Church of St. John the Evangelist, Hucknall

The church was built between 1876 and 1877 on an acre of land at Butler's Hill given by the fifth Duke of Portland. It was designed by the architects Frederick Bakewell and Albert Nelson Bromley using Linby stone with Bath stone facings and brick buttresses. The foundation stone was laid in 1876 and was built at a cost £1,300. It was dedicated on 6 March 1877 by Bishop Tozer, an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Lincoln. It was built to provide for the spiritual needs of the growing number of miners and their families in the Butler's Hill area of Hucknall. The chancel was added in 1895 to designs by the architect Robert Charles Clarke. The sanctuary was completely refurnished in 1925 when…