St John and St Mary Magdalene Church, Goldthorpe
The Church of St John the Evangelist and St Mary Magdalene | |
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Priest(s) | Fr C. R. Schaefer SSC |
St John the Evangelist and St Mary Magdalene Church is a parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Sheffield in Goldthorpe, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.
Background
The Church of St John the Evangelist and St Mary Magdalene, in
Commissioned by
It was the first large church in England to be built almost entirely in reinforced concrete, including all the principal internal furnishings within the church (which are of finely-finished concrete), the
Interior
The Church consists of a South West Tower, Porch, West Gallery, Nave, North and South Aisles and a
Viscount Halifax was a prominent
The tower is a Venetian-styled campanile, above which there is a four faced clock, each face six feet in diameter.[4] To the clock were attached bar-bell chimes which could be rung independently of the mechanism, but these fell into disuse and were removed in the 1950s.[5]
According to
The church formerly had a
Lady Chapel
There is a side-chapel dedicated to
Current use
The church is joined in pastoral care with St Wilfrid's Church, Hickleton.
See also
References
- ^ Blagdon-Gamlen, P. E. (1973) The Church Travellers Directory. London: Church Literature Association; p. 73
- ^ Article on Alfred Nutt from St George's Windsor website
- ^ English Heritage, State of the Historic Environment Report 2002, Yorkshire
- ^ a b Architect's Report, Wiles and Maguire Ltd., June 2002
- ^ Gaskill, E. R., Goldthorpe Parish History. Dearne Local History Group, 1956.
- ^ N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Yorkshire:The West Riding, Harmondsworth, 1959, 2nd edn. 1967.
- ^ Records of St Michael's mission church, Highgate., Item Ref: DZ/MD/420/19, Doncaster Archives [1]
- ^ Article from South Yorkshire Times - Miners' Memorial Window
- Daily Telegraph about the two early Italian Renaissance paintings.[2]