WORSBROUGH, a chapelry in that part of the
parish of DARFIELD which is in the wapentake of
STAINCROSS, West riding of the county of YORK, 2
miles (S. by E.) from Barnesley, containing 1392 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of York, endowed with £200
private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £1000
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Rector
of Darfield. The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary,
is an elegant building, principally in the later style
of English architecture, with a low tower surmounted
by a spire. A free school here is endowed with an an
nual pension of £4. 15. from the Crown, an annuity
of £13. 6. 8. bequeathed by John Rayney, in 1631,
and a house and land let for £13 per annum: the
classics were formerly taught, but for the last fifty
years only an English education has been given to
about thirty boys. A Sunday school was established,
in 1818, by Anna Shaw, who bequeathed £20 towards
its support.