Church of St Alban
CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193491
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Alban
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193491
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Alban
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, CHURCH LANE
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 ALBAN, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wickersley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 47834 91666
Details
WICKERSLEY CHURCH LANE SK49SE (north side) 2/134 Church of St. Alban 29.3.68 GV II Church. C15 and C19. Ashlar and dressed sandstone, Welsh slate roof. West tower, 3-bay nave with lean-to vestry in north-west angle with tower, 2-bay chancel with north organ chamber. Tower: 4 stages, lower 3 stages C15 in Perpendicular style, upper stage added C19 in same style. Chamfered plinth and moulded band; pointed-arched door in south side. Offset diagonal buttresses flank 3-light west window with hoodmould. String courses to each stage, 3rd stage has blocked belfry window of 2 cusped lights with hoodmould. Tall C19 upper stage with blocked 2-light west window; north and south windows of both C15 and C19 belfry stages are louvred. String course with corner gargoyles and waterspouts beneath embattled parapet with 8 crocketed pinnacles. Nave: 1834-36. Chamfered plinth. Central bay breaks forward and has moulded sill band to tall transomed 2-light window with Y-tracery beneath pointed head with hoodmould; outer bays have similar windows without hoods. Cornice and parapet with roll-moulded copings rising to peak over embattled central gable; hipped roof. Added vestry has 3-light mullioned window. Chancel: 1886. Lower. Blocked south priest's door with pointed arch and hoodmould; C18 and C19 headstones in wall on right beneath two cusped 1-light windows with square hoodmoulds having uncarved stops. More headstones beneath east window of 3 cusped lights with Tudor-arched head having head-carved stops to hoodmould. Shaped kneelers and gable copings with apex cross. Interior: double-chamfered tower arch. Nave windows have hoodmoulds with head-carved stops; corbels to vaulted aisles rising to central flat ceiling with gilded bosses. Chamfered, pointed chancel arch. Stained glass: 1880-89 mostly by H. M. Barnett of Newcastle. Monuments: C17 and C18 brasses on plaque beneath tower. Grave slab in north aisle to Roger de Wickersley (d1472) and wife Margaret, inscription in early English around family arms; to north-east of nave are 3 wall tablets to the Yates family of Wickersley Hall by Smith of Sheffield. Benefactions board beneath tower. The rest of the C15 church was demolished in 1833.
Listing NGR: SK4783491666
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 336009
- 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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