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Archaeology

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Organ

Bells

Clock

Stonework

Monuments

War Memorial

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References

Pictures

Plans

Listing Description

List of Incumbents

Parish page

Norwell St Laurence

References

Archival Sources

British Library

Harley Charter 84 A 31 Richard the Chaplain, early C13

Harley Charter 112 H 18 Richard the Chaplain, early C13

Church of England Records, Bermondsey

EC 10111, parts 1-4, Norwell Overhall Prebend and Other Estates, Norwell Parish, Co. Notts, Norwell V, Church and Chancel Repairs, 1857-C20

Lincolnshire Archives Office

FAC Papers/1876/5 Restoration, 1874-6

FAC Plans Restoration, 1876

Newark Library

Microfiche of Parish registers for Norwell: Christenings, Marriages, Burials 1681-1767 (after NAO, PR 6266)

Norwell, St Laurence / Norwell Parish Heritage Group

Files containing manuscript, registers, printed and photographic material, mainly late C19 and C20, relating to:-

Norwell, St Laurence, Baptism Certificates Book (also used at Ragnall and Dunham) 1950-69

Norwell, St Laurence, Bell appeal fund, 1932 etc.

Norwell, St Laurence, Church School, photostat copy of conveyance, 1871

Norwell St Laurence, Churchwardens’ Account Book 1858-1984

Norwell, St Laurence, Clock Fund and Installation of clock, 1953

Norwell, St Laurence, Death Watch beetle, 1930s

Norwell, St Laurence, Fabric fund accounts

Norwell, St Laurence, Faculties

Norwell, St Laurence, Finances

Norwell, St Laurence, Insurance documents

Norwell, St Laurence, Leaflets, programmes etc. of special events

Norwell, St Laurence, Organ and Organ Fund accounts

Norwell, St Laurence, Parish Magazines (individual issues 1896, 1898-1901, 1903, 1905, 1911, 1935; complete run 1966-present)

Norwell, St Laurence, Parochial Church Minutes, 1925-present

Norwell, St Laurence, Register of Services 5 Jan. 1930-28 Dec. 1949

Norwell, St Laurence, Rent Book for Church Cottages 1934-40

Norwell, St Laurence, Repairs

Norwell, St Laurence, Sequestration 1969, 1974

Norwell, St Laurence, Sunday School attendance register, 1944 et seq.

Norwell St Laurence, Supplementary Account Book 1910-77

Norwell St Laurence, Visitors Book 1951-84

Norwell Men’s Institute, Minute Book, 1920-51

Norwell, New Parsonage House, 1974

Norwell, Trustees of Mrs Brand’s Charity, Account Book 1916-88

Norwell, Trustees of Col. James Craig’s Charity, Account Book 1911-88

Nottinghamshire Archives Office & Southwell Diocesan Office

Southwell Minster Library

Notes, Papers, Transcripts and Indices relating to the Liber Albus (White Book) of Southwell (original in NAO)

Southwell Diocesan Church Calendar (various years)

Southwell Diocesan Magazine (various years)

St Deiniol’s Library, Hawarden

Rev Stephen Glynne’s Notes, vol. 34 [photocopies provided by DAC]

University of Nottingham, Department of Manuscripts

Clifton Deeds:

Cl D 65, enfeoffment by John de Leghton, vicar, 1315

Cl D 66, letters of attorney of John de Leghton, vicar, 1315

Cl D 404, charter of Mr John Clarell, prebendary of Overhall, 1290 x 1295

Cl D 472, enfeoffment by Mr Robert de Wodehouse, 1339

Cl D 568, enfeoffment by Richard de Northwell, clerk, 1365

Cl D 569, enfeoffment by Elizabeth, widow of Henry de Northwell, 1365

Middleton Deeds:

Mi M 217, 17th century survey of Cromwell manor lands in Willoughby by Norwell

MSS Histories & Scrapbooks of Norwell & District

[Ainley, Basil S.], History of Norwell, c1934 (Typescript, includes 8 sheets
with 17 photographs, 43 pages + notes) (in possession of David Garnett Esq., The
Grange, Norwell)

Hemingway, Guy Yeoman, A History of Norwell (Typescript, c1983, 162 pp.) (Norwell Parish Church; other copies in NAO, NUM, Newark Library)

Hemingway, Guy Yeoman, A History of Carlton on Trent (Typescript, 1983, 145 pp.) (copies in NAO, NUM and Newark Library)

Smith, Wallace H., Studies in the Evolution of Norwell (Typescript, 1967, 126 pp.) (copies in NAO, Newark Library, Norwell Parish Heritage Group)

Brown, Mrs A., Norwell Scrapbook (Mr E. A. Brown, Norwell)

Wood, Mrs M. and Jackson, Mrs D. E., Norwell Scrapbook, 1971 (Newark Library)

Norwell Scrapbook 1968 (recte 1965) (Newark Library)

Norwell Scrapbook 1963-1978 (Norwell Parish Heritage Group, formerly Wallace Smith)

Published Sources

Documents:

An Act for inclosing and exonerating from tithes lands in the parish of Norwell in the County of Nottingham, 5 May 1826 (Newark Library)

Dedication of Two New Bells (Order of Service), 8 September 1977 (Norwell Parish Heritage Group)

Norwell: Listing SK 76 SE (National Monuments Record)

Norwell: The Parish Church of St Laurence (Visitors’ leaflet)

Norwell: Village Pack (Nottingham County Library, Angel Row, Nottingham)

Editions:

A Calendar of the Register of Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, 1398-1405, ed. Robert N. Swanson, York: Borthwick Texts nos. 8 (1981) and 11 (1985)

Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire, Edward I and Edward II, 1279 to 1321, ed. John Standish, T[horoton] S[ociety], R[ecord] S[eries] iv (1914)

Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire, 1350-1436, ed. K. S. S. Train, TS, RS xii (1952)

Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire, 1437-1485, ed. Mary A. Renshaw, TS, RS xvii (1956)

Abstracts of the Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to Nottinghamshire, Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1485-1546, ed. W. P. W. Phillimore, TS, RS iii (1905)

Archbishop Herring’s Visitation Returns, 1743, ed. S. L. Ollard and P. C. Walker (Yorks. Archaeological Soc, RS, 5 vols), iv (1930)

Beverley Minster Fasti, ed. Richard T. W. McDermid (Yorks. Archaeological Soc., RS, cxlix, 1993)

Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office, 62 vols. London 1892-1963

Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, 15 vols. London 1893-continuing

Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Petitions to the Pope, London 1896

Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office, 73 vols. London 1891-1982

Calendar of Nottinghamshire Coroners’ Inquests 1485-1558, ed. R. F. Hunnisett, TS, RS xxv (1969)

Clergy Guide (1822) and (1829)

Clergy List 1842

The Compton Census of 1676: A Critical Edition, ed. Anne Whiteman with Mary Clapinson, London 1986

Crockfords Clerical Dictionary (various years)

Domesday Book [various editions and translations]

Dugdale’s Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Visitation Papers, transcribed George Ireland, ed. G. D. Squibb, Harleian Soc., n.s. 6 (1987)

English Episcopal Acta V, York 1070-1154, ed. Janet E. Burton, Oxford 1988

English Episcopal Acta, York 1154-1181, ed. Marie Lovatt, London 2000

English Episcopal Acta, York 1189-1212, ed. Marie Lovatt, London 2004

[The] Estate and Household Accounts of William Worsley, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral 1479-1497, ed. Hannes Kleineke and Stephanie R. Hovland, Richard III and Yorkist History Trust & London Record Society, Donington 2004

Fasti Eboracenses, ed. James Raine, 1863

Georgian Southwell. A Year in the Life of a Young Southwell Attorney, transcribed by R. E. Hardstaff (Southwell and District Local History Society), Southwell 2000

Historians of the Church of York and its Archbishops, ed. J. Raine, 3 vols. London: Rolls Series 1879-94

Le Neve, John, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, ed. T. Duffus Hardy, 3 vols. Oxford 1854

Le Neve, John, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541, compiled by J. M. Horn et al., 11 vols., London, 1962-7; 1541-1857, compiled by J. M. Horn et al., 11 vols. London, 1969-2004

Nottinghamshire: Extracts from the County Records of the 18th Century, ed. K. Meaby, n.d.

Nottinghamshire Household Inventories, ed. P. A. Kennedy, TS RS xxii (1963)

Nottingham Visitation 1662-1664, ed. K. S. S. Train, TS, RS xiii (1949)

Parliamentary Land Enclosures in the County of Nottingham during the 18th and 19th centuries (1743-1868), ed. W. E. Tate, TS, RS, v (1935)

Pipe Roll Society, Pipe Rolls, 13 Henry II, 1166-7, xi (1889); 16 Henry II, 1169-70, xv (1892)

Records of Antony Bek, bishop and patriarch, 1283-1311, ed. Constance M. Fraser (The Surtees Soc., 162, 1953)

Religion in Victorian Nottinghamshire: The Religious Census of 1851, ed. M. R. Watts, 2 vols. University of Nottingham 1988

‘Rental of Robert de Caunton, February 1340’, ed. L. V. D. Owen, A Miscellany of Nottinghamshire Records, TS, RS xi (1945), 147-50

Rotuli Hundredorum, 2 vols. London 1813-18

Seventeenth Century Parish Register Transcripts belonging to the Peculiar of Southwell, ed. T. M. Blagg, TS, RS i (1903)

Testamenta Eboracensia, or Wills Registered at York ... from the Year MCCC downwards, Part I (The Surtees Society, ii (1836)).

Testamenta Eboracensia, iii, ed. James Raine (The Surtees Society, 45 (1864))

The Liber Pauperum of Vacarius, ed. F. de Zulueta (Selden Society, xliv (1927))

The Register of William Wickwane, Lord Archbishop of York 1279-1285, ed. William Brown (The Surtees Society, 114 (1907))

The Register, or Rolls, of Walter Gray, Lord Archbishop of York with Appendices of Illustrative Documents, ed. James Raine (The Surtees Society, 56 (1870))

The Register of Walter Giffard, Lord Archbishop of York, 1266-1279, ed. W. Brown (The Surtees Society, 109 (1904))

The Register of John Le Romeyn, Lord Archbishop of York, 1286-1296, Part I, ed. W. Brown (The Surtees Society, 123 (1913))

The Registers of John Le Romeyn, Lord Archbishop of York, 1286-1296, Part II, and of Henry of Newark, Lord Archbishop of York, 1296-1299, ed. W. Brown (The Surtees Society, 128 (1916))

The Register of Thomas of Corbridge, Lord Archbishop of York, 1300-1304, ed. W. Brown and A. H. Thompson , 2 vols. (The Surtees Society, 138 (1925) and 141 (1928))

The Register of William Greenfield, Lord Archbishop of York, 1306-1315, ed. W. Brown and A. H. Thompson , 5 vols. (The Surtees Society, 145, 149, 151-3 (1931-40))

The Register of William Melton, Lord Archbishop of York, 1317-1340, ed. Rosalind M. T. Hill, David Robinson, Reginald Brocklesby and T. C. B. Timmins, 5 vols. (The Canterbury and York Society, vols. LXX, LXXI, LXXVI, LXXXV, XCIII), 1977-2002

The Register of Thomas Rotherham, Archbishop of York, 1480-1500, ed. E. E. Barker (The Canterbury & York Soc., LIX), 1976

The Wardrobe Book of William de Norwell, 12 July 1338-27 May 1340, ed. Mary Lyon, Bryce Lyon and Henry S. Lucas, Brussels 1983

Union of Benefices under Pastoral Measure 1968, 22 September 1982

Union of Benefices under Pastoral Measure 1983, 18 January 1990

Visitations and Memorials of Southwell Minster, ed. A. F. Leach (London: Camden Society, 1894)

Secondary works:

Beaumont, R. M., The Chapter of Southwell Minster. A Story of 1000 Years, 4th edn. Southwell, 1994

Blagg, Thomas M., ‘Norwell’, TTS, 35 (1931), 20-35

Blair, John, The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society, Oxford 2005

Brown, Cornelius, Lives of Nottinghamshire Worthies, London and Nottingham 1882

Butler, Lionel A. S., ‘Medieval Cross-slabs in Nottinghamshire’, TTS, 56 (1952), 25-40

Butler, Lionel H., ‘Archbishop Melton, his neighbours and his kinsmen, 1317-1340’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, ii (1951), 54-68

Carter, W. F. and Wilkinson, R. F., ‘The Fledborough family of Lisures’, TTS 44 (1940), 14-34

Dawson, George, The Church Bells of Nottinghamshire, 3 vols. 1994-5

Dickenson, William (Rastall), The History and Antiquities of the Town of Southwell, 1819 (reprinted 1996)

Emden, Alfred B., A Biographical Register of the University of Cambridge to AD 1500, Oxford 1963

Emden, Alfred B., A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to AD 1500, 3 vols. Oxford 1957-9; AD 1501-1540, Oxford 1974

Foster, Joseph, Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714, 4 vols. Oxford 1891; 1715-1886, 4 vols. Oxford, 1891

Godfrey, John T., Notes on the Churches of Nottinghamshire: Hundred of Bingham, London 1907

Goodwin, John, Memories of Norwell, Newark 1984

Grassi, J. T., ‘Royal Clerks from the Archdiocese of York in the Fourteenth Century’, Northern History, v (1970), 12-33

Guilford, Everard L., Memorials of Old Nottinghamshire, London 1912

Guilford, Everard L., ‘Nottinghamshire in 1676’, TTS, 28 (1924), 106-13

Hamilton Thompson, A., ‘The Certificates of the Chantry Commissioners for the College of Southwell in 1546 and 1548’, TTS, 5 (1911), 63-158

Iliffe, Richard and Baguley, Wilfred, Victorian Nottingham. A Story in Pictures, vol. 13 (The Park, The General Hospital), Nottingham 1974

Kelly’s Directory (various years)

Killpack, W. B., The History and Antiquities of the Collegiate Church of Southwell, illustrated by views of the Interior and Exterior, Plans, Sections, Etc., of the Edifice, with a descriptive account by T. H. Clarke, London 1839

Lawrance, Henry and Routh, T. E., ‘Military Effigies in Nottinghamshire before the Black-Death’, TTS, 28 (1924), 114-37

Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary, London 1840

Liebermann, Friedrich, ‘Magister Vacarius’, English Historical Review, xi (1896), 304-14, 514-15

Livett, G. M., Southwell Minster. An account of the collegiate and Cathedral Church of Southwell, 1883

Lyth, Philip, The Saxon Charter Boundary of AD 956 and the Mediaeval Deer Parks of the Archbishop of York at Southwell, Newark 1989

Moor, Charles, Knights of Edward I, vol. III, L-O (The Harleian Society, 1930)

Ottey, John L., The Story of Southwell Minster (Nottingham, 2005)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H. G. C. Matthews and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. Oxford 2004

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, 2nd edn. ed. Elizabeth Williamson, London 1979

Rastall, William Dickenson, A History of the Antiquities of the Town and Church of Southwell in the County of Nottingham, Southwell 1787

Smith, Wallace, H., The Enclosure of Norwell, Retford 1968, 10 pp.

Southern, Richard W., ‘Master Vacarius and the Beginning of an English Academic Tradition’, Medieval Learning and Literature. Essays presented to Richard William Hunt, ed. J. J. G. Alexander and M. T. Gibson, Oxford 1976, pp. 257-86

Stein, Peter, ‘Vacarius and the Civil Law’, Church and Government in the Middle Ages. Essays presented to C. R. Cheney on his 70th Birthday, ed. C. N. L. Brooke, D. E. Luscombe, G. H. Martin and Dorothy Owen, Cambridge 1972, 119-37

Stenton, Sir Frank, The Founding of Southwell Minster, Southwell 1956, 8 pp.

Summers, Norman, A Prospect of Southwell, revised edn. Southwell 1988

Thoroton, Robert, The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, 1677; ed. and enlarged by John Throsby, 3 vols. 1790-6, and reprinted, 3 vols. 1972, with introduction by M. W. Barley and K. S. S. Train

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Train, Keith S. S., ‘Lists of the Clergy of North Nottinghamshire’, TTS, RS, xx (1961)

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