Rempstone Church once stood 1/2 mile to the NW of the present village with the name of St Peter's in the Rushes. (1)
C18 church built using stone from the ruinous St Peter's Church - location continued in use as a graveyard. A low, indistinct, grass-grown mound with a max height of 0.4m marks the site, part encircled by a boundary bank of similar max height. (2)
The earliest reference to St Peter's Church, Rempstone occurs in 1231. (3)
Excavation by amateur group 1962 revealed foundations (walls c 5ft thick, of sandstone and rubble). Finds of glass and tile fragments. (4)
See M61 for C18 church.

Data Held (Document). SNT2647.

Corr, (4), Parish file

Data Held: Ground Photograph (Ground photograph). SNT2646.

1 colour slide, RO Wood, 1979, SMR

Data Held: Ground Photograph (Ground photograph). SNT2646.

4 colour print, 02894/10-12,12A 1987, SMR

<1> Beresford M, 1954, The Lost Villages of England, p 378 (Published document). SNT475.

<2> Harper FR, 1961, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT747.

<3> Godfrey JT, 1887, Churches of Nottinghamshire - Hundred of Rushcliffe, pp 221 - 231 (Published document). SNT715.

<4> Williams BCJ, 1987, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT1427.

<5> Loughborough Echo, 13/07/1962, Loughborough Echo (Published document). SNT230.

<6> Thoroton Society, 1978, TTS, p 11 (Published document). SNT391.