St Michael's Church, Farnsfield 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, ...

Farnsfield Farnsfield is a large Village#United Kingdom, village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire in Sherwood Forest. It is in the local government district of Newark and Sherwood. The population of the civil parish as at the United Kingdom Census 20 ...

History

The church dates from the 15th century but was rebuilt between 1859 and 1860 by

Thomas Chambers Hine Thomas Chambers Hine (31 May 1813 – 6 February 1899) was an architect based in Nottingham. Background He was born in Covent Garden into a prosperous middle-class family, the eldest son of Jonathan Hine (1780–1862), a hosiery manufacturer and ...

and Robert Evans following a fire. Only a fragment of the tower from the 15th-century building survives.

Organ

The organ is by

James Jepson Binns James Jepson Binns (c. 1855–11 March 1928) was a pipe organ builder based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Organs Pipe organs at the following locations were either built or rebuilt by James Jepson Binns or his JJ Binns company. A number of ...

. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Farnsfield Church of England church buildings in Nottinghamshire Grade II listed churches in Nottinghamshire Churches completed in 1860

History

Organ

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