SNEINTON is an eastern suburb of Nottingham, included in the municipal and parliamentary borough and parish of Nottingham, consisting of Old and New Sneinton, Sneinton Elements and the Hermitage, near the Trent. This place was formerly named “Snottengaton,” and is by some thought to have been the original settlement of the town of Nottingham. The church of St. Stephen, rebuilt in 1839, is a cruciform building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts and a centred tower containing a clock and 3 bells: there are 23 stained windows: there are 600 sittings. The register dates from the year 1650, and is in good condition. The living was declared a vicarage 26th June, 1866, net yearly value £181, with 29 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Earl Manvers, and held since 1902 by the Rev. the Hon. Robert Macgill Dalrymple M. A. of Christ Church, Oxford.

St. Matthias’ is an ecclesiastical parish, formed 15 Jan.1869 The church is an edifice of brick and stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of semi-circular apsidal chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret containing one bell: there are 550 sittings. The register dates from the year 1868. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £153, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and is now (May 1904) vacant.

St. Clement’s, a mission church to St. Matthias, was built in 1887—8, at a cost of £560, and seats 200.

St. Alban’s is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1888, from the parishes of St. Stephen and St. Matthias. The church, in Bond street, erected in 1887, at a cost of £10,447, is a structure of red brick with stone facings, in the Late Decorated style, from the designs of Messrs. Bodley and Garner, of London, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, chapel, south porch and a north-western turret containing one bell: the staihed east window was erected in 1888, at a cost of £200, as a memorial to the late Rev. Vernon Wollaston Hutton M. A. vicar of Sneinton, 1868—84, and hon. canon of Lincoln, d.1887: there are 565 sittings. The register dates from the year 1887. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £205, in the gift of the trustees, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Francis Charles Finch M. A. of St. John’s College, Cambridge.

St. Christopher’s Mission Iron church, in Colwick road, is a chapel of ease to St. Stephen’s, and has 300 sittings. The Albion Congregational chapel, in the Sneinton road, erected in 1856, at a cost of £4,150, is a large building of red brick with stone dressings, in the Italian style: and will seat 850 persons. The United Free Methodists and Wesleyans have also places of worship here. Sneinton Church Institute, Notintone street, presented to the parish in 1879 and opened by Viscount Newark, February 1880, is a red brick building with stone dressings, in the Early English style, and contains a large hall on the first floor and lower rooms for use of clubs: it is held by trustees and is supported by the letting of the large hall for entertainments and by payments made by the various clubs which use the lower rooms: among these are the Young Men’s Institute. The Hermitage is a range of perpendicular rocks overlooking the Vale of the Trent: the quaint-looking houses built in the craggy front of the caves are very picturesque and interesting. Here are brick fields. The County Lunatic Asylum is in this parish. The charities amount to £27 yearly. Earl Manvers, who is lord of the manor, and John P. Chaworth-Musters esq J.P. of Annesley Park, are the principal landowners.