St. Peter's Church, Nottingham

Parish church
name = The Church of St. Peter with St. James


caption = St. Peter's Church Nottingham
dedication =
denomination = Church of England
tradition = Broad Church
diocese = Southwell and Nottingham
province = Province of York
vicar = vacant
curate = Revd. Chrissie Little
curate1 =
organistdom = Peter Siepmann
organist = Mike Leuty
warden =
warden1 =
website = [http://www.nottinghamchurches.org// www.nottinghamchurches.org]

St Peter's Church, Nottingham is an Anglican parish church in the city of Nottingham.

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

It is part of the parish of All Saints', St. Mary's and St. Peter's, Nottingham.

Formally it is the church of St. Peter with St. James.

History

St. Peter's is one of the three mediaeval parish churches in Nottingham, the others being St Mary's and St Nicholas'. The parish of St James's Church, Standard Hill, founded in 1807 was united with St Peter's in 1933 and the official title "St Peter with St James" came into being. (St James's was demolished a few years later; some monuments from St James's are preserved in St Peter's.)

The church shows traces of many stages of construction from about 1180 onwards (the original church of around 1100 was destroyed by fire).

The history of St. Peter's is covered in detail on the [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/n01/index.html Southwell Diocesan Church History Project Website]

The organ

The first organ since the Commonwealth period was installed by Lincoln in 1812.

The organ was originally by Lloyd and Dudgeon from 1863 but has been adapted and restored several times by E. Wragg & Sons, Henry Willis & Sons and Hill, Norman & Beard. It now incorporates parts from the organ from St. Columba, Mansfield Road.

Link to the organ specification on the National Pipe Organ Register [http://npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N12469]

Organists

There are notes of payments to organists in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
*1481-1482 And for 5s paid to the organist (lusori ad organa) in the aforesaid Church in this year.
*1516/17 - 1517/18 And for 6s 11d paid to Robert Dowse, organist, at the requst of the greater part of the parishioners, in augmentation of his salary.

*On 25th October 1785, William Bradley was allowed one guinea for teaching the boys to sing.
*Organist paid £12/12 in 1816 but cost was not borne by the church.

*Miss King - 1818 - 1825 - ?
*Miss Price c.1834
*William Archer c.1834
*Mrs Cooper c.1840
*Mr. Woolley c.1844
*R.G. Parr - 1854 - 1858 - ?
*W. Selby c.1862
*T.L. Selby c.1864
*W. Selby c.1866 - 1879 - ?
*Lawrence J Norman ca 1901
*Vincent W. Trivett 1906 - 1947 (formerly Lady Bay Church West Bridgford 1901-1906)
*Harold E F Bebbington 1947 - 1952
*Cyril Whitehead 1952 - 1953
*Douglas Madden 1953 - 1957
*Kendrick Partington 1957 - 1994
*Gary Seiling 1994 - 1995
*Andrew Teague 1995 - 2003
*Philip Collin 2003 - 2008
*Peter Siepman 2008 -

ee also

* All Saints' Church, Nottingham
* St. Mary's Church, Nottingham

ources

*Alfred Stapleton, 1905, Churches and monasteries of old and new Nottingham
*Keith Train, 1981, Train on churches, Nottingham