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Screveton, Nottinghamshire

Location
(52°59′2″N, 0°54′56″W)
Screveton
SK 729 435
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Nottinghamshire
now Nottinghamshire
  • Simon Kirsop
  • Simon Kirsop
  • Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project
16th July 2003

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Feature Sets
Description

The church consists of chancel, N vestry, nave, N and S aisles and W tower. A modern S porch replaces an earlier brick one. The main body of the church dates from the 13thc. – chancel of c.1200; N aisle probably mid-13thc. – but the font and fragments of a Saxon cross present in the church suggest there was an earlier building on the site. The tower is probably 15thc. but is said to have been altered in Elizabethan times. The chancel was restored in 1881 and the body of the church in 1884.

The font is the only Romanesque feature.

History

Screveton was listed as a possession of King William in the Domesday Survey of 1086. No church was mentioned.

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

The font is probably to be dated to around 1170.

Standish says the repair to the font is in Roche stone.

Bibliography

Anon, Parish Church of St Wilfrid, Screveton, n.p., n.d.

J. C. Cox, County Churches: Nottinghamshire, London, 1912, 176.

Historic England Listed Building No. 124381. English Heritage Legacy ID: 448159.

N. Pevsner & E. Williamson, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, 2nd edn., London, 1979 (reprinted with corrections 1997), 304.

https://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/screveton/hintro.php

J. Standish, 'Screveton Church', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, vol. 12, 1908, 53-62.