STAININGTON, a chapelry in the parish of ECCLESFIELD, northern division of the wapentake of STRAFFORTH-and-TICKHILL, West riding of the county of YORK, 4 miles (W. by N.) from Sheffield. The chapel, erected under the late act for promoting the building of additional churches, &c., was finished in November 1829, at an expense of £260. 19. 3., defrayed by the parliamentary commissioners; it is in the later style of English architecture, with a cupola, and contains seven hundred and twenty-two sittings, of which three hundred and sixty-six are free.