St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church
St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church, St Leonards Road, Eastwood, Rotherham, S65 1PA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192639
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church
- Statutory Address:
- St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church, St Leonards Road, Eastwood, Rotherham, S65 1PA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192639
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church, St Leonards Road, Eastwood, Rotherham, S65 1PA
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:
- St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church, St Leonards Road, Eastwood, Rotherham, S65 1PA
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 43349 93235
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10 January 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SK49SW
5/62
ROTHERHAM
ST LEONARDS ROAD
St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church
(Formerly listed as ST. ANN'S ROAD (east side) Church of St. Stephen)
II
Church. 1874 by T. D. Barry and Son of Liverpool; superintendent architect E. I. Hubbard; tower and spire of original scheme not erected until 1910, chancel extended 1912 (Happs). Coursed, rock-faced sandstone, Welsh slate roof. 6-bay nave with aisles, north-west porch and south-west tower. Two-bay chancel with separately-roofed addition to south and lean-to vestry to north. Gothic Revival, Decorated-style tracery.
Tower: offset angle buttresses. West door in gabled projection infilling buttresses has two orders of colonnettes to pointed arch. Cusped lancet beneath paired two-light belfry openings with blind panels, louvres and tracery beneath pointed arches. Buttresses terminate as gablets with carved-head stops. Corbel table and string course with corner gargoyles beneath ashlar parapet with roll-moulded copings. Recessed octagonal spire with crockets near top.
Nave: aisles have chamfered plinths and offset buttresses between bays; two-light windows with stained glass and carved stops to hoodmoulds, doorway to east bay on north side. Two-light clerestorey windows with segmentally-pointed arches. Four-light west window with, to its left, a two-light aisle window and beyond an octagonal bell turret with spirelet at junction with gabled north porch. Steeply-pitched roofs with gable copings and iron crosses, crested ridge tiles to porch.
Chancel: lower and with five-light east window flanked by diagonal buttresses. Two-light windows to side walls and another to south addition. Square-headed three-light window to vestry with pointed door to its west. Gable copings, chancel cross, crested ridges.
Interior: six-bay arcade to north aisle and five-bay arcade to south, octagonal piers with carved capitals and chamfered pointed arches. Moulded chancel arch. Encaustic tiles. East window by T. W. Camm of Smethick, 1910.
M. E. Happs, A Brief History of St. Stephen"s Church Rotherham 1874-1974.1974.
Listing NGR: SK4334993235
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335697
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Happs, M E, A Brief History of St Stephens Church Rotherham 1874-1974, (1974)
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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