 Broxtowe
Old Church
Archaeology
The precise location of the church is unknown.
However, following the demolition of Broxtowe Hall in 1937 various discoveries were made here during the construction of a large Nottingham Corporation housing estate. According to Hind (1940) 'some masonry of an ecclesiastical type was dug up on the N.E. side of the Hall, no doubt being the foundation of a small church which existed there from medieval times'. He also reported that 'when making a trench for drainage where the front garden of the Hall had been, more than 20 skulls were found of men, women and children, with other human remains, but no sign of grave furniture or ornaments ... The soil was black as though it had been turned about continually, and the bones were often grouped promiscuously. This drain had evidently cut through the old burying ground for 30 yards.'
According to the Nottingham City Historic Environment Record further burials were uncovered at Broxtowe Hall Close [on the site of the old hall] at some time during the 1980s.
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