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Holy Rood Church (other)
Holy Rood Church may refer to: United Kingdom * Holy Rood Church, Barnsley, South Yorkshire * Holy Rood Church, Coombe Keynes, Dorset * Holy Rood Church, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire * Holy Rood Church, Ossington, Nottinghamshire * Holy Rood Church, Swindon, Wiltshire * Holy Rood Church, Watford, Hertfordshire * Church of the Holy Rood, Ampney Crucis, Gloucestershire * Church of the Holy Rood, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire * Church of the Holy Rood, Edwalton, Nottinghamshire * Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling * Holyrood Church, Southampton, Hampshire * Holyrood Abbey Church, Edinburgh * Holyrood Abbey Holyrood Abbey is a ruined abbey of the Canons Regular in Edinburgh, Scotland. The abbey was founded in 1128 by David I of Scotland. During the 15th century, the abbey guesthouse was developed into a List of British royal residences, royal r ..., Edinburgh United States * Holyrood Episcopal Church, New York City See also * Holyrood (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Rood Church, Barnsley
Holy Rood Church is a Roman Catholic Parish Church in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. It was opened in 1905. It is situated on the corner of Castlereagh Street and George Street, next to A628 road, West Way in the town centre. It was designed by Edward Simpson and is a Grade II listed building. History Foundation In 1800, forty Catholics led by William Rigby met Fr Vincent Louis Dennis, a French priest who was in the area to tutor to the children of John Payne, the owner of Newhill Hall in Wath-upon-Dearne, who agreed to serve the local Catholic community. Fr Dennis died in 1819, but in 1822, the local congregation laid the foundations for a church which was completed in 1824. It was "a barn-like structure, utilitarian rather than beautiful" and was very soon outgrown by the increasing congregation. By the 1831 register, there had been 378 baptisms from the time Fr Dennis began his ministry, the first entry being in 1804. Through the efforts of the then Parish Priest, a second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Rood Church, Coombe Keynes
Holy Rood Church is a former Church of England church in Coombe Keynes, Dorset, England. Most of the church dates to a rebuild of 1860–61, but the tower and chancel arch is 13th-century. It was declared redundant in 1974 and is now under the care of a charitable trust. The former church is a Grade II listed building. History The original Holy Rood Church was of Early English style and made up of a nave, chancel, south aisle, north porch and west tower. By the mid 19th-century, the church had fallen into a dilapidated state, including suffering from damp and the encroachment of ivy. The three bells from the tower had also been placed in the unused south aisle, along with the remains of the broken stocks and wheels which had been used to hang them. The south aisle itself no longer had any flooring or seating. The church's poor condition had long been a concern to the clergy and a committee was formed around 1858 by the Rural dean, Rev. Prebendary Bond, to determine a solution. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Rood Church, Market Rasen
Holy Rood Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic parish church located on King Street in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, England. The church dates from the 19th century. History In 1824, a chapel in the Classical Nonconformist style popular for Catholic chapels of the time, was built by Edward James Willson and was designed to seat 200 people. In 1867, Father Algernon Moore, a convert from Anglicanism, commissioned side aisles and a tower to be built in red brick, which was designed by Hadfield and Son, who were based in Sheffield. In the 1980s, roof decay led to a single span roof replacing the nave and aisle roofs. Notable people Elton John's lyric writing partner and longtime friend Bernie Taupin was an altar boy and eventually married his first wife Maxine Feibelman there in 1971. John was the best man at the wedding. The Sixhills vestments The church contains three medieval vestments. They are composed of medieval orphreys, mounted on a modern cope and two chasubles which c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Rood Church, Ossington
Holy Rood Church, Ossington is a parish church in the Church of England in Ossington, Nottinghamshire. The church is Grade I listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as a building of outstanding architectural or historic interest. History The church was built from 1782 to 1783 by John Carr of York.Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1979. ''The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire''. page 284. Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin. It is thought to stand on, or very near to, the original site of Ossington Preceptory: a monastery of the Knights Hospitallers which was dissolved in 1534 as part of King Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries. Pipe organ The church has a barrel organ A barrel organ (also called roller organ or crank organ) is a France, French mechanical musical instrument consisting of bellows and one or more ranks of organ pipe, pipes housed in a case, usually of wood, and often highly decorated. The basic ... by Robson dating from around 1830. It h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Rood Church, Swindon
Holy Rood Church is a Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ... parish church in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. It was founded in 1851 as a chapel and was rebuilt as a church in 1905. It is situated on the corner of Groundwell Road and Lincoln Street in the centre of the town. It was designed by Edward Doran Webb as a Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival church and was the first Roman Catholic church built in and around the town since the Reformation.Swindon: Churches in ''A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 9,'' from ''British History Online'' (London: Victoria County History, 1970), 144-159. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Rood Church, Watford
Holy Rood Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Watford, Hertfordshire. It was built from 1889 to 1890. It is situated on the western corner of Market Street and Exchange Road. It was designed by John Francis Bentley, who also designed Westminster Cathedral. It is a Grade I listed building.Holy Rood Church Hertfordshire from British listed buildings, retrieved 23 December 2015 The church features in ''England's Thousand Best Churches'' by who described it as "a true town church"., ''England's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of The Holy Rood, Ampney Crucis
The Anglican Church of the Holy Rood at Ampney Crucis in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, has Anglo-Saxon architecture, Saxon foundations with some of the stonework being Norman architecture, Norman. It is a grade I listed building. The listing summary describes it as an "Anglican parish church. Saxon foundation, with some Norman work and elements from all periods including C15 tower and re-roofing of nave, up to restoration of 1870". History In the Domesday Book (1086) the building is called the Church of Omenie Holy Rood since the name of the village at that time was Omenie, located in the Garsdon Hundred. The term "rood" is translated into English as "cross". Documents from 1287 refer to the church by its Latin name, ''Ameneye Sancte Crucis''. The foundations of the building date from the Anglo-Saxon architecture, Saxon period and some aspects parts of the fabric of the building are Norman architecture, Norman. Parts are more recent including the tower and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of The Holy Rood, Daglingworth
The Anglican Church of the Holy Rood at Daglingworth in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England was built in the 11th century. It is a Grade I listed building. History The church was built in the 11th century and extended, including the tower, in the 15th. A Victorian restoration, between 1845 and 1850, included the addition of the north aisle and rebuilding the chancel. Architecture The limestone building had stone slate roofs. It consists of a nave with south porch, chancel, north aisle and west tower. The tower contains four bells, the oldest of which date from 1720. The nave was divided by a cross wall, with a loft for the priest above, but this was removed in the 19th century. There is an organ above the chancel arch. A series of Saxon carvings, including one of the crucifixion, were rediscovered during rebuilding work in 1850. They predate the Norman Conquest and follow the Syrian tradition. They are dated to around 1050. The carvings were originally built int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of The Holy Rood, Edwalton
The Church of the Holy Rood, Edwalton is a Church of England church in Edwalton, Nottinghamshire. History The church dates from the 12th century. The chancel was rebuilt by Arthur Brewill and Basil Baily in 1894. A vestry was added by L. W. Nunn in the mid 20th century. Stained glass On the north side are stained glass window to Thurman family, 1906, and others of 1910 and 1913 by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. The east window has stained glass to the Turner family dating from 1918 and 1924, by Morris & Co. South side has a stained glass window to the Halford family, c.1923. The church also contains a stained glass window to Arthur Brewill FRIBA dating from 1923, the architect of the chancel. Organ The church contained a small 2 manual pipe organ with 12 speaking stops dating from 1881. A specification of the organ can be found on thNational Pipe Organ Register This was replaced with a digital organ in 1988. See also * Grade II* listed buildings in Nottinghamshire *Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of The Holy Rude
The Church of the Holy Rude (Scottish Gaelic: ''Eaglais na Crois Naoimh'') is the medieval parish church of Stirling, Scotland. It is named after the Holyrood (cross), Holy Rood, a relic of the True Cross on which Jesus was crucified. The church was founded in 1129 during the reign of David I of Scotland, David I, but the earliest part of the present church dates from the 15th century. As such it is the second oldest building in Stirling after Stirling Castle, parts of which date from the later 14th century. The chancel and tower were added in the 16th century. Stirling Castle has long been a favoured residence of the Scottish monarchs, and was developed as a Renaissance palace during the reigns of the later Stewart kings. The Church of the Holy Rude, adjacent to the castle, became similarly associated with the Scottish monarchy, hosting royal baptisms and coronations. It is one of three churches still in use in Britain that have been the sites of coronations. History The chu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holyrood Church
Holyrood Church (or Holy Rood Church) was one of the original five churches serving the old walled town of Southampton, England. Built in 1320, the church was destroyed by enemy bombing during the blitz in November 1940. In 1957 the shell of the church was dedicated as a memorial to the sailors of the Merchant Navy. It is a Grade II* listed building. __TOC__ History The first documentary evidence of the existence of Holyrood was in 1160 when Henry II granted the Chapels of St. Michael, Holyrood, St. Lawrence and All Saints' to the monks of St. Denys. The name of the church, " Holy Rood", indicates its Saxon origins; if the church had been founded after the Norman Conquest, it would have been named " St. Cross". The original church was situated in the centre of the High Street, then known as "English Street", but in 1320, the church was pulled down and rebuilt on its present site on the eastern side of the road. During the Middle Ages, the church was situated at the centre o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holyrood Abbey Church
Meadowbank and Willowbrae Church (known until 2017 as Holyrood Abbey Church, and then until 2025 as Meadowbank Church) is a congregation of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is based in a late-Victorian church building on London Road, Abbeyhill, around north of Holyrood Abbey. The church building was opened in December 1900 as Abbeyhill United Free Church. The 12th-century Holyrood Abbey served as the parish church of the Canongate until the construction of the Kirk of the Canongate in 1688. Following the Disruption of 1843 in the Church of Scotland, part of the congregation of the Kirk of the Canongate left to form Holyrood Free Church. A new building was constructed by them on Abbey Strand, in front of the Palace of Holyroodhouse. In 1915 this congregation united with Abbeyhill United Free Church, henceforth using the church buildings at 83 London Road. When the United Free Church of Scotland united with the Church of Scotland in 1929, the congregation became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
