St Winifred, Stainton

St Winifred is a Grade II* parish church on School Lane in Stainton, near Doncaster in South Yorkshire, in the Diocese of Sheffield.

Overview

Historic England records a church of the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries with nineteenth-century restoration, of rubble magnesian limestone under red tile roofs. The plan is a west tower, three-bay nave with south porch and a separately roofed two-bay south chapel, and a narrower two-bay chancel. The Perpendicular tower has three stages, a chamfered plinth, diagonal buttresses flanking a three-light west window, slit windows to a south-west stair turret, two-light pointed belfry openings, and an embattled ashlar parapet with eight crocketed pinnacles.

The late fourteenth-century south chapel, known as the Holm Choir and formerly belonging to Holm Hall, has a square-headed south window of ogee lights. The listing and parish accounts note a Norman chancel arch and evidence of Norman windows. A lead-lined octagonal font dates from the seventeenth century. The south chapel window holds three fragments of medieval glass, including two fifteenth-century faces found buried in the churchyard. A general restoration in 1898 included a new roof and new windows on the north side of the nave.

Further Information

• Historic England list entry 1286289
• British Listed Buildings: Church of St Winifred