Church

St George in the Meadows, Nottingham

Nottingham

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St George in the Meadows is a parish church in the Church of England in The Meadows, Nottingham, England.The church is Grade II listed by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport as it is a building of special architectural or historic interest.HistoryThe foundation stone was laid on 8 July 1887 by Henry Smith Wright MP The parish was carved out of that of St Saviours in the Meadows, Nottingham. The nave of the church was consecrated on 12 June 1888 by the Rt. Revd. Dr. Edward Trollope, Bishop of Nottingham, acting for the Bishop of Southwell. The nave was designed by Richard Charles Sutton.The chancel was consecrated by the Bishop of Derby on 16 April 1898. It was designed by George Frederick Bodley and erected at a cost of £2,000.The Lady Chapel was intended to be built to the designs of Bodley, but Cecil Greenwood Hare designed a larger one which was built between 1914 and 1915.The church is located in the Meadows area of Nottingham.The parish merged with that of St. John the Baptist's Church, Leenside, Nottingham when that church was demolished after damage during the Second World War.

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