All Saints Church, Rotherham

Rotherham Minster
Rotherham Minster
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Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Broad Church
Website	www.rotherhamminster.co.uk
History
Dedication	All Saints
Administration
Parish	Rotherham
Diocese	Sheffield
Province	York
Clergy
Canon(s)	David Bliss
Laity
Organist(s)	Philip Higgins

All Saints Church, Rotherham, also known as Rotherham Minster, stands in Church Street, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. Pevsner describes it as "one of the largest and stateliest churches in Yorkshire".^[1] On 19 October 1951 it was designated as a Grade I listed building.^[2]

History, architecture and furnishings

The origins of the church are fourteenth century and the chancel is of that date.^[2] The tower is early fifteenth century and contains a peal of 12 bells. Ten were cast in 1924 and two added in 1986 <Dove's Guide to the Church Bells of England>. The remainder of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, or of the substantial restoration by George Gilbert Scott in 1873-5.^[2] The style is Perpendicular.^[1]

The Interior of Rotherham Parish Church by William Cowen in 1848

The chancel chapel was built in 1480 by Thomas Rotherham, the locally born Archbishop of Lincoln, who subsequently endowed the College of Jesus, attached to the church, on his elevation to the Archbishopric of York.^[1]

Alec Clifton-Taylor includes it in his list of "best" English parish churches^[3] and describes it as "the glory of Rotherham".^[4]

Organ

A specification of the 3 manual 1777 John Snetzler organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.^[5]

Notes

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1 2 3 The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: West Riding, page 418
1 2 3 Historic England, "Church of All Saints, Rotherham (1132733)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 27 June 2013
↑ Clifton-Taylor 1974, p. 259.
↑ Clifton-Taylor 1974, pp. 19–20.
↑ National Pipe Organ Register

References

Clifton-Taylor, Alec (1974), English Parish Churches as Work of Art, London: Batsford, ISBN 0 7134 2776 0
Pevsner, Nikolaus, The Buildings of England:Yorkshire:West Riding (1967) Penguin Books

Members of the Greater Churches Network

Province of Canterbury	Bath Abbey St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham St Botolph's Church, Boston St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield Christchurch Priory Holy Trinity Church, Coventry St Wulfram's Church, Grantham Great Malvern Priory Great Yarmouth Minster All Saints' Church, Hertford King's Lynn Minster St James' Church, Louth St Laurence's Church, Ludlow All Saints Church, Fulham, London All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames, London Christ Church, Spitalfields, London St Marylebone Parish Church, London St Martin-in-the-Fields, London St Peter Mancroft, Norwich Pershore Abbey Romsey Abbey St Andrew's Church, Rugby St Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon St Mary Magdalene, Taunton Sherborne Abbey Shrewsbury Abbey Tewkesbury Abbey Waltham Abbey Church Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick Wimborne Minster St Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton

Province of York	Beverley Minster Bolton Abbey Bridlington Priory St George's Minster, Doncaster Halifax Minster St Peter's Church, Harrogate Grimsby Minster Hexham Abbey Holy Trinity Church, Hull Kendal Parish Church Lancaster Priory Leeds Minster St Mary's Church, Nantwich Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent St Mary's Church, Nottingham Rotherham Minster Selby Abbey Sunderland Minster

Church in Wales	Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny St Giles' Church, Wrexham

Scottish Episcopal Church	Church of St John the Evangelist, Edinburgh

Coordinates: 53°25′52″N 1°21′25″W / 53.43102°N 1.35692°W / 53.43102; -1.35692

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