St Luke's Church, Stoke Bardolph Explained

St Luke's Church, Stoke Bardolph
Coordinates:52.968°N -1.039°W
Location:Stoke Bardolph
Country:England
Denomination:Church of England
Dedication:St Luke
Parish:Stoke Bardolph
Deanery:Gedling
Archdeaconry:Nottingham
Diocese:Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham

St Luke's Church, Stoke Bardolph is a parish church in the Church of England[1] in Stoke Bardolph.

History

The church is built of plain brick dating from 1844, with alterations and extension to the chancel of 1910.

It is in a joint parish with two other churches:

Rev. Thomas Arnold Lee was born in 1889. He was a Durham graduate who had taught in schools in Cambridge, Singapore and Leeds; he had also served as a curate in Southwark Cathedral and at Leeds. During the First World War he had been a chaplain to HM Forces...in 1948 (he became) rector of Gedling with Stoke Bardolph (1948–57), and was made a canon of Southwell in 1955. He then retired to Buckinghamshire, where he was vicar of Grendon Underwood and Edgcott 1957–61. He died in 1972.[2]

Notes and References

  1. The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire: Nikolaus Pevsner.
  2. http://www.stpetersnottingham.org/history/rectors4.htm The Rectors of St Peter's (1853-today) - St Peter's Church, Nottingham, England on-line magazine