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All Saints

All Saints

Rotherham

South Yorkshire

C14 chancel heightened in C16, early C15 tower, rest completed late C15 and early C16

Architectural Features

Unrestored south door within porch has angel corbels to crocketed hood.

North aisle: less restored and with well-carved hoodmoulds depicting shepherds and their flocks.

buttresses with gargoyles and pinnacles between each window.

Gargoyles flank clock on each face.

Four clerestorey windows each with three-Tudor-arched lights beneath pointed arch.

Buttresses flank transomed seven-light east window with carved busts to hoodmould stops

capitals with carved foliage and hidden faces beneath embattled band

Heavily-moulded crossing arches with carved capitals to the attached shafts.

Excellent C15 roof to nave with moulded members and carved bosses.

Early C16 roofs to chancel and south chapel.

Early C15 fan-vaulting to crossing.

SK4292 : Rotherham Minster: pulpit

Fittings : excellent octagonal pulpit of 1604 with C18 sounding board with cherubs and corona with dove.

SK4292 : Rotherham Minster: pulpit

© Basher Eyre

SK4292 : Rotherham Minster: font

Font in south aisle c1879 has spire cover.

SK4292 : Rotherham Minster: font

© Basher Eyre

C12 font in north aisle, weathered.

Excellent choir stalls with two misericords and figure-carved bench ends depicting the Annunciation

C15 canopied parclose screen with partitions south chapel from transept

another restored section in north chapel arcade (both probably from original rood screen).

Monuments : numerous wall monuments in south transept including that to Samuel Buck d. 1806, by Flaxman

Dresser tomb in north chapel with excellent brass to Robert Swift and Anne Many C17 and C18 brasses attached to piers of chancel and crossing.

Glass : east window by Clayton and Bell, designed by Scott.