The Samworth Church Academy is to be located on the current Sherwood Hall School site in Mansfield, Nottingham. It replaces the existing Sherwood Hall School and Sixth Form College. The Academy is being built on part of the site of the Sherwood Hall School with six forms of entry, and room for 900 11-16 year old students and a sixth form of 250.

The Academy is jointly sponsored by the Church of England, through the Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham, and Mr David Samworth, a local businessman. Mr Samworth is sponsoring two other new academies in both Leicester and Nottingham, one of which Caunton is supplying the structural steelwork to also.

The Samworth Church Academy, entirely framed in steel, is divided into five distinct blocks. These blocks form five clear individual schools within the development. They are divided as follows - Humanities & PSD (titled Hardwick),  Maths & Business Base (Sherwood),  Communications (Newstead), Outdoor Education, Sports & Performing Arts (Welbeck), and Science Technology & ICT (Rufford). All blocks are three storey beam and column structures supporting pre-cast concrete floors and pc concrete access staircases.

Sustainability features include the use of the thermal mass of the building for cooling, natural ventilation, rainwater harvesting (the use of grey water), a Biomass Boiler and a “Brown Roof” for the roof above the drama studio.
The buildings’ extent is 10350m² of total floor area, and requires over 500te of structural steelwork.