St Saviour's Church, Retford

St Saviour's Church, Retford is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of EnglandThe Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire: Nikolaus Pevsner. in Retford.

History

The church dates from 1829. It was consecrated on 27 September 1829 by the Rt. Revd. Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt Archbishop of York as a daughter church of St John the Baptist Church, Clarborough, the church became a parish in its own right in 1871. It was restored in 1878. In 2002 it was united with St Swithun's and St Michael's in Retford to become a joint parish. Following further re-organisation, St. Saviour's became a single parish again in 2019 covering much of the east side of Retford.

Two stained glass memorial windows are by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Clergy

Joshua William Brooks 1827 - 1843 Charles Hodge 1844 - 1858 James Disney 1860 - 1876 Lawrence Roworth 1877 - 1913 Edwin Paxton 1914 - 1927 Frederic Eddy 1927 - 1930 Edward Hester 1931 - 1933 Lawrence Ashcroft 1934 - 1943 James Godsmark 1943 - 1955 Thomas Womack 1956 - 1967 John Moore 1967 - 1973 John Tompkins 1973 - 1987 Tony Walker 1988 - 2017 Ben Clayton 2018–2024

See also Listed buildings in Retford

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