Nottingham St Mary

John SUTTON has a photograph of the Bromley House Library on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2017.

The Nottingham Central Library is on Angel Row. It is open Mondays thru Saturday. Check the website for times/dates. There is a Local Studies Library on the first floor with a Family History section.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Bellar Gate rest garden on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2019. This "rest area" was a burial ground for St Mary's Church, granted to the parish in 1742. In the 1830s it was used for the burial of cholera victims, and was finally closed in 1887.

• The parish was in the St. Mary sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• There was a Christian church here listed in the 1086 Domesday Book. A Norman church was built circa 1130 to replace that. The existing building is the third structure to stand on this spot.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin.
   
• The church was built on what is known as the "High Pavement".
   
• The church is also known as "St. Mary in the Lace Market".
   
• The ecclesiastical parish wasn't established until 1771.
   
• In 1843 the tower was saved from collapse.
   
• The 1843 tower repairs uncovered numerous burials within the church boundaries and these graves were causing the collapse of the tower. The graves were moved and the tower footings re-secured.
   
• One of the graves identified above was for Richard SAMON, mayor, dated 1427.
   
• The church was restored in 1867.
   
• The Bishop & Starr organ was installed in 1871.
   
• The church was restored again during 1873-1891.
   
• The church seats 1,300.
   
• The church is the largest medieval building in Nottingham.
   
• The church is Grade I listed with British Heritage.
   
• David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2011.
   
• John SUTTON also has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2017.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1567 and is in good condition.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Mansfield.
   
• Mick GARRATT has a photograph of the Unitarian Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2006. Alas, the Unitarians have left the building and it now functions as a Pub!
   
• A Congregational chapel was built in Castle Gate in 1863, replacing an older structure. The Congregationalists had nine places of worship in Nottingham city around 1900.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the St. Mary sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District.
   

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Shire Hall and County Gaol on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2019.

This parish comprises the southern side of Nottingham city.

Ray HUGHES has a photograph of the Nottingham Station Platforms on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2017.

John SUTTON has a photograph of the Old Market Square transformed into a beach with sand, stalls, rides and illumination on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2017.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Nottingham St Mary to another place.

Herbert KILPIN was an English football player and manager, best known as the main founding father of AC Milan. KILPIN was born in this parish on 24 January 1870, the son of a local butcher. In 1891, Kilpin moved to Turin, in Italy. By 1898, KILPIN had already left Turin and settled in Milan with fellow Englishman Samuel Richard DAVIES. The following year, the duo were among the charter members of AC Milan. He died on 22 October 1916, aged 46 and is buried in Milan's Municipal Cemetery.

• David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of the Low Pavement area on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2017.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the old Lace Market area on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2007.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK577397 (Lat/Lon: 52.951586, -1.142646), Nottingham St Mary which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Nottingham General Hospital Dispensary on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2019. Generally there are no patient records archived from these facilities.

• The War Memorial at the southwest entrance to the churchyard was dedicated in 1922 to the men who lost their lives in the Great War.
   
• David LALLY has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2010.
   
• John SUTTON has a photograph of the 'Heroes with grimy faces' Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2017. This memorial honours those men and women of the fire and rescue services and the civil defense service who lost their lives in the Second World War.
   

You may want to read the James Still inscription reported by Rob LOASBY.

The Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project includes transcriptions from the plaques on the war memorial, but not the names of individuals. The photos of name lists will require magnification to read the names.

The names on the Roll of Honour plaque in the church nave are:

1. Charles William Bakewell
2. Spencer Baldry
3. Horace Ball
4. Catherine Ball, VAD nurse
5. Ernest Barby
6. Arthur William Barton
7. Albert Owen Benson
8. Lt. Thomas Richard Chetwynd Birkin
9. Arthur Brady
10. Charles Brett
11. George Thomas Brockley
12. Albert Ernest Brockwell
13. Ernest William Brotherhood
14. Charles Bryan
15. Albert Buck
16. Charles Frederick Carr
17. George William Chamberlain, HMS Nomad
18. Samuel Edward Clark
19. Edward Clarke
20. Edward Clarke
21. Joseph Clements
22. Ernest Cooper
23. Frederick George Cooper
24. Alexander William Daniel
25. William Henry Drewry
26. Henry Durose
27. Ernest Dykes
28. John Thomas Ellis
29. Thomas French
30. T. Gibson
31. Srgt. Reginald Horace Grundy
32. George Robinson Gunn
33. Cornelius Hallam
34. James Arthur Hallam
35. John William Hart
36. William Hazard
37. Fred H. Higgs
38. Cyril Hodgkinson
39. Arthur William Holland
40. Henry Cecil Holmes
41. Harry Ronald Hubble
42. Cprl. Charles Edward Huddleston
43. Bernard Johnson
44. Ernest D. Jones
45. Leonard Jones
46. George Judd Johnson
47. Wallace Staines Judge
48. Thomas Keeton
49. William Kirk
50. William John Lang
51. John Thomas Law
52. Philip Umfreville Laws
53. George Frederick Leverton
54. William Lewis
55. Srgt. Stephen Ewart Foster Locker, RFA
56. Frederick Masham
57. John Edward Meadows
58. Joshua Meadows
59. William Morledge
60. William Murden
61. William Henry Newman
62. Samuel Newton
63. John Parr
64. Arthur Pearce
65. William Perth
66. George Raymond Pinder
67. Thomas Albert Pinder
68. Frederick Thomas Potts
69. Frederick W. Roberts
70. George Roberts
71. John William Roberts
72. James William Sampson
73. Thomas Henry Sanderson
74. Henry Savage
75. Herbert Savage
76. Joseph Scragg
77. Harold William Searson
78. Alfred Shepherd
79. Charles Matthew Shepherd
80. Frederick Lawrence Simpson
81. Owen Smith
82. Thomas E. Smith
83. Jesse Watts Spinks
84. Lewis Stephen
85. Robert Stewart
86. Arthur William Swain
87. Samuel Taylor
88. Harry Thompson
89. Samuel Thompson
90. Reginald Stanley Turner
91. George Tutin
92. William Walker
93. William Wealthall
94. Frederick Wheelhouse
95. Ewart Herbert Widdowson
96. John Richard Wilmot
97. Edward Wilson
98. Frank Wilson
99. John Henry Wing
100. George Edward Wright
101. Alfred Yeomans
102. Rowland Young

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• All of the ecclesiastical and ancient parishes of Nottingham city became a single modern Civil Parish in 1897.
   
• St. Mary's ecclesiastical and civil parish was often the "parent" parish for new parishes spun off from it.
   
• You may contact the Nottingham City Council regarding political or civic matters, but they will NOT help you with family history searches. They are not funded for that.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
   
• St Mary's parish set up workhouse in 1723 on land between York Street and Mansfield Road.
   
• By 1808, the building had deteriorated and the parish began to plan for a new workhouse. Initially, a larger site on Dog Kennel Hill was considered, but eventually the replacement was built on the old site at a cost of more than £5,000.
   
• In 1819, in the midst of a depression and high unemployment in Nottingham, the parish appointed Absalom BARNETT as its full-time Overseer. Barnett introduced a variety of new measures in the parish's treatment of the poor. He ended all wage supplements, allowances for large families, or the payment of rents. Able-bodied unemployed were offered relief through entry into the workhouse.
   
• Under Barnett's plan, the workhouse capacity of 400 was quickly exceeded and the able-bodied soon were offered employment outside the workhouse. The work was low-paid.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Nottingham Poor Law Union.
   
• The York Street workhouse was demolished in 1896 to make way for the Victoria Station.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	22,654
1841	41,135
1851	45,729
1871	76,130
1881	101,906
1891	99,897