History, Architecture and Furnishings
The origins of the church are fourteenth century and the chancel is of that date. The tower is early fifteenth century. The remainder of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, or of the substantial restoration by George Gilbert Scott in 1873-5. The style is Perpendicular.
The chancel chapel was built in 1480 by Thomas Rotherham, Archbishop of Lincoln, who subsequently endowed the College of Jesus, attached to the church, on his elevation to the Archbishopric of York.
Alec Clifton-Taylor includes it in his list of "best" English parish churches and describes it as "the glory of Rotherham".
A specification of the John Snetzler organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.
Read more about this topic: All Saints Church, Rotherham
Famous quotes containing the word architecture:
“Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider, and should be wise in season and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his days and spoil him for his proper work.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)