St Mary’s is an active Anglican church in the Wollaton suburb of Nottingham. It is in the Archdeanery of Nottingham, the Deanery of Nottingham South, the Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham, and the BeneficeOriginally used in feudal societies to describe a grant of land as a reward for services rendered. In modern usage it refers to a collection of parishes working together under a single incumbent. of Wollaton Park.^[1]

Designed by the architect Thomas Cecil Howitt, construction of the church began in 1937, and was completed in 1939. It was endowed by Colonel W. G. Player, to whom there is a bronze memorial plaque in the interior.^[2]

St Mary’s was designated a Grade II listed buildingStructure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection. in 1995.^[2]

Architecture

Exterior

The church is built in buff brick with moulded brick dressings, and has a tile roof with coped gables and crosses. It has a plinth, a string course, a sill band and a corbelStructural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent load. table. The plan consists of a single unit with seven bays, west porches and east vestriesRoom in Christian churches for the storage of liturgical vestments, sacred vessels and parish records.. There is a sundial over the west door.^[2]

Interior

The barrel-vaulted wooden roof is supported on corbels, and the interior is illuminated by the original wrought-iron pendant lamps. There is a panelled wooden reredosLarge ornamented wall, screen, or other structure placed behind the altar in a Christian church., and stained glass windows on each side of the nave, with organ pipes flanking the west window.^[2]

The organ was built by J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd in 1938. The instrument has a detached console at the west end of the church.^[3]