St George's Church, Barton in Fabis

Coordinates: 52°53′23″N 01°13′30″W / 52.88972°N 1.22500°W

St. George's Church, Barton in Fabis
Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Low Church / Evangelical
Website	453churches.com
History
Dedication	St. George
Administration
Parish	Barton in Fabis
Deanery	West Bingham
Archdeaconry	Nottingham
Diocese	Southwell and Nottingham
Province	York
Clergy
Minister(s)	Richard Coleman

St. George's Church is a parish church in the Church of England in Barton in Fabis, Nottinghamshire. It is part of an informal grouping of five churches that are known collectively as "The 453 Churches" as they straddle the A453. The other churches in the group are:

• St. Lawrence's Church, Gotham
• St. Winifred's Church, Kingston on Soar
• Holy Trinity Church, Ratcliffe-on-Soar
• All Saints’ Church, Thrumpton

History

The church is medieval.^[1] St. George's Church was restored in 1855 by Thomas Chambers Hine and is a Grade I listed building.

The church is famous for the alabaster tomb in the chancel dating from 1616 with reclining effigies of William and Tabitha Sacheverell.^[2]

Incumbents

1266 Bartholomew 1270 Henry Sampson ???? Henry de Barton 1288 Adam de Hamundesham 1326 John de Blebury 1328 John de Mekesburgh 1343 Thomas de Birton de Stapilford 1356 Walter de Birton 1357 William de Conyngton 1398 Richard Arnall 1405 John Normanby 1406 William Senster 1408 Ric [Henricus] Killom 1415 John Hill de Farlesthorp 1442 William Findern 1458 Oliver Blakwell 1495 Martin Colyns 1508 John Thorman 1550 James Wheatley 1577 Archibald Lucas Gilpin

1587 John Cooke 1599 Thomas Bowes 1612 Thomas Ireland 1615 Francis Higginson 1616 Ralph Hansbie 1635-37 John Neyle 1641 Barnaby Barlowe 1650 Jonathan Goodwin 1671 Robert Field 1676 Jer Coadworth 1686 Samuel Crowborough 1691 William Pearson 1692 Andrew Lorley 1720 Joseph Milner 1751 John Wickliffe 1769 Henry Forster Mills 1792 Robert Markham 1806 John Storer 1827 Hon J S Venables Vernon 1828 John Fyre

1829 Fitzgerald Wintour 1865 Lloyd Bruce 1872 James Sweet 1878 Christopher Albert Hodgson 1916 William Gallagher 1920 Henry Meaden 1924 Joseph Poole 1929 Ernest Bardsley 1940 F. Turney 1941 Frederick Byron, 10th Baron Byron 1942 Reginald Bidwell 1947 Harold Pritchard 1960 Arnold Hill 1964 Stephen Forbes-Adam 1970 Robin Protheroe 1973 Andrew Woodsford 1982 Alistair Sutherland 1997 Richard Spray 2001 Stephen Osman 2011 Richard Coleman

Organ

The two manual pipe organ dates from 1893 and is by the builder Alexander Young. It was installed in 1965. It came from Wincham Methodist Church. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.

References

1. The Buildings of England. Nottinghamshire, 1951. Nikolaus Pevsner; p. 33
2. The Buildings of England. Nottinghamshire, 1951. Nikolaus Pevsner; p. 33

External links

• Southwell & Nottingham church history project