St Mary, Handsworth
St Mary, Handsworth
St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II parish church on Handsworth Road in Handsworth, Sheffield, in the Diocese of Sheffield.
- Location
- Handsworth, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Handsworth
- Address
- Handsworth Road, Handsworth, Yorkshire, S13 9BZ
- Postcode
- S13 9BZ
- Built
- Late C12 tower and fabric; nave c.1472; north aisle 1833; south aisle 1904; restorations 1869 and 1880
- Architect
- M E Hadfield (restoration 1869); J B Mitchell-Withers (1880); John Dodsley Webster (south aisle 1904)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Mary
- Diocese
- Sheffield
- Parish
- St Mary the Virgin, Handsworth
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Gothic and Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Coursed squared stone and random rubble; slate and lead roofs; shaped plain tile roof to chancel
- Grid reference
- SK 410 862
- Opening hours
- Open for worship only, please contact us to arrange a visit.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England records a parish church and attached chest tombs with late-twelfth-century fabric, a north chapel (St Katherine) of about 1300, a nave of about 1472, a north aisle of 1833, and a south aisle, south porch and vestry of 1904 by John Dodsley Webster. The west tower is late twelfth-century, its upper stages rebuilt in 1825. Restorations followed in 1869 by M. E. Hadfield, 1880 by J. B. Mitchell-Withers, and 1934; a choir vestry was added in 1930. The fabric is coursed squared stone and random rubble, with slate and lead roofs and a shaped plain-tile roof to the chancel.
The chancel east end has three graduated single lancets. Below, a mid-nineteenth-century railed enclosure holds four chest tombs dated 1658, mid-nineteenth-century and 1889. The north chapel has a restored three-light east window with intersecting tracery. Wikipedia notes a ring of eight bells recast by John Taylor & Co in 1920 and a service bell of 1590 by Henry II Oldfield of Nottingham.