Wadsley Parish Church

Wadsley Parish Church is a parish church dating from 1833-34, designed by Joseph Potter. It was restored following a fire in 1885, and a vestry was added in 1897. The church is constructed of ashlar with slate roofs and is in the Gothic Revival style.

The building comprises a west tower with a spire, a nave with aisles, a chancel, a south-east porch, and a north-east vestry. External features include a chamfered plinth, angle buttresses, and coped parapets. The short chancel has blank sides, and the east end features a graduated triple lancet window above which is a central oval window with a hoodmould. The 6-bay buttressed aisles have single lancets in each bay, with a gabled figure niche in the east end of the south aisle and a similar niche with a squat lancet below it in the north aisle.

The gabled south-east porch has a chamfered pointed doorway and a single lancet in each side. The three-stage west tower has angle buttresses up to the second stage, string courses, a traceried corbel table, and an octagonal broach spire with a single tier of lucarnes. The west side has a chamfered doorway with a bracket lamp above, and a gabled niche above it. Single lancets are positioned on the north and south sides. The second stage contains a clock to the west and single lancets to the north and south. The bell stage has single lancet openings on each side.

The parapeted, flat-roofed north-east vestry has two 2-light mullioned windows to the north and a square, chamfered doorway with a hoodmould to the east.

The interior features a double-chamfered chancel arch with conical imposts. The chancel has a principal rafter roof and patterned stained glass. The 6-bay nave possesses 4-centred arched arcades with hoodmoulds and stops, supported by fluted octagonal iron piers with moulded capitals and bases. A wooden gallery with a traceried front panel is positioned on three sides. The principal rafter roof includes arch braces and short wooden wall shafts. The aisles have similar lean-to roofs. A stained glass window from 1866 is located in the south aisle. The tower porch and vestibule have half-glazed doors and two plain stone winder stairs.

Fittings include a wooden reredos in the Decorated style, traceried panelled benches dating from the 19th century, a 20th-century pulpit and reading desk, and 19th-century wall memorials. There is also a wooden war memorial tablet with a marble panel, dating from approximately 1920.