CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1151740
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1968
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Silkstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 29086 05844
Details
SE 2906 SILKSTONE HIGH STREET
(East side)
11/154 Church of All Saints
18.3.68
GV I
Church. C12 in origin, remodelled later C15, and completed 1495, chancel
rebuilt 1852-8, general C19 restoration. Ashlar. Lead chancel roof. West
tower, 5-bay nave with lean-to aisles, south porch, 3-bay chancel with 2-bay
aisles and single-bay vestry in south-east corner. Perpendicular style.
Tall two-stage tower with diagonal buttresses. Moulded west doorway with
deeply set, hollow-chamfered traceried window above. 2-light transomed,
traceried bell-chamber openings. Crenellated parapets with corner gargoyles
and pinnacles. Low nave and aisles with 2-light square-headed clerestorey
windows and 3-light arched aisle windows. Blocked doorway on north side,
west end. Taller chancel with low projecting chapels which have 3-light
windows as before. Blocked south chapel door. The aisle walls have low
buttresses which rise as square pinnacles and are connected back to the wall
by flying buttresses in the form of angels, grotesque figures and beasts.
Crenellated parapets to aisles and nave.
Interior: 5-bay double-chamfered arcade on circular piers (possibly re-used
(Pevsner). Perpendicular roofs to nave and aisles with good bosses.
Chancel arch and north chapel arcade on semi-circular responds of C12 date
and survive from the crossing which supported a central tower. Blocked rood
stair on south wall of south chapel. Perpendicular chancel and chapel
screens, all different and slightly altered. Two medieval shields in east
window of south chapel. Tomb in south chapel to Sir Thomas Wentworth d. 1675
and his wife: white marble recumbent effigies the former in armour, on a
large sarcophagus with relief trophies to sides. The memorial behind has
colonnettes supporting an open segmental pediment with shield and urns.
Sandstone cartouche in chancel to John Phipps of Pule Hill d. 1718 with
winged angels at top corners and skull and cross bones at bottom corners.
Box pews of 1832-5.
N Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1967
P F Ryder, Saxon Churches in South Yorkshire, for the South Yorkshire
Archaeological Service, 1982.
Listing NGR: SE2908605845
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334283
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)
Ryder, P F, 'South Yorkshire County Archaeological Monograph' in Saxon Churches in South Yorkshire, (1982)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing