Crescent Moon over Rotherham Minster

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Crescent Moon over Rotherham Minster
Crescent Moon over Rotherham Minster

The Parish Church of All Saints, Rotherham, is one of the finest medieval perpendicular churches in the North of England. The 188 feet tall spire topped with a gilded weather-vane has overlooked the town centre for over 500 years. Three churches have stood on this site - the Domesday Book of 1086 records Rotherham as a settlement of twelve households, with a mill, a church and a priest, meadows and woodland.

The Norman church, built in the 12th Century of Rotherham Red – a distinctive local sandstone from the Yorkshire Coal Measures - was decorated with Magnesium limestone from Conisborough and had a chancel, nave, transepts and a central tower. Norman remains include sections of the tower piers and carved cushion capitals from the nave pillars used as bases for the pillars in the present nave. The Norman font stands in the Jesus chapel.

For a time, the church was controlled by the abbeys of Rufford and Clairvaux, the Mother house of the Cistercian order. The building acquired its present form when the monks reordered the Norman church In the 14th and 15th Century in the Perpendicular style of architecture.

The chancel roof built about 1512 features the Union or Tudor Rose. Painted and gilded bosses show the Holy Monogram IHS, with symbols of patrons and benefactors.
Monuments, in stone and latten, a copper or brass alloy sheet, celebrate Rotherham families including the Howards of Effingham. The Earl of Effingham was Lay rector of the Parish.

A letter of 1409 from Archbishop Bowet allowed the vicar of Rotherham to sell indulgences to raise the funds to repair the tower. The letter refers to the Campanile, suggesting that a bell or bells were already installed.

The groined vaulting under the tower is one of the earliest in England. Ten of the twelve bells in the tower were recast and rehung in the 1920s. The last two were installed in 1986. The heaviest bell, the Tenor, weighs in at 34 cwt (hundredweight), roughly one and three-quarter tons.

The organ was built and installed in 1777 by Johann Snetzler, one of the foremost organ builders of his day.

Ref. rotherhamminster.co.uk

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