| 12th and 13th century. The church was restored in
the 17th and 18th centuries, when its interior was refurbished.
The west gallery has a
"modest" organ, and there is solid, traditional, Anglican furnishing. The pulpit is low,
for there were never side galleries, and the box-pews have
seating strips of red
baize.
The Molyneux pew in the south aisle is roofed, and has barley-sugar
columns; four red velvet cushions, emblazoned with a cross molin on a blue
shield, are provided for the noble family; a 1784 Prayer Book and an 1822 Bible
are covered in similar style. . . .
In the choir are miniature three-a-side
box-pews . . . there is a feeling of deep peace . . .
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"Teversal is a small village and parish, seated on a lofty eminence on
the western border of the county, and near the source of the River Meden,
four miles west by north of Mansfield. The parish, which has a number of
scattered dwellings, abounds in coal and lime, and contains 373
inhabitants, and 2,550 acres of land; bounded on the north and west by
Derbyshire, and including a small part (60a) of the park of Hardwick Hall,
in that county. The whole, except 40 acres of glebe, belongs to the Earl
of Carnarvon, who is also lord of the manor. The church, dedicated to St
Catherine, has a tower and five bells, and was enlarged in 1617 by J.
Molyneux Esq., who made a large vault under the south side, in which all
his family are now gathered. The heiress of the late Sir P. Molyneux
carried the estate into the present family. The rectory, valued in The
King's books at £9 19s 2d, now £510, is in the gift of the Earl of
Carnarvon, and incumbency of the Rev. John Charles Stapleton, for whom the
Rev. George Frederick Morgan officiates. Dunsell, one and a quarter miles
north; Fackley Lane, three quarters os a mile south west; Stanley, one
mile west; and Whiteborough, two miles south west are four hamlets in this
parish."
[White's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853]
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