Buildings
Parts of the parish church of All Saints date back to the 12th century. It is a Grade I listed building, "one of the S Notts churches which were reduced in size in post-Reformation times." According to the English Heritage description, it stands on a pre-Conquest site and underwent restoration about 1777 and in 1888. A Roman altar stone was dug up in the churchyard in 1812.
The village also has five groups of churchyard gravestones, four farmhouses, a telephone kiosk and a parish pump that are Grade II listed features. Granby Farmhouse in Church St bears the date 1762.
The Wesleyan Methodist congregation in the village is thought to have dated from 1807. There was already "a place of worship for Wesleyans" in 1848. However, the congregation dwindled and the chapel was converted into a private house in the early 2000s.
The advowson of Granby was held by the Duke of Rutland, but from 1917, the vicar of Granby was also the rector of St Michael and All Angels, Elton on the Hill, a village two miles to the north, and appointments thereafter were made by agreement between the two patrons. Now both churches are part of the Wiverton Group, and a Sunday service is held in them alternately.
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