St Peter And St Paul's Church, Upton
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St Peter and St Paul's Church is a
Grade I 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, Hi ...
parish church in the
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in
Upton, Newark and Sherwood Upton is a small village in Nottinghamshire, England, east of Southwell, Nottinghamshire, Southwell, west of Newark-on-Trent, Newark and south of Hockerton; it lies on the A612 Nottingham-Newark-on-Trent, Newark road. In 1889, the village wa ...
,
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 ...
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History

The church dates form the 13th century. It was restored in 1820, 1867 and then in 1893 by
Charles Hodgson Fowler Charles Hodgson Fowler (2 March 1840 – 14 December 1910) was a prolific English ecclesiology, ecclesiastical architect who specialised in building and, especially, Victorian restoration, restoring churches. Life He was born in Nottinghamshir ...
. The church is in a joint parish with: *
St Denis' Church, Morton St Denis' Church, Morton is a Grade II* listed 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 Cro ...
* Holy Trinity Church, Rolleston


Organ

The current organ dates from 1900 and was built by
Gray and Davison Gray & Davison was a large-scale manufacturer of church and cathedral pipe organ The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a Musical keyboar ...
. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.


See also

*
Grade I listed buildings in Nottinghamshire There are over 9,000 Grade I listed buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildings in the county of Nottinghamshire, by district. Ashfield Bassetlaw Broxtowe City of N ...
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Listed buildings in Upton, Newark and Sherwood Upton, Newark and Sherwood, Upton is a civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. The parish contains 24 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at ...


References

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