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Church History information for Egmanton and places above it in the hierarchy

Egmanton

  • The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary (as"Our Lady").
     
  • There is no mention of a church or priest in the 1086 Domesday Book.
     
  • The church was originally built in Norman times (12th Century).
     
  • In a writ of 1342, the church of Egmanton was still being referred to as a ‘chapel’.
     
  • The church tower was a 15th Century addition.
     
  • The Reformation of 1539 resulted in the closure and destruction of the Marian ("Our Lady" = Saint Mary) shrine at Egmanton in 1547. For the next four hundred years there were no pilgrims travelling to visit the church, which now became just an ordinary parish church.
     
  • In 1589 the churchwardens presented that the church walls were in decay.
     
  • In 1881 the church was in a very dilapidated state.
     
  • In 1893 the church, particularly the tower, was restored.
     
  • In 1897 John Ninian COMPER, a Scottish architect, added a new organ above the south entrance, its casing modelled on that at Freiburg Cathedral, a pulpit based on the medieval one at Ghent, and a very colourful, new rood screen. He also built a new shrine to St Mary, finally replacing the one destroyed in the Reformation. In the wake of Comper’s work, the Duke spent over £2,000 more rebuilding and reroofing the chancel and in decorative work inside the church.
  • The church seats 100.
     
  • In the churchyard stands a very ancient sundial.
     
  • John SALMON has a photograph of St Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2003.
     
  • And Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Church tower on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2006.
     

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