St Luke's Church, Stoke Bardolph is a parish church in the

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Stoke Bardolph Stoke Bardolph is a village and civil parish in the Gedling district of Nottinghamshire. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 170. It is to the east of Nottingham, and on the west bank of the River Trent. Nearby plac ...

History

The church is built of plain brick dating from 1844, with alterations and extension to the chancel of 1910. It is in a joint parish with two other churches: *

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* St Helen's Church, Burton Joyce Rev. Thomas Arnold Lee was born in 1889. He was a

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graduate who had taught in schools in

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and

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; he had also served as a curate in

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and at

. During the

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he had been a chaplain to HM Forces...in 1948 (he became) rector of

Gedling Gedling is a village in the Gedling district, in Nottinghamshire, England, four miles northeast of Nottingham city centre. The population at the 2011 census of the ward was 6,817 and 111,787 for the district. Gedling was recorded in the Domes ...

with Stoke Bardolph (1948–57), and was made a canon of Southwell in 1955. He then retired to

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, where he was vicar of

Grendon Underwood Grendon Underwood is a village and civil parish in west Buckinghamshire, England, near the border with Oxfordshire. The village sits between Woodham and Edgcott, near the Roman road Akeman Street (now part of the A41), and around north-west o ...

and Edgcott 1957–61. He died in 1972.The Rectors of St Peter's (1853-today) - St Peter's Church, Nottingham, England on-line magazine

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