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St Lawrence Church (06). Gotham. March 2021

Church of St Lawrence. More in my photostream, take a look :)

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St. Lawrence's Church, is a Grade I Listed Parish Church, Gotham, Nottinghamshire. It has Norman Transitional style of architecture, The Parish Church dates from C12, C13, C14, C15, restored 1789, repaired 1869. One of its earliest incumbents was Robert de Nottingham (year unknown), in 1303 it was John de Gotham.

The east end is on a deeper plinth and has a single restored arched 3 light C15 window with cusped panel tracery, hood mould and label stops. Over is a plaque inscribed "Repaired in MDCCLXXXIX IK" (1789 UK). The Roman numeral MDCCLXXXIX corresponds to the Arabic number 1789.

 

For more information follow these links.

www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/tts/tts1924/summer/gotha...

southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/gotham/hhistory.php

 

Gotham is actually pronounced Goat-em and not, as many would presume, in the same way as the fictional city Batman calls home.

Read more here:

www.visit-nottinghamshire.co.uk/explore/rural-nottinghams...

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