NUTHALL, a parish in the southern division of the
wapentake of BROXTOW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 4
miles (N.W.) from Nottingham, containing, with the
chapelry of Awsworth, 465 inhabitants. The living is
a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham,
and diocese of York, rated in the king's books
at £3. 14. 9., and in the patronage of Robert Holden,
Esq., whose elegant mansion, Nuthall-Temple, occupying
a commanding site near the village, is built in
imitation of the Villa Capra, at Vicenza in Italy, one
of the most celebrated works of Palladio. The church
is dedicated to St. Patrick. Richard Smedley, in 1744,
gave certain land, directing the income to be applied in
teaching twenty children.