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St Saviour’s Church, Retford
53°19′38.82″N 0°56′2.16″W / 53.3274500°N 0.9339333°W / 53.3274500; -0.9339333
Location	Retford
Country	England
Denomination	Church of England
Website	https://www.stsavioursretford.org.uk/
History
Dedication	St Saviour
Consecrated	27 September 1829
Architecture
Heritage designation	Grade II* listed
Architect(s)	E. J. Willson
Groundbreaking	2 June 1828
Completed	1829
Construction cost	£4,000
Administration
Parish	Retford
Deanery	Bassetlaw and Bawtry
Archdeaconry	Newark
Diocese	Southwell and Nottingham

St Saviour’s Church, Retford is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Retford.

History

The church dates from 1829. It was consecrated on 27 September 1829 by the Rt. Revd. Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt Archbishop of York as a daughter church of St John the Baptist Church, Clarborough, the church became a parish in its own right in 1871. It was restored in 1878. In 2002 it was united with St Swithun’s and St Michael’s in Retford to become a joint parish. Following further re-organisation, St. Saviour's became a single parish again in 2019 covering much of the east side of Retford.

Two stained glass memorial windows are by Charles Eamer Kempe

Clergy

The Crucifixion; one of the windows with stained glas by C. E. Kempe, 1920

• Joshua William Brooks 1827 - 1843
• Charles Hodge 1844 - 1858
• James Disney 1860 - 1876
• Lawrence Roworth 1877 - 1913
• Edwin Paxton 1914 - 1927
• Frederic Eddy 1927 - 1930
• Edward Hester 1931 - 1933
• Lawrence Ashcroft 1934 - 1943
• James Godsmark 1943 - 1955
• Thomas Womack 1956 - 1967
• John Moore 1967 - 1973
• John Tompkins 1973 - 1987
• Tony Walker 1988 - 2017
• Ben Clayton 2018 - Present