St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church

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ROTHERHAM ST LEONARDS ROAD St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church

(Formerly listed as ST. ANN'S ROAD (east side) Church of St. Stephen)

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Church. 1874 by T. D. Barry and Son of Liverpool; superintendent architect E. I. Hubbard; tower and spire of original scheme not erected until 1910, chancel extended 1912 (Happs). Coursed, rock-faced sandstone, Welsh slate roof. 6-bay nave with aisles, north-west porch and south-west tower. Two-bay chancel with separately-roofed addition to south and lean-to vestry to north. Gothic Revival, Decorated-style tracery.

Tower: offset angle buttresses. West door in gabled projection infilling buttresses has two orders of colonnettes to pointed arch. Cusped lancet beneath paired two-light belfry openings with blind panels, louvres and tracery beneath pointed arches. Buttresses terminate as gablets with carved-head stops. Corbel table and string course with corner gargoyles beneath ashlar parapet with roll-moulded copings. Recessed octagonal spire with crockets near top.

Nave: aisles have chamfered plinths and offset buttresses between bays; two-light windows with stained glass and carved stops to hoodmoulds, doorway to east bay on north side. Two-light clerestorey windows with segmentally-pointed arches. Four-light west window with, to its left, a two-light aisle window and beyond an octagonal bell turret with spirelet at junction with gabled north porch. Steeply-pitched roofs with gable copings and iron crosses, crested ridge tiles to porch.

Chancel: lower and with five-light east window flanked by diagonal buttresses. Two-light windows to side walls and another to south addition. Square-headed three-light window to vestry with pointed door to its west. Gable copings, chancel cross, crested ridges.

Interior: six-bay arcade to north aisle and five-bay arcade to south, octagonal piers with carved capitals and chamfered pointed arches. Moulded chancel arch. Encaustic tiles. East window by T. W. Camm of Smethick, 1910.

M. E. Happs, A Brief History of St. Stephen"s Church Rotherham 1874-1974.1974.

Listing NGR: SK4334993235