St. Mary's Church, Westwood is a

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in the

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in Jacksdale,

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History

The church was built in 1898 to the designs of the architect Percy Heylyn Currey to serve the expanding mining villages.

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provided the land and James Oakes provided funding. The church cost £2,000. Although the church is in Jacksdale, it takes its name from the village of Westwood where services were held at the village school for 30 years before the church was built.More Churches in the Ashfield Area. Ashfield District Council.

Current parish status

It is a daughter church to St. Helen's Church, Selston.

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Westwood, St Mary Churches completed in 1898 19th-century Church of England church buildings Church of England church buildings in Nottinghamshire 1898 establishments in England