Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1314575
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1314575
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH STREET
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 45210 99367
Details
SK49NE SWINTON CHURCH STREET (north side, off)
6/25 Church of St. Margaret
GV II
Church. Tower 1817; the rest rebuilt 1899 by E. Isle Hubbard following a fire of 1897. Ashlar-sandstone tower; otherwise coursed, squared sandstone with red tile roofs. 3-stage west tower; 6-bay aisled nave with additional bay overlapping tower; lower 2-bay chancel with north chapel and gabled, 2-storey, vestry projection to south. Gothic revival style. Tower: offset angle buttresses rise as pinnacles above embattled parapet. String course at each stage. Pointed arch to west door; intersecting glazing bars to overlight; pointed hoodmould beneath flat- headed hoodmould. 2-light window to 2nd stage with Y-tracery. Similar 2-light belfry openings with louvres, inset clockfaces and hoodmoulds. Nave: offset buttresses between aisle bays. Aisles and clerestorey have coupled, pointed windows with shared hoodmoulds; floral- and head-carved hoodstops. Moulded kneelers and gable copings with cross. Chancel in same style. Vestry with priest door to left of 3-light window; stepped 3-light window over. East window of 5 stepped lights.
Interior: beneath tower: 2 panelled doors in reeded architraves; date plaque records rebuilding. Nave: circular piers and moulded capitals to double-chamfered arcades; hoodmoulds spring from carved corbels from which attached columns rise to corbels of hammer-beam trusses. Aisle windows have central colonnettes to cusped-headed inner lights. 4-bay blind-arcaded panel over tower door. Tall, double-chamfered chancel arch, 2-bay arcade to north chapel.
Listing NGR: SK4521099367
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 335534
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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