Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314575
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314575
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH STREET
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 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
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335534
- 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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