Nottingham St Mary

References

Archival Sources

Nottinghamshire Archives Office

Parish Registers: Baptisms from 1566, Marriages from 1566, Burials from 1566.

Churchwardens Accounts 1583-1584, 1589-1590, 1590-1591.

Minute Book of the Vicar and Churchwardens 1882-1889, 1898-1916.

Terriers and Charities 1687-1825.

Church Accounts Minute Book 1916-1944.

Guild Roll, The Guild of St. Mary 1371.

Faculties. Numerous references used.

St. Mary’s Ephemera.

Lincolnshire Archives

To Restore the Church 1866 FB7/101.

Borthwick Institute York

York Archiepiscopal Registers Markham 1777-1807 Folio 241-242.

Faculties Book 3 1793-1816 Folio 351-2 Stretton and Cooper 1804.

Accounts of the Churchwardens of St. Mary’s 1589-1590.

Nottingham University Hallward Library

Archdeaconry of Nottingham Presentment Bills 1722.

Lambeth Palace Library

Correspondence, Archdeacon Wilkins, Enlargement and Improvement to the seating accommodation ICBS 316, 1821.

Letters from Revd. J. M. Brooks to Bishop of Lincoln Ref. 03338, 1844.

Plans ICBS 02364 Folio 19ff (1838-1840) ICBS 0338b (1843-1848) ICBS 0338c (1843-1848)

Birmingham City Archives

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Hardman Collection Day Book 1870-1877 No. 54.

Published Sources

Andrew Abbott, Nottingham Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, A Brief History of the Bells, March 1995.

Abbott, Andrew & Whittle, John. 1993, The Organs and Organists of St Mary’s Church Nottingham.

Allen, Frank J, 1932, The Great Church Towers of England. Chiefly of the Perpendicular Period Cambridge Univeristy Press

Annual Reports, 1864-1958.

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Geddes, Jane, 1999, Medieval Decorative Ironwork in England. Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Gentlemens’ Magazine,1843, Vol XIX.

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Glover, Stephen, 1844, The History & Directory of the Town & County of the Town of Nottingham.

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Newspapers

Nottingham Journal, Removal of the Galleries, October 4th 1839.

Nottingham Journal, Restoration of St. Mary’s Church, May 19th 1848.

Thanks also to the following people who have given their time and encouragement to this project:

The staff at the Local Studies Library, Angel Row.
The staff at the Nottinghamshire Archives.
Nottingham University Dr. Jennifer Alexander
St. Mary’s: Andrew Abbott, Robert Searle-Barnes, Dr. Julia Barrow, Martyn Marriott.