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All Saints

All Saints

Silkstone

South Yorkshire

C12 in origin, remodelled later C15, and completed 1495, chancel rebuilt 1852-8, general C19 restoration.

Architectural Features

Crenellated parapets with corner gargoyles and pinnacles.

The aisle walls have low buttresses which rise as square pinnacles and are connected back to the wall by flying buttresses in the form of angels, grotesque figures and beasts.

Chancel arch and north chapel arcade on semi-circular responds of C12 date and survive from the crossing which supported a central tower.

Two medieval shields in east window of south chapel.

Tomb in south chapel to Sir Thomas Wentworth d. 1675 and his wife: white marble recumbent effigies the former in armour, on a large sarcophagus with relief trophies to sides.

The memorial behind has colonnettes supporting an open segmental pediment with shield and urns.

Sandstone cartouche in chancel to John Phipps of Pule Hill d. 1718 with winged angels at top corners and skull and cross bones at bottom corners.

N Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1967 P F Ryder, Saxon Churches in South Yorkshire, for the South Yorkshire Archaeological Service, 1982.