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Listed buildings in Swinton, South Yorkshire 
Summary
Swinton, is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The town contains ten listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The listed buildings in the town and surrounding area consist of houses, a church and the remains of a chapel, a cross base, a milepost, a pottery kiln, and a former foundry.
Key edit
| Grade | Criteria[1] |
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| II* | Particularly important buildings of more than special interest |
| II | Buildings of national importance and special interest |
Buildings edit
| Name and location | Photograph | Date | Notes | Grade |
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| Remains of St Margaret's Chapel 53°29′21″N 1°19′12″W / 53.48929°N 1.31997°W |
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c. 1200 | The remains of the former Norman chapel have been moved and incorporated into the churchyard wall to the north of St Margaret's Church. They are in sandstone with some limestone, and consist of parts of a richly decorated doorway with traces of zig-zag carving, and the chancel arch.[2][3] | II |
| Cross base 53°29′23″N 1°19′19″W / 53.48971°N 1.32184°W |
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Medieval | The base of a market cross that has been re-sited in the churchyard of St Margaret's Church. The base is in magnesian limestone, and the plinth and shaft are in sandstone. The base is square with chamfered corners, and the shaft is octagonal.[4] | II |
| Swinton House 53°29′08″N 1°19′06″W / 53.48560°N 1.31847°W |
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c. 1756 | A house later used for other purposes, it is in sandstone, partly rendered, on a plinth, with quoins, a band, a moulded cornice forming a gutter, and a Welsh slate roof with coped gables. There are two storeys, five bays, and a triple rear wing. The central doorway, now blocked, has an architrave with a tripartite keystone, and a broken pediment on consoles carved with acanthus. The windows are sashes, and the window above the doorway has an architrave, a cornice and a decorative apron.[2][5] | II |
| 15 Fitzwilliam Street 53°29′12″N 1°19′07″W / 53.48668°N 1.31859°W |
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Mid to late 18th century | A house and a shop in sandstone, with quoins, and a Welsh slate roof with square-cut gable copings and kneelers. There are two storeys, three bays, and a parallel rear range. In the ground floor is an inserted shop window, and to its right are a doorway, an inserted casement window, another doorway, and a sash window. The upper floor contains a central blind window flanked by casements.[6] | II |
| Hawthorne Farmhouse 53°29′11″N 1°19′07″W / 53.48644°N 1.31859°W |
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1774 | The farmhouse is in sandstone with quoins, a floor band, an eaves cornice, and a tile roof with coped gables and kneelers. There are two storeys and an attic, three bays, and a rear wing on the left. The central doorway has an architrave, a fanlight, and a tripartite keystone, and the windows are casements.[7] | II |
| Swinton Hall 53°29′10″N 1°19′05″W / 53.48605°N 1.31815°W |
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c. 1800 | A large house, later divided, it is in sandstone, partly rendered, on a plinth, with a tile roof, hipped on the left, and with coped gables. There are two and three storeys, a double depth plan, and a former entrance front of seven bays. The windows are casements. The right return has five bays, and in the ground floor is a loggia with four Doric columns on a raised pavement. In the upper floor the windows are divided by pilasters, and above them is a cornice and twin gables.[8][9] | II |
| St Margaret's Church 53°29′21″N 1°19′13″W / 53.48912°N 1.32016°W |
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1815–17 | The oldest part of the church is the tower, the rest being rebuilt in 1897–99. The church is built in sandstone with red tile roofs, and consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel with a north vestry and a gabled south vestry, and a west tower. The tower has three stages, angle buttresses rising to pinnacles, a west doorway with a pointed head and hood moulds, string courses, a two-light west window, two-light bell openings with clock faces, and an embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles. The windows along the aisles are paired lancets, and the east window has five stepped lights.[2][10] | II |
| Rockingham Kiln 53°29′03″N 1°20′15″W / 53.48421°N 1.33751°W |
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Early 19th century (probable) | The kiln was part of the Rockingham Pottery, it is in red brick, partly rendered, and is about 17 metres (56 ft) high. It consists of a bottle-shaped oven housing a kiln, and at the top is a dentilled course under a capped apex. There are various openings, including doorways and windows, which are now blocked.[8][11] | II* |
| Milepost 53°28′18″N 1°18′31″W / 53.47166°N 1.30874°W |
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19th century | The milepost is on the southwest side of Wentworth Road (B6090 road) opposite St Thomas' Church. It consists of a sandstone pillar with cast iron overlay, a triangular section, and a rounded top. On the top is inscribed "BRAMPTON BIERLOW & HOOTON ROBERTS ROAD" and "SWINTON", and on the sides are the distances to Barnsley, Wentworth, Doncaster, Conisbrough, and Hooton Roberts.[12] | II |
| Former Queen's Foundry 53°29′29″N 1°18′09″W / 53.49128°N 1.30263°W |
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Late 19th century | Originally the offices and warehouse of a foundry and later used for other purposes, the building is in sandstone at the front, and brick at the rear, on a plinth, with quoins, a sill band, and a Welsh slate roof with coped gables and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys and 24 bays, with a gable over the middle three bays. In the centre is a segmental-arched wagon entrance with a quoined surround, impost blocks, and a keystone. Most of the windows are casements with round-arched heads, impost blocks and keystones. At the rear is an external staircase with an ornate cast iron balustrade.[8][13] | II |
References edit
Citations edit
- ^ Historic England
- ^ a b c Harman & Pevsner (2017), p. 652
- ^ Historic England & 1132779
- ^ Historic England & 1286645
- ^ Historic England & 1314576
- ^ Historic England & 1192414
- ^ Historic England & 1132780
- ^ a b c Harman & Pevsner (2017), p. 653
- ^ Historic England & 1192422
- ^ Historic England & 1314575
- ^ Historic England & 1314614
- ^ Historic England & 1286622
- ^ Historic England & 1192434
Sources edit
- Historic England, "Remains of Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene situated immediately to north of Church of St. Margaret, Swinton (1132779)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 January 2022
- Historic England, "Base of cross approximately 1 metre to south of tower of Church of St. Margaret, Swinton (1286645)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 19 January 2022
- Historic England, "Swinton House, Swinton (1314576)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 January 2022
- Historic England, "No. 15 Fitzwilliam Street, Swinton (1192414)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 January 2022
- Historic England, "Hawthorne Farmhouse, Swinton (1132780)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 January 2022
- Historic England, "Swinton Hall, Swinton (1192422)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 January 2022
- Historic England, "Church of St. Margaret, Swinton (1314575)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 January 2022
- Historic England, "Rockingham Kiln, Swinton (1314614)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 19 January 2022
- Historic England, "Milepost approximately 100 metres to north-west of junction with Highthorn Road, Swinton (1286622)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 January 2022
- Historic England, "Offices of Canning Town Glass, Swinton (1192434)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 January 2022
- Historic England, Listed Buildings, retrieved 14 January 2022
- Harman, Ruth; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2017), Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-22468-9