- St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont
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Coordinates: 52°56′45″N 01°04′12″W / 52.94583°N 1.07°W
St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont 
The churchyardDenomination Church of England Churchmanship Broad Church Website myweb.tiscali.co.uk/allhallows History Dedication St Edmund Administration Parish Holme Pierrepont Diocese Southwell and Nottingham Province York Clergy Rector Robert Breckles Laity Organist/Director of music Ian Hepburn St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont is a parish church in the Church of England in Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire.
The church is Grade I listed by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport as a building of outstanding architectural or historic interest.
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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
- Humphrey Perkins ca. 1718
- Samuel Berdmore 1719 - 1722 also Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham
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- 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
- Canon R. P. Tinsley 1959 - ????
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Monuments
Memorial to Henry Pierrepont (died 1615)
- Sir Henry Pierrepont, died 1499.
- Sir Henry Pierrepont, died 1615, father of Earl of Kingston upon Hull and Grace, Lady Manners[2]
- Gertrude, wife of Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull who died in 1649.
- John Oldham (poet)
- Evelyn Pierrepont
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.
References
- ^ The Buildings of England, Nottinghamshire. Nikolaus Pevsner
- ^ Grace Pierrepont, ThePeerage.com, accessed 27 December 2008
Categories:- Church of England churches in Nottinghamshire
- Grade I listed churches
- Grade I listed buildings in Nottinghamshire
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