St. Helen's Church, Selston 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 Selston

Selston

Selston is a hilltop village and civil parish in the District of Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, England. At the time of the 2001 census it had a population of 12,208 St Helen's Church dates back to 1150 AD although the exterior of the church was altered by restoration and enlargement in 1899...

, 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 particularly significant building of more than local interest.

History

The church is medieval but was rebuilt in 1899.

In the churchyard there is a monolith

Monolith

A monolith is a geological feature such as a mountain, consisting of a single massive stone or rock, or a single piece of rock placed as, or within, a monument...

 of the type found in Derbyshire stone circles which suggests that the site was used for pagan worship before the church was built. The churchyard houses the grave of Daniel Boswell King of the Gypsies

King of the Gypsies

The title King of the Gypsies has been claimed or given over the centuries to many different people. It is both culturally and geographically specific. It may be inherited, acquired by acclamation or action, or simply claimed. The extent of the power associated with the title varied; it might be...

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Incumbents

• 1176 Adam
• 1244 Roger del Clay
• 1252 Verasour de Wansley
• 1287 John de Gateyford
• 1290 Robert de Gateyford
• 1310 Thomas de Hothum
• 1321 William de Ilkeston
• 1322 John de Kendale
• 1324 William de Leston
• 1339 William de Ros
• 1344 John Dell Hill de Panvil
• 1344 John de Arnale
• 1363 John Sheperly
• 1363 Henry Barton
• 1434 John Eyswayte
• 1434 Richard Twigge
• 1446 Richard Holt
• 1456 John Day

• 1483 John Derman
• 1490 John Wilson
• 1525 Rd. Martyn
• 1550 Nicholas Walker
• 1575 Thomas Taylor
• 1605 Thomas Mylner
• 1611 George Longden
• 1614 Peter Parote
• 1615 Franc Stephenson
• 1621 William Williamson
• 1624 Thomas Bowcher
• 1631 Henry Denham
• 1650 Samuel Sildon
• 1653 Charles Jackson
• 1662 William Pearson
• 1669 Nicholas Sore
• 1669 Robert Hettcliffe
• 1699 J Cooper (curate)

• 1713 J Cooper (called vicar)
• 1754 Anthony Carr
• 1805 I Pepper
• 1838 F Churchill
• 1843 J Hides
• 1855 George Frederick Williamson
• 1856 Robert John William Wright
• 1887 Charles Harrison
• 1916 Richard Dudley Weller
• 1924 Philip H Hart
• 1929 Palmer Allison Sharp
• 1936 Henry Wright Schofield
• 1945 Edward Frederick H Dunnicliffe
• 1949 Hugh Bickersteth Biddell
• 1956 Gerald Nettleton Pearce
• 1962 Hubert Victor Simmons
• 1978 John Frederick Jacklin
• 1996 Robert White Yule
• 2001 Timothy Mitchell
• 2006 Fiona Shouler