Whatton
St John of Beverley

Features and Fittings

Chancel

Altar

Plain wooden table; late nineteenth/early twentieth century.

Riddel posts

Wooden posts with metal arms.

Detail of
l eft panel
Detail of
r ight panel

Reredos

Wooden triptych of painted panels with bias cross with Christ above centre panel. The left panel depicts St Paulinus and St John of Beverly inscribed with rubricated capitals:

Paulinus Ebor Archiepus S·Johes Beverlae Ebor Archiepus

The larger centre panel depicts a Nativity with the three kings bearing gifts and the shepherd visiting. The right hand panel depicts Ethelburga and Edwin inscribed with rubricated capitals:

Ethelburga North brie Reg Edwinus North brie Rex

Beneath the centre panel a small brass panel inscribed:

in Memorium Elizabeth Harriett Hall died 1885

Recently restored, it was given to the church in 1888.

Gradine

On the gradine below the reredos: six brass candlesticks with scalloped drip pans, central knots and wide spreading bases.

Bookstand

Pedestal type missal or bookstand in brass.

Communion rail

In three parts, with sloped capping on solid end-supports braced by decorated medial top rail and kneeling board set between oak blocks.

Credence

Nineteenth or twentieth century; wood.

Armchairs

Two armchairs. Nineteenth or twentieth century; possibly from former Holy Trinity Church Nottingham, with IHS carved into centre of backs.

Benches

Four open-backed benches with single top rails. Sloping desk tops supported on legs.

Choir stalls

Two rows either side of chancel with poppy heads. Date not certain but probably nineteenth century.

Reading desk

Nineteenth or early twentieth century wood with nineteenth century Elizabethan style chair.

Nave

Detail of the lectern

Lectern

Nineteenth century oak lectern. Desk supported on solid brackets, with eight sided stem with central knot. Cruciform base with knot to above. Two brass candleholders hinged with leaf and scalloped drip pans.

Pulpit

Five panels with double trefoil blind tracery with decorated cornice set on stone base; probably nineteenth or twentieth century.

Benches

Victorian wood with closed boarded backs, moulded top rail and chamfered bench-ends.

Font

Pedestal font with octagonal bowl with carved designs in front and side panels, back three plain. Octagonal stem with centre panel dated 1662. Set on a plain circular base with chamfered top edge.

Benefaction Boards

There are two of these on the south wall. One is a brass plate made by R E Swinfen of Middle Pavement, Nottingham inscribed:

Elizbeth Bower late of Redmile and formerly of Whatton Field by her will dated 27th Sept 1889 and proved by her executors Robert Watson late of Scarrington and now of West Bridgford and Henry Watson Talbot of Sutton cum Granby in the Leicester district Probate Registry on the 31st Oct 1892 gave to the Vicar and Churchwardens of Whatton in the Vale the sum of two hundred pounds to be invested in consols or other government securities and the income to be distributed yearly on St Thomas’ Day in money or moneys worth by the said vicar and churchwardens for the time being among necessitous widows and widowers and spinsters of good moral character and attendants of any place of public worship and who shall be resident in Whatton in the Vale aforesaid.

The second is a grey oblong slab engraved with white italic lettering which reads:

Memorandum ye John Wells of Aslocton out of
his Charitable Benevolence & good will to ye
poor did by his last Will and Testamnt May 9th 1710
give 5l to be put out to intrst the use half to ye poor of
Whatton & half to ye poor of Aslacton divided every Easter by ye minister and
Churchwardens then being &c.

North Aisle Chapel

Altar

Twentieth century, in the style of an Elizabethan drawleaf table with bulbous legs and moulded stretchers.

Communion rails

Twentieth century with classical design, sloped capping, solid end-supports braced by decorated medial top rail and kneeling board set between oak blocks.

Double Piscina

The double piscina belongs to the thirteenth or fourteenth century. At that time a second basin was added to the piscina for the cleansing of the priest’s hands. Later the custom was established of the priest consuming the elements remaining at the end of the mass, and the second basin was no longer needed.