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Churches which still retain west gallery features or connections |
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| Blidworth, St Mary of the Purification | The church is said to have a Georgian pulpit, but no further details are known. |
| Elston Chapel, Dedication unknown | A chapel in a field, entirely un-restored, 12th and 14th C. The interior is ca. 1820, with a west gallery of that date. |
| Papplewick, St James | "The County's best example of Georgian Gothick. It lies in a wood half a mile from the village, at the end of a lane, guarded by two sets of gates. Tower 14th C., but the rest is 1795. The porch is as high as the nave. Inside there is a plastered ceiling. A gallery, with fireplace, extends over the north side of the nave, and gives a cramped, but cosy, effect. Period features include the pulpit, the Royal Arms at the west end, . . . Lighting [in 1985] is by candles only - ideally they should be in silver sconces; actually they are in wrought-iron undulations down the underside of the gallery - a very 20th C. 'arty-crafty' touch." (CEPC) |
| Strelley, All Saints | The church contains a Jacobean pulpit with tester. No further details known. |
| Teversal, St Katherine | 12th and 13th C. church restored in 17th and 18th C., when its interior was refurbished. The west gallery has a "modest" organ, - solid, traditional, Anglican furnishing. The pulpit is low, for there were never side galleries, and the box-pews have seating strips of red baize. The Molyneux pew in the south aisle is roofed, and has barley-sugar columns; four red velvet cushions, emblazoned with a cross molin on a blue shield, are provided for the noble family; a 1784 Prayer Book and an 1822 Bible are covered in similar style. . . . In the choir are miniature three-a-side box-pews . . . there is a feeling of deep peace . . .(CEPC) |
| Tythby, Dedication not known | The church has an 18th C. west gallery. |
| West Stockwith, The Blessed Virgin Mary | The church was built in 1722, in classical style in brick. Nothing is known of its furnishings . . . Chapel of Ease to Miserton. |
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Churches which are known to have had west gallery features or connections |
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| Basford, St Leodegarius | In 1818/19 repairs were undertaken and a gallery installed in the south aisle and across the west end. Edward Staveley, a prominent Nottingham architect, surveyed the church and estimated the cost of new box pews, pulpit, reading desk, clerk's desk, gallery, raising the floor and repairing walls to be £850. Gallery removed 1860s. |
| Lowdham, St Mary | Used to have a west gallery across the end of the nave and both aisles, the holes for the joists quite clearly visible. |
| Nottingham, St Leodegarious, Basford | SK 553427. In 1818/19 repairs were undertaken and a gallery installed in the south aisle and across the west end. In 1860 the church was re-opened after drastic alterations. Besides the tower the flat roofs had been raised to a steeper pitch, there was a new north aisle, north porch, organ chamber and clerestory, and the west end of the nave and the south aisle had been re-built. Galleries were removed and the box pews replaced by open benches, some of which are still at the back of the nave. |
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