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Coordinates: 52°56′45″N 01°04′12″W / 52.94583°N 1.07°W / 52.94583; -1.07

St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont
The churchyard
Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Broad Church
Website	myweb.tiscali.co.uk/allhallows
History
Dedication	St Edmund
Administration
Parish	Holme Pierrepont
Diocese	Southwell and Nottingham
Province	York
Clergy
Rector	Robert Breckles
Laity
Organist/Director of music	Ian Hepburn

St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont is a parish church in the Church of England in Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire.

The church is Grade I listed by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport as a building of outstanding architectural or historic interest.

History

The church has had a long association with Holme Pierrepont Hall.

The medieval church was largely re-built in 1666 by Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester. In 1878 Thomas Chambers Hine added the chancel.^[1]

It is now part of the combined parish of All Hallow's Church, Lady Bay.

Rectors

• Humphrey Perkins ca. 1718
• Samuel Berdmore 1719 - 1722 also Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham
•  ?
• Scrope Berdmore 1740 - 1770 also Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham
• Thomas Donnithorne ???? - 1814
• James Jarvis Cleaver 1814 - ????
• Rev. James Jarvis Peach ???? - 1864?
• Henry Seymour
• Egbert Hacking ca. 1908 - ???? also from 1913 Archdeacon of Newark
• Canon R. P. Tinsley 1959 - ????

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Monuments

Memorial to Henry Pierrepont (died 1615)

• Sir Henry Pierrepont, died 1499.
• Sir Henry Pierrepont, died 1615, father of Earl of Kingston upon Hull and Grace, Lady Manners^[2]
• Gertrude, wife of Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull who died in 1649.
• John Oldham (poet)
• Evelyn Pierrepont, Lord Pierrepont

Stained glass

The east window of 1913 is by James Powell and Sons.

Organ

The organ was built by Charles Lloyd (organ builder) and won a gold medal at the Birmingham Trades Exhibition in 1865.

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