St Mark's Church, Wootton

St. Mark's Church, Wootton
St. Mark's Church, Wootton
Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Broad Church
Website	www.woottonparish.co.uk/stmarks.php
History
Dedication	St. Mark
Administration
Parish	Wootton, Isle of Wight
Diocese	Portsmouth
Province	Canterbury
Clergy
Priest(s)	Revd Kath Abbott

Last updated February 23, 2019

Coordinates: 50°43′24″N01°14′19″W / 50.72333°N 1.23861°W / 50.72333; -1.23861

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The Church of England is the established church of England. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the most senior cleric, although the monarch is the supreme governor. The Church of England is also the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain by the third century, and to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury.

Wootton is a large village, civil parish and electoral ward with about 3,000 residents on the Isle of Wight, first recorded around the year 1086.

History

The church dates from 1909 and was designed by architect Percy Stone.^[1]

Percy Goddard Stonefsafriba was an English architect, author and archaeologist who worked extensively on the Isle of Wight, where he lived for most of his life. He designed and restored several churches on the island, designed war memorials and rebuilt Carisbrooke Castle. His "passion for archaeology" led him to excavate the ruins of Quarr Abbey, and as an author he wrote about the churches and antiquities of the Isle of Wight and contributed to the Victoria County History.

The Bishop of Southampton James Macarthur laid the foundation stone. The builders were Messrs Jenkins who also built Quarr Abbey. On 29 August 1909 the building was dedicated.

The Bishop of Southampton is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Winchester, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the city of Southampton in Hampshire. The See is vacant following Frost's installation at York Minster.

James Macarthur was a British Anglican Bishop in the late 19th and early 20th century.

The church was closed after damage during the Second World War. The building was disused until it was rededicated by John Henry Lawrence Phillips the Bishop of Portsmouth in 1970 at a time of rapid population growth in the parish.

The Bishop of Portsmouth is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Portsmouth in the Province of Canterbury.

Parish Status

It is in the same parish as St. Edmund's Church, Wootton.

Organ

A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.

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References

↑ The Buildings of England, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Nikolaus Pevsner

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[1] The Buildings of England, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Nikolaus Pevsner