Church

St George, Barton in Fabis

St George, Barton in Fabis

St George’s is a Grade I parish church on Church Lane, Barton in Fabis, Nottinghamshire, in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham.

Location
Barton in Fabis, Nottinghamshire
Country
England
County
Nottinghamshire
City / town
Barton in Fabis
Address
Church Lane, Barton in Fabis, Nottinghamshire, NG11 0OB
Postcode
NG11 0OB
Built
C14–C15; porch 1693; restored 1855 and 1877
Architect
T C Hine (restoration 1855 and 1877); Charles Marriott Oldrid Scott (nave roof and parapet, 1931–34)
Denomination
Church of England
Dedication
George
Diocese
Southwell and Nottingham
Parish
Barton in Fabis
Grade
I
Style
Decorated and Perpendicular Gothic
Materials
Dressed coursed rubble and ashlar; slate roofs
Grid reference
SK 522 327
Opening hours
Every day from 9am to 5pm. On the 2nd Tuesday of the month tea and cake is available in church from 2pm to 4pm.
Access
Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby

Overview

Historic England records a parish church of the fourteenth, fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, with work of 1693, restorations of 1855 and 1877 probably by T. C. Hine, further work in 1886, and a tower restoration in 1892. Fabric is dressed coursed rubble and ashlar under slate roofs, with parapets and coped gables. The plan is a tower with spire, nave, south aisle, south porch and chancel. The fourteenth-century single-stage tower is embattled and angle-buttressed, with an attached circular stair turret; the early-fifteenth-century spire has lucarnes.

The Nottinghamshire HER, following Pevsner, dates the unaisled chancel and south arcade to the late fourteenth century, a clerestory of different rhythm to the fifteenth, and the ashlar west tower to the Bunny type of the later fourteenth century. The porch was added in 1693. Wikipedia records nave-roof and parapet repairs of 1931–34 by Charles Marriott Oldrid Scott, architect, and Thomas Long, builder. Notable monuments include Sacheverell tombs, among them William and Tabitha Sacheverell (he d. 1616). There is a Jacobean pulpit.

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