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

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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: * Holy Trinity Church, Bulcote * St Helen's Church, Burton Joyce Rev. Thomas Arnold Lee was born in 1889. He was a Durham 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 and former civil parish which gives its name to the larger Borough of Gedling in Nottinghamshire, England. It lies north-east of Nottingham city centre. The parish was abolished in 1935 and absorbed into the urban distr ...

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 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

References

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