Image ID: 12601

St Edmund's Church, Church Street and Priory Road, Mansfield Woodhouse, c 1900

Courtesy of Mansfield Museum and Art Gallery

Church Street and Priory Road
Mansfield Woodhouse
England

Mansfield Woodhouse parish church of St Edmund is the chief feature of the town. It stands on the ancient site of two predecessors and consists of a nave, two aisles and a tower. The tower is from an older church and is largely of fourteenth century design. The earlier history of the church is scanty, but probably a wooden church stood here in the eleventh century and this was most likely the one mentioned by William Rufus in the charter giving the churches of Oarston, Chesterfield, Ashbourne and Mansfield to the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lincoln. When the present church was built it had three aisles, but one of these was later destroyed by fire. In 1850 the nave and aisles were rebuilt, and in 1878 restorations were executed. The fourteenth century tower is capped by a noble spire which is 108 feet in height. Within the tower are four saints' bells which date mostly from the late seventeenth century. In 1892, two further bells were added and dedicated by the Bishop Suffragan of Derby. Both these bells were from the well known Taylor's foundry at Loughborough.

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