Church of All Saints
Church of All Saints, Church Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1132733
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- Church of All Saints, Church Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1132733
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of All Saints, Church Street
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Church of All Saints, Church Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 42840 92879
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 December 2021 to update text and reformat to current standards
SK4892
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CHURCH STREET (east side)
Church of All Saints
(Formerly listed under Church Street)
GV
I
Church. C14 chancel heightened in C16, early C15 tower, rest completed late C15 and early C16; C18 and C19 restorations principally that by George Gilbert Scott of 1873-75. Ashlar sandstone, lead roofs. Cruciform plan : four-bay aisled nave with south porch, crossing tower and transepts, chancel with north and south chapels and north vestry. Perpendicular : intersecting and panel tracery, embattlements with crocketed pinnacles. Nave : chamfered plinth, angle buttresses and buttresses between bays. three moulded bands beneath transomed four-light aisle windows with crocketed and finialled hoodmoulds. Gabled porch to bay two has diagonal buttresses and miniature buttresses with pinnacles flanking door. Unrestored south door within porch has angel corbels to crocketed hood. North aisle: less restored and with well-carved hoodmoulds depicting shepherds and their flocks. West door flanked by miniature pinnacled buttresses and beneath blind panels. Transomed seven-light west window flanked by buttresses and transomed four-light aisle windows. Eight clerestorey windows of three-lights with hoodmoulds; buttresses with gargoyles and pinnacles between each window.
Transepts : six-light windows to north and south, three-light windows to east and west, south door. Tower : pinnacled angle buttresses flank paired four-light belfry openings each with king mullion and two transoms, blind panels beneath louvres. Gargoyles flank clock on each face. Recessed octagonal spire with crocketed arrises and pinnacled shafts rising from corner faces, gilded weather-vane. Chancel : south chapel has two four-light windows with uncusped lights, small three-light window to eastern-most bay of chancel. North chapel has triangular arches to treble-chamfered windows. Four clerestorey windows each with three-Tudor-arched lights beneath pointed arch. Buttresses flank transomed seven-light east window with carved busts to hoodmould stops; gable niche and cross.
Interior : nave arcades have lozenge-shaped piers with three attached shafts to nave and aisle sides; capitals with carved foliage and hidden faces beneath embattled band; moulded arches. Heavily-moulded crossing arches with carved capitals to the attached shafts. Earlier arcades to chapels have octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches. Sedilia with three ogee-headed recesses, one with squint into south chapel. Excellent C15 roof to nave with moulded members and carved bosses. Early C16 roofs to chancel and south chapel. Early C15 fan-vaulting to crossing.
Fittings : excellent octagonal pulpit of 1604 with C18 sounding board with cherubs and corona with dove. Font in south aisle c1879 has spire cover. C12 font in north aisle, weathered. Organ by Snetzler 1777 in north transept, restored 1890. Excellent choir stalls with two misericords and figure-carved bench ends depicting the Annunciation; also some freestanding benches with traceried end panels. C15 canopied parclose screen with partitions south chapel from transept; another restored section in north chapel arcade (both probably from original rood screen).
Monuments : numerous wall monuments in south transept including that to Samuel Buck d.1806, by Flaxman; another to 50 victims of a boat disaster at Masborough in 1841 by Edwin Smith of Sheffield. Dresser tomb in north chapel with excellent brass to Robert Swift (d.1561) and Anne (d.1539). Many C17 and C18 brasses attached to piers of chancel and crossing. Glass : east window by Clayton and Bell, designed by Scott. Other windows by A. Gibbs, Camm Bros., Heaton, Butler and Bayne and James Bell (Pevsner, p420).
N. Pevsner, BOE, 2nd Ed. 1967, pp 418-420.
Listing NGR: SK4283992876
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335635
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 418-20
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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