Emmanuel Church, Nottingham

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Country United Kingdom Churchmanship Broad Church Completed 1885 Opened 1885 Demolished 1972 Construction cost 4,045 GBP		Denomination Church of England Groundbreaking 1883 Parish Nottingham Province Province of York Dedication Immanuel Architect Watson Fothergill
Diocese Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham

Emmanuel Church, Nottingham was a Church of England church in Nottingham on Woodborough Road between 1883 and 1972.

History

It was built to designs by the local architect Watson Fothergill and consecrated on 27 January 1885. There were 600 free seats, and a parish of 6,000. It was situated on Woodborough Road.

The patrons of the church were an Evangelical charity known as Hyndman's Trustees, who gave £2,000 to the building fund.

In the early 1970s it merged with St. Ann's Church, Nottingham and a new parish of St. Ann with Emmanuel, Nottingham was formed.

Incumbents

Frederick William Paul 1886 - 1892

Llewellyn Henry Gwynne 1892 - 1899

William Ernest Ives 1899 - 1904

Frederick William Paul 1904 - 1917

Richard Eardley Thomas Bell 1917 - 1918

Francis Josiah Pratt 1918 - 1927

Howard Henry Taylor 1927 - 1932

Patrick Kevin Horan 1932 - 1946

Francis Henry Outram 1946 - 1950

Arthur Henry Brown 1950 - ????

Organ

The church had a 3 manual organ by Compton and Musson dating from 1903. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.

List of organists

Walter Henry Moore 1887 - 1894

E.U. Ireland ca. 1903

James Harold Alton (later organist of St. John the Baptist Church, Beeston)

Robert John Taylor 1969 - 1972 (later organist and choirmaster Church of St. Mary the Virgin and All Souls, Bulwell)

Closure

The church was demolished in 1972.

References

Emmanuel Church, Nottingham Wikipedia

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