Church of St. Mary and All Saints, Hawksworth
| Church of St Mary and All Saints, Hawksworth | |
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| Denomination | Church of England |
| Website | The Cranmer Group http://www.achurchnearyou.com/hawksworth/ |
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| Dedication | St Mary and All Saints |
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| Parish | Hawksworth |
| Diocese | Southwell and Nottingham |
| Province | York |
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| Vicar(s) | Rev. Bryony Wood |
Coordinates: 52°59′00″N 00°52′48″W / 52.98333°N 0.88000°W
The Church of St Mary and All Saints, Hawksworth is a parish church in the Church of England in Hawksworth, Nottinghamshire. It is Grade II* listed by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport as a particularly significant building of more than local interest.
The present church building dates back to the 12th century, most probably to about 1150, but there are documentary indications of an earlier, Saxon church dedicated, or dedicated also to St Edmund the Martyr. The church possesses a cross shaft with Danish Viking scroll and Christian cross ornamentation on two faces, which has been dated to the late 9th or early 10th century, but there are no surviving indications of Saxon work in the church fabric.
References to St Edmund recur in church documents up to the 16th century as the dedication of an adjunct to the main chancel. In 1676 it was recorded that 88 people in Hawksworth were receiving communion and there were six Dissenters.
The south wall of the tower bears the reset arch of a tympanum, carved with alternating rosettes and wheels in roundels, enclosing a row of zigzag carving. The centre shows a cross with splayed ends with a raised band just before the splay. At the top is an angel on the right and an Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) on the left, both set in roundels. The shaft of the cross shows two standing figures. Down the left hand side of the cross and below is a Latin inscription, which translates: "Walter and his spouse Cecelina had this church made in honour of our Lord and of Saint Mary the Virgin and all God's saints likewise." This tympanum was dated by Pevsner to the 12th century.
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