St Nicholas Chapel

Moorhouse, Nottinghamshire England UK

Church of England (Anglican)

This St Nicholas Chapel was built in 1861 as a Chantry Chapel by Speaker of the House Dennison of Ossington who was a large land owner in the area. In medieval England such chapels were built to ensure perpetual prayers for a person's soul after death. Though chanceries were suppressed in the 1500s, St Nicholas Chapel is still known as Chantry Chapel and is now attached to Laxton Parish. The bell, cast around 1150, may be the oldest in the Southwell Diocese.