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All Saints

All Saints

Darfield

South Yorkshire

C12 west tower with C15 upper stages, rest largely C14 and C15, C19 restoration by Pritchett and Son of York.

Architectural Features

Norman work in irregular sandstone rubble, later work ashlar, lead roofs.

keel-moulded hoodmoulds with carved-head stops.

Part of a Saxon cross is built into the south wall of the tower.

North aisle: two C14 recesses, one moulded the other ogee- headed.

Also 2 alabaster effigies on a chest tomb decorated with shields in circles and quatrefoils: knight with head on uncrested helm, lady to his left with head on tasselled cushion flanked by angels.

Thought to be Sir John Bosvile and his wife Anne c1400-1410 (Routh).

C17 box pews with knob finials

Font: Perpendicular, octagonal with heavy Jacobean oak cover.

In the north chapel a low memorial surrounded by shields, to Katherin Godfrey d1658.

P. E. Routh, Medieval Effigial Alabaster Tombs in Yorkshire, 1976, p31-33.