Church of St Martin
CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192451
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, NEW ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192451
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, NEW ROAD
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 MARTIN, NEW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Firbeck
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 56216 88460
Details
FIRBECK NEW ROAD SK58NE (north side) 3/15 Church of St Martin
GV II
Church. Rebuilt 1820, north aisle added 1844, enlarged 1887 for Henry Gladwyn Jebb by E. I. Hubbard of Rotherham, tower added 1900 in Jebb's memory. Ashlar limestone, slate roofs. 4-bay nave with south porch, north aisle and north-west tower, 2-bay chancel with apse. Nave: chamfered plinth, gabled buttresses to east and west and between windows have chamfered arrises. Gabled porch to bay 2 has chamfered round arch with hoodmould, niche with figure of St. Peter beneath roll-moulded gable copings with cross. Other bays with 3-lancet-light windows having shafted jambs and mullions and round-arched heads. Eaves cornice. Gable copings and crosses as porch. Tower set to rear described from west. Nave west window as south has buttress on right and single lancet over. Tower on left with angle buttress strips and round-arched window with similar paired windows over, hoodmoulds on brackets; string course beneath belfry arcade with shafts, louvres and zig- zag-moulded round arches beneath shared hoodmoulds; corbel table to corniced parapet; pyramidal lead roof with weather vane. Chancel: lower and narrower. South window as nave, sundial on right inscribed 'Erected A.D. 1821'. Round-headed 1-light windows to each face of apse, hoodmoulds. Corbel table to eaves, east cross at hip. Interior: north arcade of 1887 with scalloped capitals to round arches of 2 orders, end arches smaller; round chancel arch of same date. Monuments: at east end of north aisle to John West (d 1659) and wife Frances (d 1657) with Latin inscription in recess beneath archivolt. North aisle wall: 2 C19 wall monuments to the Knight family of Langold. South chancel wall: to Fidelia Knight (d 1671), inscribed black slab in bayleaf architrave. Stone benefactions slab at west end of nave, varous hatchments. Other monuments and fuller history detailed in: C. Stocks, Firbeck and the Three Estates, 1979, pp 38-51.
Listing NGR: SK5621688460
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335761
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stocks, C, Firbeck and the Three Estates, (1979), 38-51
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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