Church Of St Saviour

SE60SE AUCKLEY MAIN STREET. (west side) 4/2 Church of St. Saviour - GV II Church. 1837. By William Hurst of Doncaster (Woodhouse p.61). Yellow brick in Flemish bond, C20 cement-tile roof. Combined nave and chancel with north and south porches; 3 bays. Gothic Revival style. Chamfered plinth. Central north porch has panelled door and pointed overlight in chamfered brick surround with string course rising as hoodmould and peaked string course over; ashlar gable copings rise to apex block with gablets. Sides of porch have square-headed, 2-light mullioned windows with string course rising over as a hoodmould. Outer bays have string course continued from porch and pilaster buttresses to outer sides of 2-light windows having cusped cast-iron tracery in double-chamfered, pointed-arched surrounds with hoodmoulds. Eaves band with corbelled blocks forming kneelers to ashlar gable copings; east cross; ashlar west bellcote. East window is of 3-lights with cusped, cast- iron tracery. West end has 2 blind lancet windows and gable vesica. The cast-iron windows were supplied by Messrs. Marshall of Derby; other building details recorded in: Rev G. H. Woodhouse, Finningley, 1877.

Listing NGR: SE6518700734