Church Of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed church located on High Street in Rawmarsh. It was rebuilt in 1839 by architect J. P. Pritchett, with the tower being reconstructed in 1869, which included elements from an 11th or 12th-century doorway. The chancel was extended, and an organ chamber and vestry were added around 1896 by Platts of Rotherham. The church is constructed from coursed, squared sandstone and features a Welsh slate roof. It has a west tower, a four-bay nave with aisles, and a lower single-bay apsidal chancel, along with a north organ chamber and a south vestry. The architectural style is Gothic revival, primarily in the Early English style.

The tower consists of three stages and features a heavily-restored Norman south door with three orders of colonnettes within a recess. There is a stair turret at the south-west corner, a two-light window on the second stage, and paired belfry openings with louvres and hoodmoulds. A clock is positioned beneath a quatrefoil-pierced parapet, and there are eight pinnacles.

The nave has buttresses at the angles and between the bays, with a chamfered band beneath coupled lancets and hoodmoulds that have carved-head stops. Each bay of the clerestorey contains groups of three lancets.

The chancel features angle buttresses and a vestry that is gabled and at right angles to the chancel, with a group of three lancets beneath a corbelled parapet topped with a gable cross. The east window consists of three lights above an apron with blind quatrefoils, and there is a corbel-table to the coped gable with a cross.

Inside, the nave arcades are double-chamfered with octagonal piers. The chancel arch has tripartite responds and carved capitals supporting a moulded arch. Decorative roof trusses feature cusped-headed panels. A brass dated 1616, located to the south of the chancel arch, commemorates John Darley of Kilnhurst and depicts his four sons and four daughters kneeling before his coffin. There is also a wall monument in the north aisle dated 1667, dedicated to Maria, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, featuring an inscribed plaque flanked by Corinthian columns beneath a broken pediment with a heraldic device. Additionally, there is a cross base and shaft beneath the tower, likely from the 12th century.