St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont

Coordinates: 52°56′45″N 01°04′12″W / 52.94583°N 1.07000°W / 52.94583; -1.07000

St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont
The churchyard
Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Broad Church
Website
History
Dedication	St Edmund
Administration
Parish	Holme Pierrepont
Diocese	Southwell and Nottingham
Province	York
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Revd Mark Rodel
Honorary priest(s)	Revd Howard Bateson
Laity
Organist/Director of music	Ian Hepburn

St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont is a parish church in the Church of England in Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire.

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

History

The church has had a long association with Holme Pierrepont Hall.

The medieval church was largely re-built in 1666 by Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester. In 1878 Thomas Chambers Hine added the chancel.^[1]

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

Rectors

• Humphrey Perkins ca. 1718
• Samuel Berdmore 1719 - 1722 also Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham
• ?
• Scrope Berdmore 1740 - 1770 also Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham
• Thomas Donnithorne ???? - 1814
• James Jarvis Cleaver 1814 - ????
• Rev. James Jarvis Peach ???? - 1864?
• Henry Seymour
• Egbert Hacking ca. 1908 - ???? also from 1913 Archdeacon of Newark
• Canon R. P. Tinsley 1959 - ????

Monuments

Memorial to Henry Pierrepont (died 1615)

• Sir Henry Pierrepont, died 1499.
• Sir Henry Pierrepont, died 1615, father of Earl of Kingston upon Hull and Grace, Lady Manners^[2]
• Gertrude, wife of Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull who died in 1649.
• 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 (organ builder) and won a gold medal at the Birmingham Trades Exhibition in 1865.

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