---
title: "Our Lady & St James, Worsbrough"
description: "Located in Worsbrough, Yorkshire. Built 1902; restored for Catholic use 1973–76. Diocese of Hallam. Grade II. Gothic Revival style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Catholic Church","Yorkshire","Worsbrough","Grade II","Gothic Revival","T H and F Healey"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/our-lady-st-james-worsbrough"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T03:08:34.090Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T15:59:36.900Z"
location: "Worsbrough, Yorkshire"
country: "England"
county: "Yorkshire"
town: "Worsbrough"
address: "West Street, Worsbrough, Yorkshire, S70 5DJ"
postcode: "S70 5DJ"
built: "1902; restored for Catholic use 1973–76"
consecrated: "15 June 1976"
architect: "T H and F Healey of Bradford"
denomination: "Catholic Church"
dedications: ["Mary","James"]
diocese: "Hallam"
grade: "II"
style: "Gothic Revival"
materials: "Thinly coursed sandstone with graduated Westmorland slate roof"
website: "http://catholicbarnsley.co.uk/"
openingHours: "The church is open one hour before services and for half an hour afterwards. If you want to arrange a visit at another time please contact us."
parish: "Our Lady and St James, Worsbrough"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1151051"
gridReference: "SE 354 035"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets in church"
---

# Our Lady & St James, Worsbrough

Our Lady and St James is a Grade II Roman Catholic church on West Street in Worsbrough Bridge, near Barnsley, in the Diocese of Hallam. It was built as an Anglican mission church and later acquired for Catholic worship.

## Overview

Historic England records a church of 1902 by T. H. and F. Healey of Bradford, with S. J. Cooper as patron, in thinly coursed sandstone with a graduated Westmorland slate roof. The plan has a three-bay nave with south porch, a narrower chancel, a south tower in the angle with the nave, and an adjoining east vestry. The tower has a south priest’s door, an ashlar belfry stage with semi-octagonal corner piers and two-light trefoiled openings, and a short lead-covered spire with corner spirelets. The interior is a simple Gothic Revival space with a marble font and wall paintings above the chancel arch.

The National Churches Trust notes that the building began as the Anglican Mission of St James, fell into disuse in the 1960s, and was purchased by the Catholic parish of Our Lady, Worsbrough, in 1973 after years of mining subsidence and vandalism. It reopened as Our Lady and St James on 15 June 1976, when Bishop Moverley consecrated the new granite altar. The combined dedication joins the old Anglican and new Catholic titles.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1151051](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1151051)
- [British Listed Buildings: Church of Our Lady and St James, Worsbrough](https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101151051-church-of-our-lady-and-st-james-worsbrough-ward)
- [Catholic Barnsley](http://catholicbarnsley.co.uk/)