---
title: "St Winifred, Stainton"
description: "Located in Stainton, Yorkshire. Built C12, C13, C14 and C15; C19 restoration. Diocese of Sheffield. Grade II*. Norman and Perpendicular style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Yorkshire","Stainton","Grade II*","Norman","Perpendicular","Diocese of Sheffield"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-winifred-stainton"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T02:46:44.557Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-09T12:30:02.233Z"
location: "Stainton, Yorkshire"
country: "England"
county: "Yorkshire"
town: "Stainton"
address: "School Lane, Stainton, Yorkshire, S66 7QX"
postcode: "S66 7QX"
built: "C12, C13, C14 and C15; C19 restoration"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Winifred"]
diocese: "Sheffield"
grade: "II*"
style: "Norman and Perpendicular"
materials: "Rubble magnesian limestone; red tile roofs"
website: "http://www.staintonvillage.net/stwinifridschurch.htm"
openingHours: "Details of keyholders are in the church porch."
parish: "Stainton St Winifred"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1286289"
gridReference: "SK 555 936"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby"
---

# 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](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1286289)
- [British Listed Buildings: Church of St Winifred](https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101286289-church-of-st-winifred-stainton)