St Helen, Treeton
St Helen, Treeton
St Helen’s is a Grade I parish church on Front Street, Treeton, South Yorkshire, in the Diocese of Sheffield: a prominent medieval church recorded in Domesday Book’s territory of Hallamshire.
- Location
- Treeton, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Treeton
- Address
- Front Street, Treeton, Yorkshire, S60 5PZ
- Postcode
- S60 5PZ
- Built
- C12 north arcade and lower tower; late C13–early C14; C15 additions; restored 1869 and 1892
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Helen
- Diocese
- Sheffield
- Parish
- Treeton
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Gothic, with Norman arcade
- Materials
- Rubble and ashlar sandstone with limestone dressings; lead roofs; ashlar limestone upper tower
- Grid reference
- SK 432 877
- Opening hours
- The church is open regularly on the second Saturday in each month, when we would love to show you our beautiful church and offer refreshment.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England lists a church with a twelfth-century north arcade and lower tower, otherwise late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century, with fifteenth-century additions of south chapel, south porch, west bay of the nave, clerestory, present roofs and the upper stage of the tower. Restorations followed in 1869 and 1892; a nineteenth-century vestry was extended in 1973. Fabric is rubble and ashlar sandstone with limestone dressings and an ashlar limestone upper tower, under lead roofs. The plan is a three-stage south-west tower, three-bay nave with two-bay aisles, south porch and north-west vestry, and a three-bay chancel with south chapel.
Wikipedia notes a church here by the twelfth century, possibly incorporating earlier work, and a Domesday mention of a church at Treeton. The Perpendicular upper tower has transomed two-light belfry openings, an embattled parapet and crocketed pinnacles; a clock face is on the east side. Six bells hang in the tower, three installed in 1892. The church is a landmark visible from all directions around the former mining village.