St Mary's Church

The inscription above the entrance describes the chapel as being "rebuilt" in that year by T. D. Hall. This is confirmed by Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire, 1904: "The chapel of ease is a small building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel and nave, with a turret containing 2 bells; it was rebuilt by the late Thomas Dickinson Hall Esq. of Whatton Manor, in 1855, and has 100 sittings." (The year 1855 was probably the year construction started and 1857 the date of completion. Hall had been High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1843.) The cost of construction was £1,200. The church indeed consists of a nave and a chancel. The turret at the east end contains two bells. There…