Description

WARMSWORTH LOW ROAD EAST
SE50SW (north side)

1/84 Bell tower at junction
5.6.68 with Glebe Street
(formerly listed as
Bell Tower).

GV II

Bell tower. Probably C16 with C20 cupola. Rubble magnesian limestone with
wooden cupola. 2 storeys, single cell. Square lower storey with quoins and
boarded door in south side beneath thin stone lintel. Upper storey becomes
octagonal at half-pyramidal corner stops and is capped by band and offset
courses forming the cupola base. Cupola is open-sided, arcaded, and has
boarded roof with spike finial. Served to call the congregation to the old
parish church situated at a distance from the village centre. The tower may
be of medieval origin or be contemporary with the earlier Warmsworth Hall
situated nearby on site of present hall.
D. Hey, The Making of South Yorkshire, 1979, p.150 (plate).

Listing NGR: SE5478300593

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26444346

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)