page_title: Handsworth, South Yorkshire
section_title: St Mary's Church
hierarchical_section_title: Handsworth, South Yorkshire / History / St Mary's Church
caption_attribution_description: Handsworth (oeste) foto: Wikityke
context_page_description: Handsworth is a suburb of south eastern Sheffield, in South Yorkshire, England. It covers an area of approximately 5 square miles, and has a population of approximately 15,000. It has five schools, four churches, a variety of small shops, a large supermarket, and a range of commercial and light industrial businesses. The area is signposted from M1 Junction 31.
  Some of the older residents of Handsworth still refer to it as "the village". Politically, Handsworth is part of the Woodhouse ward in the Sheffield South East parliamentary constituency.
context_section_description: St Mary's was built in about 1170. It was founded by the Norman lord William de Lovetot, or his father Richard, and the foundations were planned by William Paynel. (The church is not to be confused with St Mary's Church, Handsworth, in Birmingham.)
  Close to St Mary's Church is the Cross Keys Inn, a very old building that has not always been a public house. It was originally built in the mid 13th century as a Church House for the chaplains and lay clerks attached to St Mary's.
  Little of the Tudor rectory remains today. Handsworth's parish registers, recording all baptisms, marriages and burials which took place in the parish of St Mary's, date back to 1558, the year that Queen Elizabeth I ascended the throne.
  St Mary's Parish Centre holds displays of artefacts, documents, records, photographs and maps relating to Handsworth and its history.
caption: Handsworth, looking west
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