ????

Closure
Plaque in St. Stephen's Hyson Green recording the compensation for the church at Bunker's Hill

The church was demolished in 1896 by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (later the Great Central Railway) to make way for Nottingham Victoria railway station. The railway company paid £10,000 (equivalent to £1,165,690 as of 2019) [4] for the church and land and the money went towards the building of a new church of St. Stephen's Church, Hyson Green. Many of the church fittings also went to the new church.

The location of the church is now covered by the Victoria Centre, which replaced Nottingham Victoria railway station.

References
  1. The Buildings of England. Nottinghamshire. Nikolaus Pevsner
  2. Wright's Directory of Nottingham & 12 Miles Round. C N Wright. 1891
  3. "Mr. E.T. Evans". Nottingham Evening Post. England. 16 December 1889. Retrieved 2 June 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
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