Church

St Peter & St Paul, Todwick

St Peter & St Paul, Todwick

St Peter and St Paul is the Grade II* parish church of Todwick, South Yorkshire, an eleventh-century nave church with a fourteenth-century chancel and fifteenth-century west tower, in the Diocese of Sheffield.

Location
Todwick, Yorkshire
Country
England
County
Yorkshire
City / town
Todwick
Address
Lindleys Croft, Todwick, Yorkshire, S26 1HN
Postcode
S26 1HN
Built
11th-century nave; 14th-century chancel; 15th-century tower; 18th and 19th century alterations
Denomination
Church of England
Dedication
Peter and Paul
Diocese
Sheffield
Parish
Todwick
Grade
II*
Style
Norman; Perpendicular tower
Materials
Rubble sandstone nave; ashlar and coursed squared limestone; lead and graduated slate roofs
Grid reference
SK 497 841
Opening hours
The church is open everyday.
Access
Ramp or level access available on request. Accessible toilets nearby

Overview

Historic England dates an eleventh-century nave with later porch and windows, a chancel of fourteenth-century origin, a fifteenth-century tower, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century alterations. The nave is rubble sandstone; the rest ashlar and coursed squared limestone, with lead and slate roofs. The three-stage Perpendicular tower has diagonal buttresses, a three-light west window, louvred belfry openings and an embattled parapet with eight crocketed pinnacles. A blocked eleventh-century north door survives. The gabled south porch has a round-arched doorway and a cuboidal apex sundial; the inner doorway is also round-headed (Norman). The porch roof retains fourteenth-century moulded cambered tie-beams, one carved with a scallop shell.

The unrestored fourteenth-century three-light east window has intersecting glazing bars. The church was listed Grade II* on 29 July 1986 (NHLE 1151903).

Further Information