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"St. Nicholas' Parish averages about 500 yards in length and 250 in breadth. It is bounded on the west by Brewhouse Yard, the castle wall, Standard Hill, the General infirmary and Park Row; and on the north by Chapel Bar, Angel Row and beastmarket Hill; whence its boundary, including the greater part of Friar Lane, passes in an irregular line behind the Friends' Meeting House and Independent Chapel, across Castle Gate to Greyfriargate, down which it passes to the Leen, which forms the southern limit of the parish. Its principal streets are Castle Gate, Houndsgate, Park Street, Rutland Street, St James' Street, Mount Street and Park Row. It has its parish church, several chapels and other public buildings, one of which is Bromley House.
St. Nicholas' Church is a neat, brick edifice ornamented with stone, and like St. Peter's, shaded by a number of trees. It occupies a pleasant situation on the south side of Castlegate, whence its large burial ground extends to Chesterfield Street and Rosemary Lane."
[WHITE's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]
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The Bromley House Library was established in 1816. In 1822 it moved to its present location on Angel Row. The library has no handicapped access.
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Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of St. Nicholas' churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2017.
- The parish was in the Castle sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District.
- In 1891 the parish was reassigned to the Nottingham South West sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year | Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1841 | H.O. 107 / 871 |
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2467 thru 2469 |
| 1871 | R.G. 10 / 3528 & 3529 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2683 & 2684 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas.
- There was an earlier church here, destroyed in the Parliamentary War. The new church was rebuilt in 1678 as a plain red brick building with stone facings.
- The church is located at #79 Maid Marian Way in Nottingham.
- The church was enlarged in 1756 and again in 1783.
- The church organ was added in 1874 and it was enlarged in 1910.
- The church seats 600.
- Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2017.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Castle sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District.
- In 1891 the parish was reassigned to the Nottingham South West sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District.
This parish lies just east of Nottingham Castle.
David LALLY has a photograph of The Ned Ludd pub. on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2017.
- We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
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There is a War Memorial Window inside St. Nicholas' Church. It was dedicated on 26 November 1920. The inscription reads:
"To the Glory of God this window was erected by John Francis TOWNEND Esquire as an act of Thanksgiving for the safe return of his two sons from the Great War 1914-1919. ‘The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad.’"
There is also a brass plaque on a wooden base.
The names on the War Memorial are:
- Percy Astill
- Percy George Atkinson
- Herbert Arthur Bird
- George Blakeman
- Joseph Bosworth
- Clarence William Brinkworth
- Albert Brown
- Arthur Burton
- John Ridsdale Burton
- Harry (Henry) Caldwell
- William Herbert Cocking
- Charles W. Colgrave
- Percy George Cook
- Joseph Cooper
- Thomas Cragg
- Joe Dakin
- Arthur Davis
- Albert Percy Diggle
- William Doncaster
- Harold Duffin
- John Finch
- Sampson Glossop
- William Goddard
- Thomas Goode
- Albert Knowles Greaves
- James Green
- Henry Hallam
- George Frederick William Hanson
- Joseph Harrison
- Harold Foster Hodgett
- Walter Hopewell
- Richard William Hurling
- Harry Hurst
- Charles William Jenkins
- Edward Johnson
- Edward Jones
- John Keetley
- Charles Kendall
- Albert Roland Kerridge
- William Alfred Kerridge
- William Henry King
- Ernest Victor Knowles
- Arthur Lee
- George Henry Leeson
- William Frederick Francis Long
- Harold Lowater
- George William Marriott
- George Marshall
- Frank Herbert Mayo
- Thomas Henry Mayo
- George Osborne
- Tom Osborne
- Arthur Parkin
- George Louis Pendleton
- Walter William Perry
- Frederick Porter
- George Porter
- Edward Randall
- Thomas Christopher Reesby
- Alfred Richards
- Stanley Richard Robinson
- Harry Samples
- Job Samples
- Norman Marrison Shardlow
- John Sharpe
- George Lawrence Enoch Lotinga Smith
- Arthur Hodson-Smith
- William Smithson
- Ernest Frederick Snow
- John Edwin Snow
- Alfred Spencer
- Harry Spooner
- Thomas Stephenson
- Alfred Leslie Stevens
- William Duncan Stevens
- John Thomas Stockton
- Jack Taylor
- William Henry Tollington
- John George Upton
- Cyril Varley
- Arthur Ernest Whetstone
- Percy Williams
- Alec George Wilson
- John Wilson
- Thomas Wilson
- Charles William Woods
- Bert Woodward
- Henry Wootton
- Arthur Worsdale
- Walter Wright
- Henry Wyer
Jane TAYLOR in Redcar contributes this clipping from the Derby Mercury of 9 December, 1802, MARRIED: "Yesterday, at St. Nichols's Church, Nottingham, by the Rev. Dr. WYLDE, Thomas SWINBURNE, Esq. banker, of this town, to Mrs Ward, relict of the late Archer WARD, Esq."
- This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county but did not became a modern Civil Parish until December, 1877.
- This place was incorporated as a part of Nottingham City in late 1897 when Nottingham received its charter as a city that same year as part of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
- You may contact the Nottingham City Council regarding political or civic matters, but they will NOT help you with family history searches. They are not funded for that.
- Bastardy Cases would be heard in the Nottinghamshire Petty Session Hearings.
- In 1723, St Nicholas' parish erected a workhouse on Gillyflower Hill.
- In 1813, The Gillyflower Hill workhouse was declared unfit for habitation and a large building at the bottom of Park Row was bought as a replacement. The old building was divided into tenements, known as Jessamine Cottages, and continued in use until 1945 when they were demolished.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Nottingham Poor Law Union.