Barnsley

Barnsley

Barnsley

St Edward the Confessor

Edward, King and Confessor, is the Patron Saint of the church which was created and endowed by Edward George Lancaster JP of Keresforth Corridor. The full price tag of creating the church and the old vicarage arrived to some £30,000 and was compensated by Mr Lancaster.

It is reported that he vowed to build and endow the church even though in a subterranean chapel of Milan Cathedral in which the overall body of Carlo Borromeo is preserved A further tale is that he experienced a vision on the banking institutions of the river Nile. Regardless of what his genuine reason he built the eyesight occur true. Considering the fact that then generations have worshipped listed here as we do now.

The Church is designed in the style of the Early English Time period and is cruciform in form with a sq. tower surmounted by a small spire. The Girl Chapel on a single side and the organ on the other. At the west conclude there are two porches, north and south, a baptistry was planned to be in between them at the rear but was in no way built.

The nave is 70ft (21.3 metres) very long and 30ft (9.1 metres ) vast with north and south aisles, the overall width currently being 46ft (14 metres). The top of the nave from floor to ceiling is 44ft (13.4 metres), and to the ridge 54ft (16.4 metres). The chancel is 40ft (12.2 metres) in duration and 20ft (6.1 metres ) in width and the height of the ceiling is 34ft (10.4 metres).

Patron of the Dwelling right up until his demise at the age of 94 on 31st Oct 1934, Edward Lancaster is buried in the only grave in the churchyard, beneath the East Window. The stained glass in the East and West Windows was inserted in his memory in 1936.

There are many notable options of the church, all of which are deserving of nearer inspection, and contain the polished granite columns in the nave, the mosaic flooring in the sanctuary and the chancel, the reredos, pulpit and font, some wonderful woodwork and stained glass and the huge timbered roof.

The a few, guide organ dating from 1904 is a high-quality. case in point of the perform of Leeds organ builder James Binns.

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Posted by Andrew Stopford on 2018-07-08 09:12:38

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