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Babworth

Nottinghamshire

C15, C16, partially restored c.1860, restored 1878.

Architectural Features

On the north and south sides are two gargoyles with single crocketed pinnacles at the angles of the parapet.

Under the second window in from the east is a narrow C16 arched priest's doorway with wooden door.

Under the window second from the east is a narrow C16 arched priest's doorway with wooden door.

Single carved grotesque heads replace responds.

The font, pulpit and lectern are Cl9.

William Simpson and his wife Frances, 1768, this has a sarcophagus with decorative scrolls over, supporting an obelisk bearing the inscription and a carved, coloured and decorated shield.

There is a sarcophagus set on to the ground of the monument to Arthur Bridgeman Simpson, 1827.

The congregation became Separatist on July 11 1586 when Rev Richard Clyfton became Minister, he was deprived of his living in 1604.

William Brewster and William Bradford worshipped here until the Separatist Church was formed at Scrooby in 1606 when they and Clyfton moved there.

Clyfton escaped to Amsterdam in 1608 and died there 20th May 1616.