Ready to be recycled - Hockerton Nottinghamshire
12c - 14c Church of St Giles, Hockerton Nottinghamshire www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3t8bu3 - a church is mentioned here in the 1086 Domeday survey.
12c survivors are the chancel arch and north doorway flic.kr/p/RmMTUR
In 1291 the patronage was in the hands of John le Botelier,
In 1300 Ralph de Hertford was made vicar, he was still here in 1330 when chaplain Henry Asselyn of Halam came to help, Ralph being by then "old, totally blind and physically incapable"
In the reign of catholic Queen Mary Tudor , rector John Addams was deprived of his position which went to a catholic priest Thomas Huddleston, Addams being reinstated in 1559 after the accession of protestant Queen Elizabeth.
Being near the Royalist stronghold of Newark, the building was damaged during the mid 17c Civil War. In 1680 Charles ll was petitioned and a grant of 50 oaks from Sherwood forest was used to repair the "much decayed and rotten" roof.
Rector James Gibson in 1734 was paid £16 per annum to look after Kirklington and Hockerton and begged the archbishop on his visit that this was "an income which I hope your grace will not think overmuch for a clergyman, even in celibacy, to live with a little decency and some sort of independency"
By 1852 the walls, roofs, floors and windows were ‘extremely dilapidated.’
The last major restoration was by architect James Fowler in 1876, the chancel was re-roofed and the east gable rebuilt, also the nave roof was restored, gallery removed and new pews installed.
In need of care and attention flic.kr/p/QY6LJ9 flic.kr/p/QY6LK1 - At the time of my visit in April 2016 plans were underway to close the church and combine the parish with Kirklington. The church was to be "appropriated to use as an art studio for educational purposes and for community and cultural purposes ancillary thereto"
Ready to be recycled - Hockerton Nottinghamshire
12c - 14c Church of St Giles, Hockerton Nottinghamshire www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3t8bu3 - a church is mentioned here in the 1086 Domeday survey.
12c survivors are the chancel arch and north doorway flic.kr/p/RmMTUR
In 1291 the patronage was in the hands of John le Botelier,
In 1300 Ralph de Hertford was made vicar, he was still here in 1330 when chaplain Henry Asselyn of Halam came to help, Ralph being by then "old, totally blind and physically incapable"
In the reign of catholic Queen Mary Tudor , rector John Addams was deprived of his position which went to a catholic priest Thomas Huddleston, Addams being reinstated in 1559 after the accession of protestant Queen Elizabeth.
Being near the Royalist stronghold of Newark, the building was damaged during the mid 17c Civil War. In 1680 Charles ll was petitioned and a grant of 50 oaks from Sherwood forest was used to repair the "much decayed and rotten" roof.
Rector James Gibson in 1734 was paid £16 per annum to look after Kirklington and Hockerton and begged the archbishop on his visit that this was "an income which I hope your grace will not think overmuch for a clergyman, even in celibacy, to live with a little decency and some sort of independency"
By 1852 the walls, roofs, floors and windows were ‘extremely dilapidated.’
The last major restoration was by architect James Fowler in 1876, the chancel was re-roofed and the east gable rebuilt, also the nave roof was restored, gallery removed and new pews installed.
In need of care and attention flic.kr/p/QY6LJ9 flic.kr/p/QY6LK1 - At the time of my visit in April 2016 plans were underway to close the church and combine the parish with Kirklington. The church was to be "appropriated to use as an art studio for educational purposes and for community and cultural purposes ancillary thereto"