St Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont

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St Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont

Nottinghamshire

Status: parish church
St Edmunds Holme Pierrepont.jpg
The churchyard
Church of England
Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
Parish: SK62613924
Location
Grid reference: SK62613924
Location: 52°56’49"N, 1°4’11"W
History
Information
Website: st-edmunds.org.uk

The Church of St Edmund is an interesting little church close to the River Trent in Holme Pierrepont in Nottinghamshire. It is a Grade I listed building.[1]

The church is the parish church for Holm Pierrepoint, in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham, but stands in the private estate of Holme Pierrepont Hall, with which it has a longstanding association with the hall and the Pierrepoint family who owned the estate and from whom the village takes the suffix of its name.

It is a mediæval church, but it was largely re-built in 1666 by Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester. In 1878 Thomas Chambers Hine added the chancel.[2] Further restorations were carried out in 1912 and 1960 and the spire was restored around 1980.[1]

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

Within the church

Monuments

Memorial to Henry Pierrepont (died 1615)
  • Sir Henry Pierrepont, died 1499.
  • Sir Henry Pierrepont, died 1615, father of Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull and Grace, Lady Manners[3]
  • Gertrude, wife of Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull who died in 1649.[4]
  • 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, and won a gold medal at the Birmingham Trades Exhibition in 1865.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 National Heritage List 1249315: Church of St Edmund (Grade I listing)
  2. Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, 1951; 1979 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09636-1
  3. Grace Pierrepont ThePeerage.com]
  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. pp. 278. https://books.google.com/books?id=rbqneik2YskC&pg=PA278.