Radford St Peter

Features and Fittings

Pulpit

There is a plaque on the steps to celebrate the tenth birthday of the 2nd Nottingham (St Peter’s) Guide Company.

Dedication on the
Padgett Bible

The Padgett Bible

This was formerly kept on the lectern and used during services. It is dedicated to the memory of Brian Padgett, a choir boy and server at St Peter’s who gave his life attempting to save the life of his father during a house fire on 14 July 1975. The Padgett Bible is still in use today.

The eagle lectern
(before it was
stolen)		 The current
reading desk /
lectern

The Eagle Lectern

This was originally in St Christopher’s Church Sneinton, and it was one of the few items to survive when that church was burned to the ground by enemy bombs on 10 May 1941. The lectern was later brought to St Peter’s Old Radford. It was sited at the front of the church near to the front, but unfortunately was stolen in September 1994 along with other valuable items of church brass. Some of these were later recovered, but Eagle Lectern was not, though it is thought that it was thrown into the River Leen.

Glass Panels

The glass panels at the west end of the church depict scenes from the life of St Peter.

Parish Registers

The earliest volume is headed ‘The Regester Bouke of ye Parish Church of Old Radford beginning at ye yere of our Lorde 1563’. The 15th century portion is as usual a copy of the original register, which would be of paper, such copying being done c1600. There is evidene of a direct transcription since at th end of the year 1579 is written ‘finis’ below which again is written ‘The Register of ye names are not to be found in ye booke until such tyme as Mr Thornley came to be Vicar of Radforde who did collect this much out of the ould register book’.

This first register volume is deficient to some extent perhaps as a result of leaves having been extracted, very likely to save copying the records of single ceremonies. But a single baptism is recorded in each of the following years 1584, 1585, 1587, and 1596 and there are none whatever in any of the remaining years between the first and last named; neither are there any further baptisms recorded until 1600, when three occur. There are none in the year following and only two in 1602, three in 1603 and a very few 1604-07. In 1613 the normal register seems to be resumed again. The entries included: 1569: ‘noe marriages at all. 24 February 1570: ‘Tho Lewis was buryed. A pore man of Lecest died at ye top of ye hill towards Nottingham’.

The later burials are deficient, only three being mentioned in 1602 and four in 1605. The spaces headed for the years 1603, 1604 and 1640(???) are blanks. They begin again regularly in 1613.

Other Items in the Church

Font Reading desk The Missionary Roll