St John and St Mary Magdalene Church, Goldthorpe

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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

ferro-concrete building and is now a Grade II listed building
.

Commissioned by

St George's Chapel, Windsor.[2] Its strange Italian style is unique in this part of South Yorkshire and is distinctly odd for a Dearne Valley mining
village.

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

Heritage Lottery Fund
part-funding the repairs. The church was re-hallowed in June 2002.

Interior

Interior of Ss John and Mary Magdalene, Goldthorpe

The Church consists of a South West Tower, Porch, West Gallery, Nave, North and South Aisles and a

vestry
on the North side.

Viscount Halifax was a prominent

campanile.[4] The baldacchino canopy is supported by four black pillars with gilded capitals, under which there is a large Crucifix in black with burnished halo - a copy of a work by Donatello
.

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

Flemish.[6]

The church formerly had a

stained glass window was installed commemorating the village's coal mining heritage.[8]

Lady Chapel

There is a side-chapel dedicated to

St Mary on the south-east corner of the church. During the refurbishment of the church in 2002, two pictures which hung above the altar were discovered to be works by Sienese master, Sano di Pietro. Valued at about £300,000, these were removed to the safe keeping of York Minster.[9]

Current use

The church is joined in pastoral care with St Wilfrid's Church, Hickleton.

See also

References

  1. ^ Blagdon-Gamlen, P. E. (1973) The Church Travellers Directory. London: Church Literature Association; p. 73
  2. ^ Article on Alfred Nutt from St George's Windsor website
  3. ^ English Heritage, State of the Historic Environment Report 2002, Yorkshire
  4. ^ a b Architect's Report, Wiles and Maguire Ltd., June 2002
  5. ^ Gaskill, E. R., Goldthorpe Parish History. Dearne Local History Group, 1956.
  6. ^ N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Yorkshire:The West Riding, Harmondsworth, 1959, 2nd edn. 1967.
  7. ^ Records of St Michael's mission church, Highgate., Item Ref: DZ/MD/420/19, Doncaster Archives [1]
  8. ^ Article from South Yorkshire Times - Miners' Memorial Window
  9. Daily Telegraph about the two early Italian Renaissance paintings.[2]

External links

  • The Official Website for the Parish of Goldthorpe and Hickleton, South Yorkshire.
  • Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1151169)". National Heritage List for England.

53°32′08″N 1°18′07″W / 53.535600°N 1.301920°W / 53.535600; -1.301920

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