All Saints & St James the Greater, Silkstone
All Saints and St James the Greater, Silkstone
All Saints on High Street, Silkstone, South Yorkshire — also dedicated to St James the Greater — is a Grade I Perpendicular parish church, the ‘Minster of the Moors’, in the Diocese of Leeds.
- Location
- Silkstone, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Silkstone
- Address
- High Street, Silkstone, Yorkshire, S75 4JH
- Postcode
- S75 4JH
- Built
- C12 origin; remodelled later C15, completed 1495; chancel rebuilt 1852–58
- Architect
- Anthony Salvin (chancel, 1852–58)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- All Saints and James
- Diocese
- Leeds
- Parish
- Silkstone with Stainborough
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Perpendicular
- Materials
- Ashlar; lead chancel roof
- Grid reference
- SE 290 058
- Opening hours
- Normally open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays 10am to 4pm.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets in church
Overview
Historic England records a church of twelfth-century origin, remodelled in the later fifteenth century and completed in 1495, with the chancel rebuilt in 1852–58 and a general nineteenth-century restoration. It is ashlar, Perpendicular in style: a tall two-stage west tower, five-bay nave with lean-to aisles, south porch, and a three-bay chancel with aisle chapels. Aisle walls have flying buttresses in the form of angels, grotesques and beasts. Twelfth-century masonry survives in the chancel arch and north chapel arcade, remnants of a former crossing. Perpendicular screens, 1832–35 box pews, and the Wentworth tomb (Sir Thomas Wentworth, d.1675) are notable. Salvin rebuilt the chancel. Listed Grade I on 18 March 1968 (NHLE 1151740). The parish is Silkstone with Stainborough, in the Benefice of West Barnsley. OS grid SE 29086 05844.