Church of St Mary
Church of St Mary, Church Street, Barnsley, S70 2AH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1315008
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary, Church Street, Barnsley, S70 2AH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1315008
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Mary, Church Street, Barnsley, S70 2AH
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 Mary, Church Street, Barnsley, S70 2AH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 34356 06656
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 July 2021 to correct the architects' names, correct the sources and to reformat the text to current standards
SE3406NW
8/13
BARNSLEY
CHURCH STREET (west side),
Church of St. Mary
GV
II*
Church. Tower c1400, the rest 1822 by Woodhead and Hurst, interior restored c1870 by G. F. Bodley and further alterations by Wade and Turner in 1885 . The tower is of deeply-coursed rubble, the rest ashlar. Welsh slate roof. Perpendicular west tower, the rest is in Early English style. West tower, five-bay nave with aisles and north and south porches, two bay chancel with one bay side chapels. Later vestry to north (in keeping). Tower: two tall stages with diagonal buttresses. West door under three-light C19 window with Perpendicular tracery. Two-light belfry openings with trefoil cusped lights. C19 crenellated parapet with eight crocketed pinnacles. The rest of the church has mainly narrow three-light windows with cusped intersecting tracery. The east window is of five lights with Perpendicular tracery probably part of c1870 restoration. The porches are square. Aisles are flat-roofed; the nave roof low-pitched. Crenellated ashlar parapets, with tall crocketed pinnacles to nave and aisles.
Interior: five bay north and south arcades on clustered piers. Panelled nave and aisle roofs, ribbed chancel roof. Good, geometrical chancel screen with iron grill, by G. F. Bodley. Two, large painted panels in eared architraves at foot of tower, with list of Donors to the poor from the C15 to early C18. Several wall memorials from mid C18 to early C19. Good late C19 stained glass to north aisle. Early C19 stained glass of four evangelists in north chapel, reset from east window. Other late C19 stained glass to south aisle.
Listing NGR: SE3435606656
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333699
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harman, R, Pevsner, N, Sharples, J, The Buildings of England Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, (2017), 109
Other
West Yorkshire History Centre - St Mary’s Church, Barnsley (ref: WDP121/additional box 10)
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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