Description

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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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Mary's Church at Wikipedia
• St Mary's Church official website
• Wikidata Q17531005

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  For the Record
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5