Holy Rood Church, Market Rasen
Church in England
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Holy Rood Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic parish church located on King Street in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, England. The church dates from the 19th century.
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| Holy Rood, Market Rasen | |
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Tower of Holy Rood viewed from the south | |
 Holy Rood, Market Rasen | |
| Address | King Street, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, LN8 3BB |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Website | https://holyroodcatholicchurch.org.uk |
| History | |
| Status | Active |
| Dedication | Holy Rood |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | Parish Church |
| Architect(s) | Edward James Willson Hadfield and Son |
| Years built | 1824 |
| Administration | |
| Province | Westminster |
| Diocese | Nottingham |
| Deanery | Northern Lincolnshire[1] |
| Parish | Market Rasen |
| Clergy | |
| Bishop | Right Revd. Patrick McKinney |
| Priest | Fr. David Palmer |
History
In 1824, a chapel in the Classical Nonconformist style popular for Catholic chapels of the time, was built by Edward James Willson and was designed to seat 200 people. In 1867, Father Algernon Moore, a convert from Anglicanism, commissioned side aisles and a tower to be built in red brick, which was designed by Hadfield and Son, who were based in Sheffield. In the 1980s, roof decay led to a single span roof replacing the nave and aisle roofs. [2]
Notable people
Elton John's lyric writing partner and longtime friend Bernie Taupin was an altar boy and eventually married his first wife Maxine Feibelman there in 1971. John was the best man at the wedding.[3]
The Sixhills vestments
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The church contains three medieval vestments. They are composed of medieval orphreys, mounted on a modern cope and two chasubles which came from the medieval Gilbertine priory at Sixhills. The chasubles date from 1490-1520 and the cope orphreys date from 1390-1420.[4]