St Helena's Church, Thoroton is the
Church of England parish church of
Thoroton,
Nottinghamshire, England. The building is
Grade I listed
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by the
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as of outstanding architectural interest.
Heritage
The church is medieval – fragments of the East end date back to the 11th century
[ – although it was ]restored
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in 1868–1869 by the architect John Henry Hakewill, son of Henry Hakewill
Henry Hakewill (4 October 1771 – 13 March 1830) was an English architect.
Biography Early life
Henry Hakewell was a pupil of John Yenn, RA, and also studied at the Royal Academy, where in 1790 he was awarded a silver medal for a drawing of ...
. This involved rebuilding the chancel and re-roofing and re-seating the church. The 14th-century tower has a restored corbel
In architecture, a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, a type of bracket. A corbel is a solid piece of material in the wall, whereas a console is a piece applied to the s ...
table with masks and four gargoyles and an octagonal spire. Most of the stained glass dates from 1869. The vestry has been converted into a chapel. The plain round font
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In mod ...
there has a restored 14th-century base.[
The dedication (earlier to "St Helen") is to St Helena of Constantinople, mother of the first Christian Roman Emperor, Constantine. She was reputed to have found the True Cross while on a pilgrimage to the ]Holy Land
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in AD 326.
In the 17th and 18th centuries the church and its parish formed a chapelry
A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century.
Status
It had a similar status to a township but was so named as it had a chapel of ease (chapel) which was the communi ...
of Orston. The pre-restoration church was described architecturally by a visitor, Sir Stephen Glynne, on 12 April 1866, when it was in disrepair. The prompting for the restoration came on 27 April 1868, when it was badly damaged by lightning.
The church has a Latin slate tablet in memory of Gulielmi (i. e. William) Barrett (died 1760) and a marble war-memorial tablet (1919).[
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Parish structure
The church is in the Cranmer Group of parishes, which also includes St Thomas's Church, Aslockton
St. Thomas' Church, Aslockton is a late 19th-century Church of England parish church in the village of Aslockton, Nottinghamshire. The church is Grade II listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as a building of special ...
, the Church of St Mary and All Saints, Hawksworth, St Mary's Church, Orston, the Church of St John of Beverley, Scarrington, and
the Church of St John of Beverley, Whatton. Thoroton has a service at 9 am (Holy Communion or Matins) on the second Sunday of the month.[A Church Near Yo]
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References
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Church of England church buildings in Nottinghamshire
Grade I listed churches in Nottinghamshire
Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham