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All Saints

All Saints

Cawthorne

South Yorkshire

C13, C15 and 1875-80 by Bodley and Garner.

Architectural Features

The C15 Perpendicular tower of two tall stages was diagonal buttresses, west door, restored Perpendicular west window of 3 lights and 2-over-2-light bell chamber openings.

Restored crenellated parapet with gargoyles and tall corner pinnacles.

Two small lancets and a small arched doorway to late C13 north chapel, in the east wall of which is built an Cll cross head with a raised central figure and above this is a 3-light window with Y-tracery.

The east end is raised and the north chapel is separated from the chancel by the 2-bay C13 arcade.

Glass in one of the north chapel lancets, of 1867, is attributed to William Morris's firm (Pevsner).

The west window glass is Pre-Raphaelite in character, was designed by Roddam Spencer Stanhope and shows three figures of the Cardinal Virtues: Faith, Hope and Charity.

Several monuments in the north chapel to the Spencer family of Cannon Hall.

On the north wall a large memorial with 2 child supporters and a serpent issuing from the eye of a skull and a plaque reading "The sting of life is sin".

Over the south door of the south chapel is a memorial with 2 child supporters, to Richard Green and other members of the Green family 1723 and 1733, of Banks Hall.

There are 2 fonts the earliest, mid Cl1 (Ryder), is square with cable moulding at the edges.

The later font, C15, is octagonal and tapers downwards to sit on a pyramidal octagonal base.

The bowl has raised figures on each of its outer faces.

N Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1967 P F Ryder, Saxon Churches in South Yorkshire, South Yorkshire Archaeological Service, 1970 N Moxon, The Parish Church of All Saints, Cawthorne (Official Guide), 1970