Church of St. Mary and All Angels, Bingham
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The Church of St. Mary and All Saints, Bingham is a parish church
Parish church
A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....

 in the Church of England
Church of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...

 in Bingham, Nottinghamshire
Bingham, Nottinghamshire
Bingham is a market town in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England.-Geography:With a population of around 9,000 people it lies about nine miles east of Nottingham, a similar distance south-west of Newark-on-Trent and west of Grantham. It is situated where the A46 intersects the A52...

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The church is Grade I listed by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport as a building of outstanding architectural or historic interest.

History

The church is medieval. It was restored
Victorian restoration
Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria...

 by George Gilbert Scott
George Gilbert Scott
Sir George Gilbert Scott was an English architect of the Victorian Age, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches, cathedrals and workhouses...

 in 1845 and 1846 with further work by W. D. Caroe in 1912.

Features

The lychgate of 1881 was designed by George Francis Miles
Frank Miles
George Francis "Frank" Miles was a London artist who specialised in pastel portraits of society ladies, also an architect and a keen plantsman.-Life and career:...

, son of Revd Robert Miles, Rector.

Incumbents

  • Richard Wyot 1519 - 1522
  • John Hanmer ???? - 1624
  • Matthew Wren 1624 - ????
  • Samuel Brunsell ???? - 1687
  • Robert Lowe ca. 1841
  • Canon Robert Henry William Miles, 1845–1883
  • Revd Percy H Droosten 1884 - 1909
  • John Reay
  • Canon H. R. M. Hutt ca. 1932
  • Bishop Morris Gelsthorpe 1953 - 1963 formerly Bishop of Sudan
  • Revd H A Kirton 1963 - ????
  • Revd David Keene
  • Revd David Swain 1982 - 1994

Source

  • The Buildings of England, Nottinghamshire. Nikolaus Pevsner
    Nikolaus Pevsner
    Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, CBE, FBA was a German-born British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of architecture...

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