St Giles’ Church, Ollerton is a
Grade II listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, H ...
parish church in the
Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the State religion#State churches, established List of Christian denominations, Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the mother church of the Anglicanism, Anglican Christian tradition, ...
in
Ollerton
Ollerton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ollerton and Boughton, in the Newark and Sherwood district, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England, on the edge of Sherwood Forest in the area known as the Dukeries. The p ...
,
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated ''Notts.'') is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. The county is bordered by South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. Th ...
, England.
History
The church dates from around 1790. A new clock was fixed in the tower in 1875. It included Cambridge quarter chimes and was built by the company
Thwaites & Reed
Thwaites & Reed has been in continuous manufacture since its foundation and claims to be the oldest clock manufacturing company in the world. Geoffrey Buggins MBE, the last of the original family clockmakers, saw drawings of Thwaites clocks dati ...
.
Parish status
The church is in a joint parish with
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St Matthew's Church, Boughton
St Matthew's Church, Boughton is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Boughton, Nottinghamshire
Boughton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ollerton and Boughton, in the Newark and Sherwood dist ...
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St Paulinus' Church, New Ollerton
See also
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Listed buildings in Ollerton and Boughton
Ollerton and Boughton is a civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. The parish contains 22 Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of ...
References
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Church of England church buildings in Nottinghamshire
Grade II listed churches in Nottinghamshire