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Parish church
The church is largely the product of 19thc. rebuilding. The chancel and widened south aisle was rebuilt by Thomas William Atkinson in 1829 (Butler 2007, 143). What remained of the old church was restored in 1875-1880 by Bodley and Garner. The two-stage perpendicular west tower is 15thc., though the three-light west window has been renewed. The north wall incorporates original 15thc. work (perpendicular aisle windows and mutilated image niche). Pevsner describes the rubble-walled north chapel as late 13thc. and 13thc. material also survives in the north nave arcade (not the south arcade as Pevsner claims).
Church
Skelmanthorpe is a large village 7 miles SE of Huddersfield in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire. The present church stands on the western edge of the village and was built by Bodley and Garner in 1894-95. It has a chancel with a S vestry, and a 5-bay nave with aisles. The S aisle extends the entire length of the nave but the N aisle only reaches the 4th bay; the W bay having a gabled porch into the nave. There is no tower but a bell-cote over the E gable of the nave. The only Romanesque fitting is a font brought here in 1904, and said to have been come, like the Cawthorne font, from Cannon Hall (Collingwood, 239). It was thought to have originated in High Hoyland church and to have served for some time as a cattle trough before it was installed here (Coatsworth, 277).