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Mansfield
St Augustine

History

The proposal to erect a building to serve as a Parochial Hall and Sunday school on the newly developed Bull Farm Estate was launched in January 1927, when the owner of the proposed site, the Duke of Portland, donated the land and started the Building Fund. By January 1928 the foundations had been excavated and the brickwork raised to receive the foundation stone that was laid in the west wall of the new building by the Duke of Portland. The foundation stone was removed and re-sited in the west wall extension in 1960.

On 27 October 1928 the Bishop of Southwell, the Right Reverend Harry Moseley, dedicated the building. Reporting on the dedication service the Nottingham Evening Post provided the following information:

'The building has been erected at a cost of about £2,000 and is intended for use as a temporary church, a small sanctuary being attached for that purpose. Towards the cost some £1,100. including donations from the Duke of Portland and local colliery companies, has so far been received, and most of the fittings have been given. These include a communion table, rails and woodwork by Mr. J. Warner (the builder of the hall), an oak cross, lectern and service books by the congregation of St. Mark’s Church, Mansfield, flower vases from St. John's Church, altar linen by Mrs. H. S. Goodrich. and candlesticks, alms dish, altar desk and sanctuary chair by various organisations connected with St. Barnabas's Church, Pleasley Hill. In addition to his donation towards the cost of the building (the foundation stone of which he laid in April), the Duke of Portland gave the site.'

The new building was originally part of the parish of St. Barnabas, Pleasley Hill, and a daughter church of St. Barnabas. It is now part of the joint parish of St. Barnabas and St. Augustine.

The church hall to the east of the church was opened by the Bishop of Sherwood on 23 June 1971.

In 1988 the building, which was by then 60 years old, was re-dedicated by the Lord Bishop of Southwell, the Right Reverend Patrick Harris.