Moorhouse Chantry Chapel | |
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53°11′34″N0°52′28″W / 53.19278°N 0.87444°W | |
Location | Moorhouse, Nottinghamshire |
Country | England |
Denomination | Church of England |
History | |
Dedication | St Nicholas |
Architecture | |
Heritage designation | Grade II* listed |
Architect(s) | Henry Clutton |
Completed | 1860 |
Administration | |
Diocese | Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham |
Archdeaconry | Newark |
Deanery | Newark and Southwell |
Parish | Laxton |
Moorhouse Chantry Chapel is a Grade II* listed Church of England chapel in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham [1] at Moorhouse, within the Laxton and Moorhouse civil parish, Nottinghamshire.
The church dates 1860, built by Henry Clutton for Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington in the 12th century French Gothic Revival style.
It is in a group of parishes comprising:
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