St Mary, Wombwell
St Mary, Wombwell
St Mary's is a Grade II parish church on Church Street (listed on Hough Lane), Wombwell, South Yorkshire, in the Diocese of Sheffield. The parish was created from Darfield.
- Location
- Wombwell, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Wombwell
- Address
- Church Street, Wombwell, Yorkshire, S73 0DQ
- Postcode
- S73 0DQ
- Built
- 1896-1914, several builds, on a medieval site
- Consecrated
- Nave 21 April 1898; chancel 1 February 1908; tower 31 May 1914
- Architect
- Hadfield and Garland of Sheffield
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Mary
- Diocese
- Sheffield
- Parish
- Wombwell St Mary
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Perpendicular Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Deeply coursed dressed sandstone with limestone and sandstone dressings; tile roof
- Grid reference
- SE 400 029
- Opening hours
- Please contact us to arrange a visit.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England records a church of 1896-1914 in several builds by Hadfield and Garland of Sheffield, in Perpendicular Gothic Revival. Fabric is deeply coursed dressed sandstone with contrasting limestone and sandstone dressings and a tile roof. The plan, described in ritual orientation, is a west tower with north porch, six-bay aisled nave, three-bay chancel with south vestry and two-storey north organ chamber.
The parish history states that Viscount Halifax laid the foundation stone on 21 December 1896. The nave was consecrated on 21 April 1898, the chancel on 1 February 1908, and the tower and porch on 31 May 1914, on the first visit of the new Bishop of Sheffield. The listing notes a twelfth-century scalloped capital reset in the nave west wall and a fifteenth-century piscina in the chancel, remains of the earlier medieval church. A simple pinnacled tower parapet was added about 1960; a ring of eight bells was cast in 1961. The church seats about 800. Internal reordering in the early 1990s moved the altar to the west end.