title: St Saviour's Church, Retford
text: # St Saviour's Church, Retford
  
  St Saviour's Church, Retford is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Retford.
  
  ## History
  
  The church dates from 1829. It was consecrated on 27 September 1829 by the Rt. Revd. Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt Archbishop of York as a daughter church of St John the Baptist Church, Clarborough, the church became a parish in its own right in 1871. It was restored in 1878. In 2002 it was united with St Swithun's and St Michael's in Retford to become a joint parish. Following further re-organisation, St. Saviour's became a single parish again in 2019 covering much of the east side of Retford.
  
  Two stained glass memorial windows are by Charles Eamer Kempe
  
  ## Clergy
  
  * Joshua William Brooks 1827 - 1843
  * Charles Hodge 1844 - 1858
  * James Disney 1860 - 1876
  * Lawrence Roworth 1877 - 1913
  * Edwin Paxton 1914 - 1927
  * Frederic Eddy 1927 - 1930
  * Edward Hester 1931 - 1933
  * Lawrence Ashcroft 1934 - 1943
  * James Godsmark 1943 - 1955
  * Thomas Womack 1956 - 1967
  * John Moore 1967 - 1973
  * John Tompkins 1973 - 1987
  * Tony Walker 1988 - 2017
  * Ben Clayton 2018–Present
  