Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1151903
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1151903
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
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 ST PETER AND ST PAUL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Todwick
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 49746 84126
Details
SOUTH YORKSHIRE ROTHERHAM 5097
TODWICK SK48SE 4/92 Church of St Peter 29.7.86 and St. Paul
II*
Church. C11 nave with later porch and windows, chancel of C14 origin, C15 tower; C18 and C19 alterations. Rubble sandstone nave, otherwise ashlar and coursed, squared limestone; lead and graduated slate roofs. West tower, 3- bay nave with south porch, 2-bay chancel. Tower: 3 stages, Perpendicular style. Chamfered plinth and moulded band. Diagonal buttresses flank 3-light west window with cusped, pointed lights in cavetto-moulded surround with pointed arch and hoodmould. String courses between stages, slit windows to south- west internal stair. 2-light louvred belfry openings with pointed arches and hoodmoulds. North and south waterspouts beneath embattled parapet with 8 crocketed pinnacles. Nave: large quoins. Gabled porch to bay 1 has chamfered, round-arched doorway, ashlar gable copings with cuboidal apex sundial and cross;similar inner doorway under hoodmould; C14 roof with moulded, cambered tie beams to king-post trusses, that above outer door with carved scallop shell, rafters renewed 1976. Two C18 nave windows with pointed, square-faced surrounds. Blocked C11 north door on right of square-headed double-chamfered window, its tracery removed. Plain parapets. Chancel: narrower and with lower eaves. Chamfered plinth, quoins. Square-headed priest's door with deep lintel and dripstone flanked by C19 Decorated-style 2-light windows, that on left pointed and on right square-headed. Unrestored C14 3-light east window with intersecting glazing bars and hoodmould. Gable copings with cross. Interior: double- chamfered tower arch, its inner order on corbels. Nave has ogee-headed tomb recess on north wall; roof dated 1702 with moulded tie beams and short king posts. Chancel: round arch of two orders, reworked. Re-set trefoil-headed piscina in north wall. Fittings: font, brought from Worksop Abbey in 1876, has octagonal shaft and moulded bowl. Box pews, fielded dado panelling and inlaid semi-octagonal pulpit; Royal arms of George III on north wall. Jacobean, balustraded altar rail. Monuments: on blocked north door of nave an early C18 cartouche to the Ashley family of Todwick Grange; C19 wall tablet to Fox family also of Todwick Grange. Brass in hooded recess at south-east corner of nave to Thomas Garland (d1609) has figure pointing to motto 'POST TENEBRAS SPERO LUCEM'. Chancel: to north of east window a black marble tablet to John Garland (d1691) with winged cherubs and cartouche; on south side a pedimented tablet to'Eliz. Ixem' (d1664) and her 2 sons; brass on right to Elizabeth Wrightson (d1664) with Latin inscription and English verse. Stained glass: nave north window depicts St. George and is in memory of 1st World War dead.
Listing NGR: SK4974684126
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335842
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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