St. Ann's Church, St. Ann's Well Road was a 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...

 church in Nottingham

Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...

 on St. Ann's Well Road between 1864 and 1971.

History

It was created out of the parish of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham

St. Mary's Church, Nottingham

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is the oldest religious foundation in the City of Nottingham, England, the largest church after the Roman Catholic Cathedral and the largest mediæval building in Nottingham....

 through the impetus of the vicar of St. Mary's, Joshua William Brooks

Joshua William Brooks

Joshua William Brooks, M.A. was born in 1790 and died 15 February 1882: he was a priest in the Church of England.-Family:Joshua William Brooks married Frances Summerscales on 1 January 1829 in Sandal Magna, West Riding of Yorkshire.-Career:...

. The trustees of the new church were Thomas Adams, lace manufacturer, Frances Butcher Gill, a philanthropic silk merchant, Robert Holden of Nuthall, Revd. Edmund Holland of Saxmundham, Revd. Charles Bridges.

The foundation stone was laid on the 23 September 1863 by Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers

Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers

Sydney William Herbert Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers was a British nobleman and politician.Born at Holme Pierrepont, he was the second surviving son of Charles Pierrepont, 2nd Earl Manvers. Educated at Eton, Pierrepont entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1843 and received his BA in 1846...

. The church was consecrated on 26 September 1864.

The first incumbent was Henry Jemson Tebbutt. He planned and built the daughter church of St. Andrew's Church, Mansfield Road

St. Andrew's Church, Nottingham

St. Andrew's Church Nottingham is a parish church in the Church of England.-Background:The church was built as a daughter church to St. Ann's Church, Nottingham between 1869 and 1871 by William Knight, and extended by S. R. Stevenson in 1884.-Incumbents:...

, which he moved to as first incumbent when it opened in 1870.

The second incumbent was James Dawson Lewis, a Cambridge scholar. During his thirty year incumbency the church was enlarged five times, and the school rooms enlarged fifteen times. He earned the nickname the "running parson" as he ran to meet people in trouble. He opened two daughter churches, St. Jude's Church, Mapperley

St. Jude's Church, Mapperley

St. Jude's Church Mapperley is a parish church in the Church of England.-History:The land for St. Jude's Church was given by the banking branch of the Wright family - Charles Ichabod Wright, Henry Smith Wright, Frederick and Theodoria Wright....

, and Emmanuel Church, Woodborough Road

Emmanuel Church, Woodborough Road

Emmanuel Church, Nottingham was a Church of England church in Nottingham on Woodborough Road between 1883 and 1972.-History:It was built to designs by the local architect Watson Fothergill and consecrated on 27 January 1885. There were 600 free seats, and a parish of 6,000...

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St. Bartholomew's Church, Nottingham

St. Bartholomew's Church, Nottingham

St. Bartholomew's Church, Nottingham was a Church of England church in Nottingham on Blue Bell Hill Road between 1902 and 1971.-History:The church was built to designs started by John Loughborough Pearson and completed by his son. Frank Loughborough Pearson....

 was formed out of this parish in 1902.

Closure

The church was demolished in 1971 as part of the re-development of the St. Ann's area and the parish combined with Emmanuel Church to form a new church of St. Ann with Emmanuel, Nottingham

St. Ann with Emmanuel, Nottingham

St. Ann with Emmanuel Church, Nottingham is a parish church in the Church of England in St Ann's, Nottingham.-History:St. Ann with Emmanuel was opened in 1974. It replaced two previous churches of St. Ann's Church, Nottingham and Emmanuel Church, Woodborough Road .-External links:*...

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Former burial records

After the closure of the church many of the head stones were removed and taken to their current location. The following records are of the current stones that remain in the rest garden off Bath Street.

ALLINSON, Georgiana / HARRINGTON, Elizabeth / GARROWAY, Harriett / MELLWOOD, Caroline / ALLMAN, George / ALMOND, ? / DASOTT, Sarah / ALPORT, Margaret / SIMKINS, Esther / ALLWRIGHT, Unus / HACKMAN, Hannah / SALLUM, Henry