Grove nr. Retford / Grave

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Helens Church Nr Retford Notts. Built 1882 on the site of an older church"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © B Hilton, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 December 2005 by B Hilton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/90172] [accessed 17 Novemvber 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "built in 1882 by Hodgson Fowler in late Decorated style adjacent to the site of the medieval church"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2014 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4128549] [accessed 17 November 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph in the Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/grove/pfont.jpg] [accessed 19 November 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20125GRO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A638, 4 km SW of Retford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham [formerly in the Diocese of Lincoln]
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Church Notes: original church from Domesday-time; present church built 1882
There is an netry for this Grove [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK7379/grove/] [accessed 17 November 2015], it mentions both a priest and a church in it. Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire, vol. 3 (Nottingham: J Throsby, 1796) notes: "There was a priest and a church [cf. supra], and eight acres of meadow, pasture wood one leu. long, and half so much broad [...] The church is small, dedicated to St. Helen; it consist only of a nave and chancel, with a low tower, 2 bells", but does not mention a font in it. The Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/grove/hfitting.php] [accessed 17 November 2015] notes and illustrates a font in this church: "The octagonal font has foliate panels and an octagonal foliate base and panelled stem." The font appears modern, perhaps Victorian, probably from the 1882 re-buiding of this church.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.3075, -0.894167
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 18′ 27″ N, 0° 53′ 39″ W
UTM: 30U 640308 5908546