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This is a church for those who enjoy an architectural jigsaw. The exterior gives a clue to the complexity of the game.

There has been a Christian church on this site since at least 633 AD, as recorded by the Veneral Bede who mentioned that there was a church and a priest during the time of the Battle of Hatfield in that same year.

In 1722 a fine early Georgian church was erected to the design of Thomas Eayre of Kettering (1691-1757), surveyor, clock maker, and bell founder (the bells here are by him as well).

The interior of the church is 13th century at its best, with a wooden roof in imitation of stone vaulting and one of the best collections of Green Men in England.

With its pale walls and red tiled roof, its Tuscan west front and its charming little cupola, this tiny parish church could almost have been transplanted from some Greek or Italian village.

Built of local red brick with stone banding from the previous church on the same spot, St Stephen includes a beautiful rounded apse with stained glass windows at the east end.

When it opened its doors in 1904 it was declared to be ‘a church built by miners for the miners’.

Close to the River Bain, a church has been on this site for about 900 years.

The only church in England with a stained glass window dedicated to St Cornelius.

St Joseph’s was founded as a Mission from nearby Cobridge in 1895 and in 1925 work started on the present church designed in the north Italian Lombardic or Romanesque style by the young architect JS Brocklesby.

Please visit the historic church of St John the Baptist, located in the Pennine market town of Penistone, situated along the Trans Pennine trail its accessibility attracts a wealth of walkers and riders alike each year.