All Saints, Darfield

All Saints is a Grade I parish church on Church Street, Darfield, South Yorkshire, in the Diocese of Sheffield, a largely medieval building with an eleventh- and twelfth-century west tower.

Overview

Historic England lists the church (1315015, Grade I, 14 October 1964). The listing records a C11 and C12 west tower with C15 upper stages, the rest largely C14 and C15, and a nineteenth-century restoration by Pritchett and Son of York. Norman work is irregular sandstone rubble; later work is ashlar, with lead roofs. The plan is a four-stage west tower, three-bay nave with aisles and south porch, two-bay chancel with north and south chapels continuous with the aisles, and a north vestry. The tower has a restored west doorway, a three-light Perpendicular west window, and an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles. The east window is Perpendicular, of five lights with panel tracery.

Wikipedia notes restorations in 1849 and 1905. The churchyard holds the grave of the Corn Law campaigner Ebenezer Elliott and monuments to the victims of the 1857 Lundhill Colliery explosion and the 1886 Houghton Main disaster. Between 1892 and 1934 the rector was Canon Alfred Sorby, whose High Court case on Ascension Day school attendance became known as the Darfield Judgement. A Saxon cross fragment is built into the south wall of the tower.

Further Information

• Historic England list entry 1315015
• All Saints Darfield
• Wikipedia: All Saints Church, Darfield