Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314612
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314612
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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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 MARY, HIGH 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 43588 95927
Details
SK49NW RAWMARSH HIGH STREET (west side)
5/18 Church of St. Mary
8.10.62 GV II
Church. Rebuilt 1839 by J. P. Pritchett; tower rebuilt 1869 incorporating remains of an C11 or C12 doorway; chancel extended, organ-chamber and vestry added c1896 by Platts of Rotherham (Cater, p13). Coursed, squared sandstone, Welsh slate roof. West tower, 4-bay nave with aisles, lower single-bay apsidal chancel with north organ chamber and south vestry. Gothic revival, largely in Early English style.
Tower: 3 stages. Heavily-restored Norman south door with 3 orders of colonnettes within recess. Stair-turret to south-west corner. 2-light window to 2nd stage. Paired belfry openings with louvres and hoodmoulds. Clock beneath quatrefoil-pierced parapet. 8 pinnacles.
Nave: buttresses to angles and between bays. Chamfered band beneath coupled lancets, hoodmoulds with carved-head stops. Groups of 3 lancets to each bay of clerestorey.
Chancel: angle buttresses. Vestry gabled and at right angles to chancel with group of 3 lancets beneath corbelled parapet with gable cross. East window of 3 lights above apron with blind quatrefoils. Corbel-table to coped gable with cross.
Interior: nave arcades double-chamfered, octagonal piers. Chancel arch: tripartite responds and carved capitals to moulded arch. Decorative roof trusses with cusped-headed panels. Brass dated 1616 to south of chancel arch: to John Darley of Kilnhurst, depicts 4 sons and 4 daughters kneeling before his coffin. Wall monument dated 1667 in north aisle: to Maria, daughter of Thomas Wentworth; inscribed plaque flanked by Corinthian columns beneath broken pediment with heraldic device. Cross base and shaft beneath tower, probably C12 (Ryder).
P. M. Cater, A History of St. Mary's Church Rawmarsh, 1981.
P. F. Ryder, Saxon Churches in South Yorkshire, 1982, pp116-117.
Listing NGR: SK4359095927
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335527
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cater, P M, A History of St Marys Church Rawmarsh, (1981)
Ryder, P F, South Yorkshire County Archaeological Monograph in Saxon Churches in South Yorkshire, (1982), 116-117
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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