Faiths, Beliefs and Religions
St. Katherine's, TeversalSt. Katherine's, Teversal
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The first
church in the village was Anglo-Saxon and made of wood. It was mentioned in the Doomsday Book.
St.Katherine was an Egyptian Princess who was martyred for her Christian beliefs aged just eighteen. The first attempt to execute her on a wheel failed when the wheel was split by a bolt of lightning; this is the origin of our 'Catherine Wheel' firework.
More information about St Catherine of Alexandria
There is a second
Egyptian connection, this being the church of the Carnarvon family, the Fifth Earl being the sponsor of the Egyptologist Howard
Carter. On November 26th 1922 at about 2pm, Carter became the first person to gaze into the burial chamber of Tutankhamun
in 3,300 years. Lord Carnarvon was one of the people just behind Carter.
A transcription of Howard Carter's diary of the excavation at the
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford (external web-site).
British Museum's Ancient Egyptian Website.
Lord Carnarvon died in Cairo on April 5th, some say the first of many involved with the excavation to be struck down with 'The Curse of the Pharoh'!
Teversal village, one of the most unspoiled and beautiful in Nottinghamshire, is remarkable in that the Feudal System still operated here until the death of the 'Tutankhamun' Earl in 1922.
The church
has box pews including a Squire's Pew. It also has a rare set of hatchments; these are panels bearing the coat of arms of
the deceased.
This church is a grade I listed building.
The manor of Teversal was held by the Molyneux and then the Carnarvon families. Members of the Molyneux family are buried in twelve lead-lined coffins in an underground crypt accessed by twelve under-pew steps.
The village of Teversal is a conservation area and is readily accessible from the Teversal Trails Visitors Centre.
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