The Church of St John of Beverley is a 13th-century parish church of the Church of England, in the village of Scarrington, Nottinghamshire. It has been

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by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

History

The medieval church, dating from the 13th century, was

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by J. H. Hakewill in 1867–1869. Nikolaus Pevsner: ''The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire'' (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1979), p. 304. It was 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 St Mary's at Orston until 1867, and then formed a new parish under a vicar with Aslockton until 1910, when it was joined with Hawksworth, while Aslockton was returned to an earlier affiliation to Whatton.''A Short Guide to the Parish Churches of the Bingham Rural Deanery'', eds G. R. D. McLean and J. Pickworth-Hutchinson (Bingham, UK: Bingham Deanery Chapter, 1963). St John of Beverley's was described in 1866 as having a tower and spire and a nave and chancel. The south aisle had been removed in 1802 and the south arcade walled up with bricks. The 1867 restoration included a new south aisle. The vestry was also added in the 19th century, as were the chancel arch and

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. The small Restoration-period font replaced one removed by the Puritans. The bowl of another font found later, now placed at the east end of the south aisle, may or may not be the original one.

Parish structure

The church belongs to the

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as one of the Cranmer Group of parishes, which 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 ...

* Church of St Mary and All Saints, Hawksworth *

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* Church of St John of Beverley, Whatton *St Mary's Church, Orston The incumbent of the group is Rev. Tim Chambers.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scarrington, Church Of St John Of Beverley Church of England church buildings in Nottinghamshire Grade I listed churches in Nottinghamshire Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham