St Helen's Church, Selston

Coordinates: 53°04′30″N 01°19′02″W / 53.07500°N 1.31722°W / 53.07500; -1.31722

St. Helen's Church, Selston
Denomination Church of England
Churchmanship Broad Church
Website sthelenschurch.org/sthelen/index.htm
History
Dedication St. Helen
Administration
Parish Selston
Diocese Southwell and Nottingham
Province York
Clergy
Vicar(s) Revd Fiona Shouler

St. Helen's Church, Selston is a parish church in the Church of England in Selston, Nottinghamshire.

The church is Grade II* listed by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport[1] as it is a particularly significant building of more than local interest.

History

The church is medieval but was restored in 1899 and a north aisle added.[1][2]

In the churchyard there is a monolith 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.[3]

Parish structure

St. Helen's Church has a daughter church of St. Mary's Church, Westwood.

Organ

The church contains an organ by Henry Groves dating from 2010. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.[4]

Incumbents

Sources

  1. 1 2 Historic England. "CHURCH OF ST HELEN, CHURCH LANE (1275170)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  2. ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1979). Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England). Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin. p. 305. ISBN 978-0300096361.
  3. ↑ Churches in the Ashfield Area. Ashfield District Council
  4. ↑ "NPOR E01864". National Pipe Organ Register. British Institute of Organ Studies. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
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