Church of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building located on Church Street in Barnsley. The tower dates back to around 1400, while the rest of the church was constructed in 1822 by architects Woodhead and Hurst. The interior underwent restoration around 1870 by G. F. Bodley, with further alterations made by Wade and Turner in 1885. The tower is built of deeply-coursed rubble, while the remainder of the church features ashlar stonework and a Welsh slate roof. The tower showcases a Perpendicular style, while the rest of the church is designed in an Early English style.

The west tower has two tall stages with diagonal buttresses and a west door beneath a three-light 19th-century window featuring Perpendicular tracery. The belfry has two-light openings with trefoil cusped lights, and the tower is topped with a crenellated parapet adorned with eight crocketed pinnacles. The church's windows are primarily narrow three-light designs with cusped intersecting tracery, and the east window, which has five lights and Perpendicular tracery, likely dates from the 1870 restoration. The porches are square, the aisles have flat roofs, and the nave roof is low-pitched, all complemented by crenellated ashlar parapets and tall crocketed pinnacles.

Inside, the church features five-bay north and south arcades supported by clustered piers, with panelled roofs in the nave and aisles and a ribbed roof in the chancel. A notable geometrical chancel screen with an iron grill, designed by G. F. Bodley, adds to the interior's character. There are two large painted panels at the foot of the tower, framed in eared architraves, listing donors to the poor from the 15th to early 18th centuries. The church also contains several wall memorials from the mid-18th to early 19th centuries, as well as fine late 19th-century stained glass in the north aisle and early 19th-century stained glass depicting the four evangelists in the north chapel, which has been reset from the east window. Additional late 19th-century stained glass is present in the south aisle.