St. Mary's Church, Wollaton Park, is a

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in the

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. It is located in

Wollaton Wollaton is a suburb and former civil parish in the western part of Nottingham, in the Nottingham district, in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire, England. Wollaton has two wards in the City of Nottingham (''Wollaton East & Lenton Abbey'' ...

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History

St. Mary's Wollaton Park was designed by the architect

Thomas Cecil Howitt Thomas Cecil Howitt, OBE (6 June 1889 – 3 September 1968) was a British provincial architect of the 20th Century. Howitt is chiefly remembered for designing prominent public buildings, such as the Council House and Processional Way in N ...

and was opened in 1939. The church was originally served by curates from Holy Trinity Church, Lenton, but in 1957 it became a parish church in its own right.

List of incumbents

* Revd E. Strickland * ? * Revd Robin Fletcher, c. 1963-1973 * Revd Malcolm Kitchen c. 1973-1988 * Revd Frank Sudworth * ? * Revd Henry Curran 2007–2021 * Revd Robert Brewis 2023-Present

Controversies

In December 2024, a Bishop Disciplinary Tribunal found that the Revd Henry Curran's conduct was unbecoming or inappropriate to the office and work of a clerk in Holy Orders. At his time at St Mary's he exhibited coercive and controlling behaviour, showed an unacceptable lack of self-control in failing to control his anger towards parishioners and failed to put in place and/or maintain appropriate professional and pastoral boundaries by allowing incidences of inappropriate nudity to take place.

Features

It contains a font which is modelled on the 12th century one from

Lenton Priory Lenton Priory was a Cluniac monastic house in Nottinghamshire, founded by William Peverel ''circa 1102-8''. The priory was granted a large endowment of property in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire by its founder, which became the cause of violent d ...

now in Holy Trinity Church, Lenton.

Organ

The organ was built by J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd in 1938. The instrument has been erected in a divided position at the west end of the church, the detached console being placed at rear of the choir stalls on the south side of the chancel.

Organists

*Dennis Marriot 1938-1941 from Holy Trinity Church, Lenton *Mr. Towlson 1942 *Mr. Whitehead 1943-1951 *Mr. Williams 1952 *Mr. Baker 1953-1956 *David Reynolds 1957-1965 *P.L. Noble 1965 *Mr. Kirk 1966-1968 *Peter Price 1968-1974 *Mr. Welton 1974 *Mr. Beck 1974- *Mrs. C. Smith 1977 *Mr. D Laregrove 1981

References

*''The Buildings of England, Nottinghamshire''.

Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (195 ...

External links

See St. Mary's Church on Google Street View
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wollaton Park, Saint Marys Church Churches in Nottingham Grade II listed churches in Nottinghamshire Churches completed in 1939 20th-century Church of England church buildings Church of England church buildings in Nottinghamshire Conservative evangelical Anglican churches in England