St Helen

Rubble, partly laid in herringbone fashion, red tile roofs.

Tower: C13, 3 stages

C15 top with string course and gargoyles beneath embattled ashlar parapet with 8 crocketed pinnacles.

Plain ashlar C14/C15 porch has pointed-arched door with hoodmould and coped gable to ribbed ashlar roof

altered Saxon south door within has renewed jambs and segmental head beneath round arch.

C19 gabled north vestry with door to east and reused C15/C16 north window of 2 quinquefoiled lights.

Interior: tower arch has C12 semicircular responds to a C13 pointed arch, the inner order chamfered.

Round font bowl (possibly C12) set on later octagonal shaft.

Late medieval rood screen, restored in 1881, is of 2 : 2 : 2 divisions with ogee arches subdivided by pendants, vaulted canopy and cornice with carved vine trail and cresting.

Monuments: numerous medieval cross slabs

in the nave a slab with brass of knight in armour thought to be Thomas Gascoigne , to its north a slab to William Adam with rhymned inscription in old English.

P. F. Ryder, Saxon churches in South Yorkshire, County Archaeology Monograph No.2, 1982, pp35-43.