St Wilfrid's Church, Scrooby is a

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parish church in the

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Scrooby Scrooby is a small village on the River Ryton in north Nottinghamshire, England, near Bawtry in South Yorkshire. At the time of the 2001 census it had a population of 329, in 2011 the count was 315 and by the 2021 census this had fallen furth ...

History

The church was built in the 15th century, and was restored by the Victorians in 1864 after many years of disrepair. The church is noted for its octagonal spire. Scrooby harboured a Separatist Puritan group, 1606–8, which fled to Holland in 1608 and then in 1620 sailed to America in the

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. William Brewster, one of the

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and a ruling elder, worshipped in Scrooby Church.

Present day

Today, St Wilfrid's is in the

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of Blyth and Scrooby with

Ranskill Ranskill is a village and civil parish in the Bassetlaw District, Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England, with its nearest town being Retford approximately south. The Ranskill parish according to the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 ce ...

. Services from a central

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tradition are still held at St Wilfrid. An hour-long prayer service takes place on the first Sunday of the month, and Sunday morning worship takes place on the first and third Sunday of the month. The church congregation consists mostly of village residents.

Organ

The church contains an organ dating from 1871 by Gray and Davison.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scrooby Church of England church buildings in Nottinghamshire Grade II listed churches in Nottinghamshire

St Wilfrid Wilfrid ( – 709 or 710) was an English bishop and saint. Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Francia, and at Rome; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and beca ...

History

Present day

Organ

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