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Radcliffe on Trent St Mary

References

Archival Sources

Nottinghamshire Archives:

DDTS 14/26/1 pp.79, 105, 141, 171, 174, 199; 14/26/2 pp.18, 22, 40, (Archdeaconry discipline)

QSM 1/1 pp.37,120, 162,174

DDTS 14/26/10 pp.35, 65 (Nonconformity)

QSM 1/77 pp.51, 93, 108 (breakdown of religious authority)

DR 1/3/2/144/1-13 (terriers from 1714-1825)

PR 1498 registers 1741-9

microfilm of Archbishop Drummond’s Visitation 1764

PR 1510 Churchwardens’ Book

PR 1507 (register containing details of C of E School)

PR 2900 (Preacher’s book for missions)

PR 2888-2896 (faculties 1878-1950)

PR 20,188/1-5 (faculties 1959-78)

PR 1508, 2897, 2898, 20185, RT1/1-4 (rebuilding c. 1879)

PR 28562/1-3, PR 28563 (plurality from 1941 to 1980s)

PR 28565 (quinquennial report of 1955).

University of Nottingham Manuscripts Department:

AN A1, 16 Dec 1570, AN PB 292/1 f.7, PB 292/2 f.5v. (discipline)

AN PB currently in 292/3 Mixed Deaneries, f.35 (poverty)

AN A 24/4 (2 July 1603), AN PB 295/2/24, AN PB 295/5/93 (Nonconformity)

AN PB 295/2/13, AN PB 295/2/35, AN PB 314/1/17, AN PB 314/1/53, AN PB 314/3/32, AN PB 315 for 1635 and 1638 currently in conservation (Archdeaconry discipline)

AN A 26/2/81 (bible)

AN A 45-8 currently in conservation (breakdown of religious authority)

AN PB 316/79, AN CL 170/1/3, AN LB 229/2/15 (lack of a permanent vicar)

AN PV 374 f.10 for 1718, AN PV 374 for 1722 and 1729, AN/M 269/31 (inadequacies and improvements in church fabric and contents)

AN PN 369/253 (Ann Day)

M 3317/2b, M 3318/12 (correspondence for fall of steeple and fires in the chancel)

AN Misc. 273/71-74 (rebuilding c.1792).

Borthwick Institute, York:

CPG 1654 for Granger; Archiepiscopal book of livings augmented in the diocese of York.

Public Record Office

SP 23/71 p.379, SP 23/77 pp.408-22, SP 22/2B p.721 (Creswell’s financial situation).

Southwell Diocesan Office

166BK outlines of grants, plurality orders, sequestrations and faculties 1932-2002.

Published Sources

J.P. Briscoe (ed.), Old Nottinghamshire (1881), pp.36-8 (1777 terrier).

J.P. Briscoe, The Monumental Brasses of Notts (no date), pp.29-31.

Calendar of Patent Rolls 1555-7 pp.544-6 (chantry).

J.C. Cox, County Churches: Nottinghamshire (1912), p.164.

George A. Dawson, The Church Bells of Nottinghamshire Part Three (1995), pp.182-3.

J.T. Godfrey, Notes on the Churches of Nottinghamshire: hundred of Bingham (1907), pp. 367-82.

E.L. Guilford, ‘Nottinghamshire in 1676', Transactions of the Thoroton Society 28 (1924), p.110.

Carl Harrison, ‘’Radcliffe Steeple Fell in 1792': or Did it?’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society 80 (1976), pp.69-72.

Douglas Harrison, The Methodist Church Shelford Road Radcliffe-on-Trent 1893-1993 (Ashbracken, 1992).

R.A. Marchant, ‘The Restoration of Nottinghamshire Churches 1635-40', Transactions of the Thoroton Society 65 (1961), p.82.

Nottingham Daily Guardian 27 Oct 1893.

Nottingham Journal 6 June 1767,15 February 1792, 3 March 1792, 24 November 1792, 23 April 1858, 3 January 1882.

P. Priestland and B. Cobbing (eds.), Village Life in Tudor and Stuart Times: a study of Radcliffe-on-Trent (Ashbracken,1996), pp.23-4, 36-45, 61-6, 75-6, 116-24, 135-42, 169-76 (St Mary’s from medieval to late Stuart periods); pp.114-5 (Jeffrey Limner); pp.125-6 (brass to Anne Ballard); p.134 (Protestation); p.243 (early wills).

P. Priestland (ed.), Radcliffe-on-Trent 1710-1837 (Ashbracken, revised edition 1990), pp.36-65 (St Mary’s); pp.66-75 (Methodism).

P. Priestland (ed.), Radcliffe-on-Trent 1837-1920: a study of a village during an era of change (Ashbracken, 1989), pp.42-72 (St Mary’s); pp.73-92 (Methodism ); pp. 297-9 (school); p.333 (War Memorial).

P. Priestland, articles in Link magazine, 1987-8.

Rev. Robert Simpson, M.A., State of the Church in the County of Nottingham and Diocese of York compiled from authentic sources with hints for its improvement (1836), p.36.

Stretton Mss (privately printed 1910), pp.84-5.

R. Thoroton (and J. Throsby), The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (republished 1972), vol I pp.182-7.

M.R. Watts (ed.), Religion in Victorian Nottinghamshire: the religious census of 1851 (University of Nottingham, Adult Education Department, 1988), vol. II pp.304-5.

W.F. Webster, Protestation Returns 1641/2 Notts/Derbys (1980), pp.43-44.

White’s Directory for 1844, 1864.

Yorkshire Archaeological Society: vol 77 (1930), Archbishop Herring’s Visitation 1743.