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)

All Saints Church, Rempstone, was built in 1771 using stone from the ruinous St. Peter's Church. The location of the latter continued in use as a graveyard. A low, indistinct, grass-grown mound with a maximum height of 0.4m marks the site, part encircled by a boundary bank of a similar maximum height. 25" Survey completed 31.1.61 (2)

The earliest reference to St Peter's Church, Rempstone occurs in 1231. (3) (6)

Excavation by amateur group 1962 revealed foundations (walls c 5ft thick, of sandstone and rubble). Finds of glass and tile fragments. (4)

Demolished in 1771 and a new church built in the village. It was on the south bank of the Sheepwash Brook, Approx. 1 KM NW of the present village of Rempstone. (5)

Surrounded by freshly planted crop. (7)

Oral comments made by Mr. Seymour Wright, Rempstone. (8)

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

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

OS, 1955, 6in 1955 (Map). SNT1069.

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

<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> Denny Plowman, 1978, The Ruined and Redundant Churches of Nottinghamshire - A Survey (Unpublished document). SNT5716.

<6> Colquhoun FD, 1961, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT576.

<7> Colquhoun FD, 1975, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT583.

<8> Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.