Rempstone All Saints

References

Archival Sources

Nottinghamshire Archives Office

Archdeaconry Act Books DDTS 1-25.

Day Books:   DR1/1/3/2 p. 239
    DR1/1/3/3 pp. 141, 216
    DR1/1/3/4 pp. 118, 242, 361
    DR1/1/5/1 p.357
    DR1/1/5/2 p.270
    DR1 /1/5/3 p.338

Parish Registers: Rempstone.

Bishops Transcripts: Rempstone.

Faculties PR 21432/1-11.

1   Replace pews and other alterations, 13 November 1907
2   Great War memorial tablet, 18 August 1920
3   Electric lighting installation, 12 August 1931
4   Reservation of grave for Job N Derbyshire, 17 March 1937
5   Litany desk in memory of George W Hibert, churchwarden, 3 January 1940
6   Bell chiming apparatus, 22 February 1952. Letter from John Taylor, Bell Founders, Loughborough, 10 April 1952
7   Reservation of grave for Mary J Gibson, 11 June 1953
8   Electric heating, 13 December 1958
9   Mowing churchyard, 12 May 1966
10   Bell restoration, 15 August 1974
11   Lead gutter and flashing replacement, 29 June 1977

Southwell Diocese donations:

Surveyors report, 5 Oct 1893; letter dated 16 Nov 1893.

Southwell Diocesan Calendar (1932).

Quarter Sessions Act Books QSMI/1-12.

Wills & Inventories, various: Rempstone.

Census Returns: 1841-1891.

Miscellaneous: Deeds. Miscellaneous: Deeds.

Nottingham University Manuscripts Department

Archdeaconry Act Books A39-47

Induction Mandates

Middleton MSS

Manvers MSS

Church of England Records Centre

38/103:   Main file containing official Articles of Enquiry for 1832, 1872, 1877 and 1923
38/55B 59813   Articles of Enquiry, 1822
38/55B 59813   Augmentation, 1926
38/55B 28/55H   David Walter Skyme James, rector of East Leake, curate of Rempstone, etc. 12 January 1977
38/55B F59813   8481
59,804   Sale of Glebe
59813   Part ½ Augmentation. Chafy fund, 12,13 January 1926
59813   sub-file 14246 2⁄3
84,773   Contains maps and drawings of glebe land, also illustrating mineral rights beneath the glebe, for 1913, 1923, 1937. Sale of 1927 gives details of interested parties, the incumbent, patron and buyer.

Lambeth Palace Library

Act Books of the Archbishop of Canterbury 1663-1859. xiv, 199

Lincolnshire Archives Office

Non-resident licences, bundles 5/12 (1841), 12/7 (1848)

Presentation Deeds, 198/5 (1842), 203/6 (1847), 216/32 (1860), 217/36 (1861), 229/26 (1873), 237B/7 (1883)

Mortgages under Gilbert’s Act (MGA) 336 (1849), plans

Resignations, 245/10 (1861), 247/26 (1873), 248/14 (1883)

Borthwick Institute, York

Probate wills and inventories

Archbishop’s Registers

Archbishop’s Visitations

Published Sources

C J Brooke, A Survey of NottinghamshireChurchBell Frames: An Interim Report, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, LXXXVII (1983), pp. 46-53.

J D Chambers, Nottinghamshire in the 18th Century (1932), pp. 84-5, 164, 343.

H H Copnall, NottinghamshireCounty Records (1915).

J C Cox, Churches in Nottinghamshire (1912), p. 99. Also notes in an annotated interleaved copy of this book in Southwell Minster library.

Crockford’s, Clerical Directories: 1865, 1868, 1888, 1898, 1908, p. 641, 1927-8, p. 394, 1938, p. 359, 1948, 1957-8, 1959-60, p. 312, 1977-8, 2000-01.

G A Dawson, Church Bells of Nottinghamshire (1995), pp. 188-9.

J Foster, Alumni Oxonienses (1968).

William Powell Hunt, Memoir (1845). Nottingham. Central Library reference,

J T Godfrey, Notes on the Churches of Nottinghamshire. Hundred of Rushcliffe (1887), pp. 221-31.

A Mee (Ed), The King's England, Nottinghamshire (1989), p. 240.

Nottinghamshire Family History Society. Gravestones recorded at All Saints, Rempstone from 1776 to 1977.

W Stretton, Stretton Manuscripts (Nottingham, 1910), p. 181.

R Thoroton, (ed. by Throsby, J.), The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (1790-96).

M Watts, Religion in Victorian Nottinghamshire: The Religious Census of 1851 (1988), (2 vols.) p. xvii (2 refs.).

J A Venn, Alumni Cartabrigiensis 1752-1900 (Cambridge, 1953) pt. II, vol. III, G-J, p. 450 quoting Walker I A 360 Cant. Act Bk.; Foster, Index Eccles.

F White, History, Directory and Gazetteer: Nottinghamshire (1853).

P M White, Notes on the buildings of Rempstone (1988), Nottingham Central Library reference, L90.2 REMP. A brief was issued under the authority of George III for the demolition of the old church and for arranging for subscription to build the new church.

A descriptive leaflet of All Saint Parish Church, Rempstone gives useful information on the glass windows.

A 1966 inscription by Marion Roberts, which is hung in the church, gives a brief history of the two churches including the churchyard.

I am indebted to Alan Wilson, the churchwarden, for information on the priest in charge and assistant priests at Rempstone from 1970 to 2008.