Church of St Mary Magdalene, Sutton-in-Ashfield

53°07′31″N 01°16′12″W / 53.12528°N 1.27000°W / 53.12528; -1.27000

Church

Church of St Mary Magdalene, Sutton-in-Ashfield


Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Modern Anglo-Catholic
Website	http://www.stmarysutton.org.uk/
History
Dedication	St Mary Magdalene
Administration
Province	York
Diocese	Southwell and Nottingham
Archdeaconry	Newark
Deanery	Newstead
Parish	Sutton-in-Ashfield
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Rev Julie Cotterill
Curate(s)	Vacant
Minister(s)	Andrew Halfpenny
Laity
Organist(s)	John Bullock

The Church of St Mary Magdalene, Sutton-in-Ashfield is a parish church in the Church of England in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.

The church is Grade II* listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport^[1] as it is a particularly significant building of more than local interest.

History

The church is medieval but was rebuilt in 1854 and 1867.^[2] It contains a rare 12th century pillar piscina^[1] and the remains of the font top from the original Norman church.^[3]

By American searches, on 5 July 1607, Edward FitzRandolph was baptised at St. Mary's Church Sutton, marrying Elizabeth Blossom in Scituate, Massachusetts - they are Barack Obama's 10x great-grandparents.^[4]

Sources

^ ^a ^b Historic England. "CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE (1221773)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1979). Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England). Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin. p. 343. ISBN 978-0300096361.
^ Churches in the Ashfield Area. Ashfield District Council
^ "Rival English 'ancestral home' claims for Barack Obama". Daily Telegraph. 6 March 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2022.