Church of All Saints, South Kirby

Heritage listing

Details SOUTH KIRBY BARNSLEY ROAD SE41SE (south side) 6/75 Church of All Saints 25.3.1968 - I Parish church. C13 and C15; restored. Dressed magnesian limestone, lead- clad roofs. West tower, nave with north and south aisles, chancel with north and south chapels. Externally, all Perpendicular. Four-stage tower has diagonal buttresses with crocketed finials on the offsets, weathered plinth, and dripbands on 4 levels; restored west doorway has set-in shafts and 2 orders of moulding, nail-head ornament on the head, hollow-moulded hoodmould with angel stops (worn) and ogee cresting; 4-centred arched west window (boarded at time of survey, 1987), small looplight to 3rd stage, tall transomed 3-light belfry windows with restored tracery and hoodmoulds with figured stops, gargoyles in the band above, and embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles at the corners and in the centre of each side; clock faces in north and south sides of 3rd stage. Buttressed 3-bay south aisle; 2-storey porch to 1st bay, with moulded plinth and diagonal buttresses, with moulded offsets, very prominent corner gargoyles and crocketed pinnacles, 2- centred arched doorway with deep moulded surround including a slender shaft, hoodmould with large figured stops (worn); above the doorway, a row of 5 carved shields (worn), then a restored niche with seated statue, cusped ogee canopy and crocketed finial, oversailing parapet with ridged coping; a small. 2-light window in each side wall; inner doorway with deeply moulded surround and hoodmould with large figured stops (worn). To the right, aisle has 2 large restored 4-centred arched 3-light windows with hollow-moulded reveals and hoodmoulds with block stops, buttresses finished with very prominent gargoyles and crocketed diagonal pinnacles, and a plain parapet.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.