St Helen's Church, Selston

Coordinates: 53°04′30″N 01°19′02″W / 53.07500°N 1.31722°W

St. Helen's Church, Selston
Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Broad Church
Website	sthelenschurch.org/sthelen/index.htm
History
Dedication	St. Helen
Administration
Parish	Selston
Diocese	Southwell and Nottingham
Province	York
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Revd Fiona Shouler

St. Helen's Church, Selston is a parish church in the Church of England in Selston, Nottinghamshire.

The church is Grade II* listed by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport^[1] as it is a particularly significant building of more than local interest.

History

The church is medieval but was restored in 1899 and a north aisle added.^[1][2]

In the churchyard there is a monolith of the type found in Derbyshire stone circles which suggests that the site was used for pagan worship before the church was built. The churchyard houses the grave of Daniel Boswell King of the Gypsies.^[3]

Parish structure

St. Helen's Church has a daughter church of St. Mary's Church, Westwood.

Organ

The church contains an organ by Henry Groves dating from 2010. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.^[4]

Incumbents

1176 Adam 1244 Roger del Clay 1252 Verasour de Wansley 1287 John de Gateyford 1290 Robert de Gateyford 1310 Thomas de Hothum 1321 William de Ilkeston 1322 John de Kendale 1324 William de Leston 1339 William de Ros 1344 John Dell Hill de Panvil 1344 John de Arnale 1363 John Sheperly 1363 Henry Barton 1434 John Eyswayte 1434 Richard Twigge 1446 Richard Holt 1456 John Day

1483 John Derman 1490 John Wilson 1525 Rd. Martyn 1550 Nicholas Walker 1575 Thomas Taylor 1605 Thomas Mylner 1611 George Longden 1614 Peter Parote 1615 Franc Stephenson 1621 William Williamson 1624 Thomas Bowcher 1631 Henry Denham 1650 Samuel Sildon 1653 Charles Jackson 1662 William Pearson 1669 Nicholas Sore 1669 Robert Hettcliffe 1699 J Cooper (curate)

1713 J Cooper (called vicar) 1754 Anthony Carr 1805 I Pepper 1838 F Churchill 1843 J Hides 1855 George Frederick Williamson 1856 Robert John William Wright 1887 Charles Harrison 1916 Richard Dudley Weller 1924 Philip H Hart 1929 Palmer Allison Sharp 1936 Henry Wright Schofield 1945 Edward Frederick H Dunnicliffe (previously vicar of All Saints' Church, Nottingham) 1949 Hugh Bickersteth Biddell 1956 Gerald Nettleton Pearce 1962 Hubert Victor Simmons 1978 John Frederick Jacklin 1996 Robert White Yule 2001 Timothy Mitchell 2006 Fiona Shouler

Sources

1. Historic England. "CHURCH OF ST HELEN, CHURCH LANE (1275170)". National Heritage List for England.
2. Pevsner, Nikolaus (1979). Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England). Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin. p. 305. ISBN 978-0300096361.
3. Churches in the Ashfield Area. Ashfield District Council
4. "NPOR E01864". National Pipe Organ Register. British Institute of Organ Studies. Retrieved 19 March 2015.