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Fantastic carved figures from Tudor times.

St John’s church is a wonderful small church in South Yorkshire, overlooking grand views of the Dearne Valley.

A superb late 11th century church with a stained glass window by Charles Kempe in the Saxon tower and a fine marble tomb of Sir Christopher Wray, Chief Justice of England during Elizabeth I's reign, with his wife and children.

St John's is a beautiful red brick church consecrated in 1899 and containing many stained glass windows and a fine pipe organ built by Thomas Pendlebury of Leigh.

The first view one has of the village is that of the tower of the greenstone church of St Margaret with its dominating red clock. Created in 1787 by horologist Edmund Howard, the long drop clock is truly a remarkable piece of engineering.

Wombwell, mentioned in the Doomsday Survey of 1086 as Wambella, increased its population dramatically in the 19th century with the development of coal mines and other industries.

A small Gothic Revival design of the turn of the 20th century, built for Anglican worship and acquired for Roman Catholic use in the 1970s.