Emmanuel Church, Nottingham

Emmanuel Church, Nottingham was a Church of England church in Nottingham on Woodborough Road between 1883 and 1972.^[1]

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^[2]
• 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