Quadring is a small village lying on the A152 two miles south-east of Donington. The sign centre-right advertises Warwick's Newark Ales at the White Hart, now Quadring's last surviving pub.

A postcard sent in 1965.

School viewed from St Margaret's churchyard.

Kelly's Directory 1930 notes " Thomas Cowley esq. in 1718 left an endowment of 44 acres of land to this parish, and this was supplemented at a later period by a gift of 26 acres, by Edward Brown esq. ; the major portion of the joint devises is devoted to the education of children, the smaller portion being distributed in gifts to the poor of the parish."

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School sign viewed from Cross Gate.

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Former Baptist chapel at 6 Water Gate.

"THE EBENEZER QUADRING PARTICULAR BAPTIST FUND" is a registered charity No. 1110852 however "The charity's funds have now all been disbursed, and the bank accounts closed. The charity is therefore now closed with effect from 30 June 2023".

https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/4016674/charity-overview 

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Datestone reads "EBENEZER BAPTIST CHAPEL 1869".

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The OS 25 inch map published 1904 shows a Post Office on this site next to the crossroads.

The Post Office Directory 1868 has "POST OFFICE. - John Butterfield, receiver. Letters through Spalding, arrive at 6.15 a.m.; dispatched at 7.13 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Donington"

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Former Red Cow public house. Signage currently states "The Curry Inn Licensed Restaurant & Take-Away".

The Post Office Directory 1868 has "Sindall Thomas William, Red Cow". Kelly's Directory 1930 has "Hempsall Wm. Red Cow P.H".

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Church services currently being held in St Margaret's Hall rather than the parish church.

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This is a fine example of the Perpendicular style of architecture. The chancel is Norman in origin but largely rebuilt in 1862.

Mark Acton, 2008

Church viewed from the east. 

White's Directory 1872 has :-

"The Church (St. Margaret) is a venerable Gothic edifice, with a tower and spire, and containing 400 sittings.

The benefice, which was united with that of Wigtoft till 1870, is a vicarage, valued in K.B. at £10. 1s. 3d., and now at £282, per annum, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln and incumbency of the Rev. Forster Ashwin, B.A., for whom a parsonage house has just been erected."

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Kelly's Directory 1930 notes :-

"The church of St. Margaret is a fine edifice in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, with spire, containing 5 bells, which were retuned at a cost of £200 in 1904, when a new floor was provided at a cost of £60:

there are tablets to the memory of Brestovius Brown esq. ob. 1680, and Edward Brown esq. ob. 1739, respectively:

in the north aisle is a tablet with the figure of an ecclesiastic, his head upon a pillow and holding a chalice, and an inscription to Richard Peresone, vicar 1472:

in 1868-72 the church was partially restored, under the superintendence of Mr. Charles Kirk, architect, the chancel being rebuilt, a new porch erected and the interior of the chancel refitted, and in 1896 the roof of both aisles was restored and the interior reseated, at a cost of about £450:

in 1904 the nave roof was restored at a cost of £500:

there are 350 sittings"

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The Post Office Directory 1868 states :-

"The church of St. Margaret is a fine old Gothic edifice, with nave, aisles, chancel, tower and spire:

in 1862 upwards of £1,000 was expended in its restoration :

there are two tablets to the memory of Brestovius and Edward Brown, Esqrs., in 1680 and 1739.

The register dates from the year 1681.

The living is a discharged vicarage, united in 1729 to that of Wigtoft, joint annual value £412, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and held by the Rev. John Wilson, M.A., of St. Catherine's College, Cambridge; the Rev. W. J. R. Constable, M.A., of Donington, is afternoon lecturer"

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One entrance to the churchyard is via a public footpath to the side of Cowley & Browns Primary School.

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Church noticeboard stating

"SUNDAY SERVICES UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

ALL REGULAR SUNDAY SERVICES ARE HELD IN THE CHURCH HALL CHAPEL" 

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View across the church glimpsed through a window in the south aisle. 

"C15 four bay nave arcades"

 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147013?section=official-list-entry

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View across the church glimpsed through a window in the south aisle. 

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North aisle has a "continuously moulded and pointed doorway".

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147013?section=official-list-entry 

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"Gabled C19 south porch with tall moulded pointed arch and single chamfered, moulded hood, triple filleted responds"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147013?section=official-list-entry 

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"Fine deeply hollow moulded and filleted inner door with richly moulded hood"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147013?section=official-list-entry 

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South aisle glimpsed through the west window.

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An inscription in the glass reads "Remember in Christ Mary Randall".

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"3 stage C15 tower with stepped corner buttresses having cusped knopped gablettes ... Set back octagonal spire with 2 tiers of lucarnes in the principal directions"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147013?section=official-list-entry

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"The western doorway has a 4 centred arched head with deep hollow moulding and fleuron frieze"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1147013?section=official-list-entry 

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Village sign at the crossroads. Depicts an agricultural scene with the church in the background.

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The reinforced concrete water tower at Quadring, octagonal in plan, was erected in 1954. It is shown here partly demolished in 1994.

Photo courtesy Hilary Healey

Unfortunately the White Hart, 7 Town Drove, seems to have closed as of April 2024.

https://www1.camra.org.uk/pubs/white-hart-quadring-168013 

https://sites.google.com/view/doningtonillustrated/quadring/quadring-pubs-inns/white-hart 

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