Description

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

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