St Andrew's Church

St Andrew’s stands on High Street in Bolton upon Dearne, a village in South Yorkshire. The church is an active parish church of the Church of England and holds Grade I listed status. Its walls contain pre-Conquest Anglo-Saxon stonework alongside later Norman and medieval additions. The nave still shows long-and-short quoin stones and narrow round-headed windows from the Anglo-Saxon period. The Domesday Book of 1086 records a church and priest here under the name ‘Boletone’. The building’s layers tell a continuous story from the 11th century to the 19th. In the 12th century a north aisle and arcade were added, and the chancel arch rebuilt with chevron moulding. The 14th century brought a south aisle and Decorated Gothic windows. By the late 15th century a Perpendicular-style west tower and clerestory were completed. A 19th-century restoration repaired the timber roof and replaced seating. Inside, the nave arcade mixes 12th-century circular piers with scalloped capitals on the north side and 14th-century octagonal piers on the south. The font is a simple 12th-century stone bowl on a modern base. Wall monuments from the 17th and 18th centuries commemorate local families such as the Bingley and St Leger families. The exterior combines rough rubble masonry in the Saxon parts with dressed ashlar in the later medieval sections.