All Saints
Darfield, Yorkshire
This Grade I Norman church has some stones used in its construction which indicate an earlier Saxon church on this site.
The church was built about 1650 and was adjacent to Sir Edward Rodes’s home, ‘The Old Hall’, and used for worship by his family and tenants of his land.
Great Houghton, Yorkshire
Sir Edward served under Oliver Cromwell at the battle of Preston, and after the Restoration became High Sheriff of Yorkshire. It is said that Cromwell visited Sir Edward and was pleased at the simple design of his family chapel, the ‘Chapel of Ease’.
The church was renovated extensively in 2013 after suffering through the centuries exposed to the weather.
Darfield, Yorkshire
This Grade I Norman church has some stones used in its construction which indicate an earlier Saxon church on this site.
Great Houghton, Yorkshire
Great Houghton is part of the Barnsley Methodist Circuit.
Grimethorpe, Yorkshire
When it opened its doors in 1904 it was declared to be ‘a church built by miners for the miners’.