1863 - St Saviour's - Nottingham, Nottinghamshire - Dated Buildings and Cornerstones on Waymarking.com

Foundation stone at St Saviour's church, Nottingham, laid in 1863.

"Parish church. 1863-64. By RC Sutton of Nottingham. Spire rebuilt, 1955. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Gothic Revival Style.

PLAN: chancel, vestry, nave with aisles, south-west tower and spire.

EXTERIOR: plinth, string course, buttresses, coped gables. Pointed arched windows, mainly 2-lights, with geometrical tracery. Chancel, single bay, has a 5-light east window, and a single window each side. Vestry, to north-east, has a single window. Nave clerestory has on each side 10 round windows in spherical triangles. West end has 2 windows, with a central round window above. Aisles have 4 windows and single windows in west ends. North aisle has to west a pointed arched doorway under a coped gable. South-west tower, 3 stages, has a slated broach spire with a tier of lucarnes. To west, a pointed arched recess under a gable, containing a pair of doors with a central shaft, and above them, a traceried round window. Bell stage has quoins. On each side, 2 segment-arched recesses with single pointed arched bell openings.

INTERIOR: chancel has moulded arch with blue brick band and hood mould, and responds. Arch braced roof on corbels. East end has traceried panelling and reredos, 1913, and stained glass window, 1904. North side has arch with organ case, south side has doorway. Nave has 5 bay arcades with round piers and chamfered arches with polychrome brick bands and hood moulds. Hammer beam roof with shaft corbels. Blind arcade at west end, with commandment boards. Aisles have lean-to roofs, pointed arches at east end, doors to west, and patterned stained glass windows, 1896. South-east window c1864. Fittings include original stalls, desks, benches, communion rail, round ashlar pulpit and octagonal font with spire cover. Brass eagle lectern, 1880. Memorials include 3-panel alabaster war memorial, 1921."

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The stone is inscribed:
THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THIS CHURCH WAS LAID
SEP 23 1863
BY JOHN LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN
LAUS DEO

Year of construction: 1863 Full inscription: THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THIS CHURCH WAS LAID SEP 23 1863 BY JOHN LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN LAUS DEO Cross-listed waymark: Not listed

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