2-982-472 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Doncaster Church, 1858. 'The cost of the edifice, which is essentially Gothic, even in its minutest details, will be little under £52,000, of which all but £1000 has been subscribed. The old church was destroyed by fire on the 28th February, 1853, and since September of that year the present edifice has been in progress. The total length of the new church is 108 feet within the walls, and the width sixty-five feet. The clear width of the nave between the columns is twenty-seven feet. The width at the transept is ninety-two feet. The top of the roof is seventy-three feet from the floor line, and the height of the tower, to the top of the pinnacles, is about 165 feet. The stone used is Steetly, from the quarries of the late Mr. Rutherford; except that used for the tracery of the principal windows, which is Ancaster, from the quarries of Mr. John Wilson, of Grantham...Mr. George Gilbert Scott was the architect'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.