St. Andrew's Church, Skegby
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St. Andrew's Church, Skegby is a parish church
in the Church of England
in Skegby
, Nottinghamshire
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The church is Grade II listed by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport as it is a building of special architectural or historic interest.
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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 Skegby
Skegby
Skegby is a small village in the Ashfield district of Nottinghamshire, England, located two miles west of Mansfield and one mile north of Sutton-in-Ashfield, close to Stanton Hill lying on the B6014 road. Skegby sits on both sides of a deep valley near the source of the River Meden...
, Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...
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The church is Grade II listed by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport as it is a building of special architectural or historic interest.
History
The church is medieval.. It is set on a hill overlooking the village and is mentioned in the Domesday BookDomesday Book
Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...
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Parish Structure
The church is in a group of parishes which includes- St. Andrew's Church, Skegby
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