The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Botolph (formerly)
Parish church
The medieval church would have dominated the view from the river, as it stands above a slope running down towards the deeply-entrenched Aire. Only the parish church and town hall remain to show that this end of town was once the centre. Redevelopment to increase the modern housing has shifted the commercial centre westwards. Both church and town hall have old quarries adjacent; the stone is a flaggy Magnesian limestone and not a freestone.
The church has a W tower, nave with porch, and chancel with vestry and organ chamber. All surfaces have been rendered and plastered inside, and on much of the exterior except for the tower.
No Romanesque sculpture, but the interior splay of a simple round-headed window is seen from inside in the W wall of the nave.