Church Of St Cuthbert

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SK39SE BARNSLEY ROAD 784-1/2/65 (East side) 28/06/73 Church of St Cuthbert

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Parish church. 1901-1904. By John Dodsley Webster & Son. Tower 1959. Squared dressed stone with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof with single side wall ashlar stack. Gothic Revival style. PLAN: nave with clerestory and aisles, chancel, double gabled transepts, south-west porch, organ chamber, vestry, north-west tower. EXTERIOR: plinth, string courses, buttresses, coped gables with kneelers and crosses. Windows are untraceried, mainly with hoodmoulds. 2 bay chancel has a graduated 5-light window at the east end, blank north side and to south, 2 single lancets. Nave clerestory has 10 pairs of lancets on each side. West end has 2 lancets and above, a graduated 4-light window with cusped heads and above again, a cusped oval window. 3 bay aisles have 2 graduated 3 lancet windows, and south aisle has a 2-light window in west end, and 2 lancet windows to east. North aisle has tower and under-tower porch in western bay. South aisle has gabled porch with double chamfered doorway in the equivalent position. Double gabled transepts have each 2 graduated 3-light windows. North transept has cove moulded doorway to west. 2 storey parapeted vestry, to south-east, has a door and window and above, 2 windows. East side has 2 windows on each floor. Parapeted organ chamber, to north-east, has a single window to north and east. Square parapeted tower, 3 stages, has four centred arched doorways to east and west, with wrought-iron gates. Above, a plain window and above again, a clock. To north, a 4-centred arched door with external stair. Bell stage has a rebated 2-light opening on each side. INTERIOR has double chamfered chancel arch with ringed shaft imposts and hoodmould, and coped screen wall. Chancel has string course and wagon roof with arch braces and corbels. North side has double chamfered arch containing organ and south side has door with 2 windows above. Nave has 5 bay arcades with double chamfered arches and round piers, double purlin principal rafter roof with arch braces and wall shafts. Aisles have lean-to roofs with struts, and doorways at their western ends. North aisle has double chamfered arch at east end. Open transepts form Lady Chapel (north) and Chapel of Chivalry (south). Fittings include octagonal ashlar font with carved niches and alabaster shafts. Traceried panelled octagonal wooden pulpit on stone base, stalls with carved ends, and brass eagle lectern dated 1879. Chancel east end has memorial window, 1918. Nave west end, north and south aisles have stained glass windows by AJ Davies of Bromsgrove, c1936. South aisle has a memorial east window, 1917, by Kayll & Reed of Sheffield, and a memorial window, 1947. Memorials include a pedimented wooden war memorial tablet, c1918.

Listing NGR: SK3655890254