Church Of St Mary

SK49NW ROTHERHAM CHURCH STREET (south side), Greasbrough 2/17 Church of St. Mary 13.5.69 - II Church. 1826-28 by Charles Watson and J. P. Pritchett. Deeply-coursed, horizontally-tooled sandstone; tile roofs. Orientation almost north/south. 5-bay nave and chancel in one with school room in half-basement beneath chancel; tower at north end flanked by low porches with lean-to roofs against nave. Gothic revival: hoodmoulds, embattled parapets to body of church and porches, crocketed corner pinnacles. Tower: full-height, offset, diagonal buttresses; double door beneath transomed 2-light window; offset band below and above clock in chamfered, square recess; 2-light louvred belfry openings. Buttresses rise as pinnacles linked by crested balustrade with ogee-headed openings. Porches each have double door; lancet in side wall. Body of church: deeply-chamfered band above square-headed basement windows at chancel end. Angle buttresses rise as pinnacles. Sill band links transomed 2-light windows with cusping. Narrow transomed windows flank 3-light transomed altar window which has stained glass and quatrefoil opening above. Roll-moulded embattlement copings. Interior: west gallery with balustrade of trefoil-headed panels bearing Royal Coat of Arms. Dado in same style. C18 benefactions boards in porches - salvaged from Holy Trinity Chapel which formerly occupied the site. Octagonal font with excellent Jacobean carved-oak cover now raised as a canopy on C20 frame (removed from Rotherham All Saints Church c1875). Largely financed by the Church Commissioners and William, Earl Fitzwilliam who was entrusted with the management of the building.

Listing NGR: SK4181595677