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This rural church contains extensive wall paintings that were hidden from view until a bomb dropped nearby in World War Two, disturbing the plaster, which was removed, revealing the medieval wall paintings.

Welcome, come and enjoy our lovely old church of St Michael situated in the village of Old Rossington near Doncaster.

Standing on a mound in the centre of the village our church is an unknown gem, here are intriguing masons marks, a 1498 incised slab, a 1595 brass and a medieval altar stone.

The Domesday Survey of 1086 records 'In Braduelle there is a church and a priest'.

As you round the corner you are in for a great surprise, over the south porch is a lovely, if weathered, panel of Our Lady of Pity, one of the most popular images in late medieval English iconography.

This small village church was built as a temporary structure in 1898 by the villagers and the local carpenter Richard Turner, standing on a concrete base with stones from Bardney Abbey in its foundations.

The church sits on a commanding hill and is visible from a considerable distance.

There has been a church on this site since the reign of Edward the Confessor (1042-1066) and it is the only one noted in the Domesday Book as being in the ‘vast and ancient territory of Hallamshire’.