Old Maltby

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Maltby

St. Bartholomew’s church is at the centre of the old agricultural village, which was founded by the Danes and takes advantage of Maltby Dike – which once powered three watermills – and good fertile arable land.

Historic buildings in the old village of Maltby

A handful of stone buildings, built of Magnesian limestone with traditional pantile roofs, are scattered around the old village and exposures of the limestone form features in the retaining walls that were built when the road was widened  - and cut into the rock - in the 1920's.

Outcrops of limestone incorporated into retaining walls

In these various walls, there is evidence of the currents that flowed in the shallow Zechstein Sea, with graded bedding and cross-bedding being highlighted as distinct banding, which varies from cream to grey in colour. Further examples of the Magnesian limestone can also been in the remains of the market cross, which stands on the junction of two roads that were important in mediaeval times, and a restored memorial to Dr William Crossley – a prominent citizen of Maltby.

The market cross and Crossley memorial

A little further from the village, the Wesleyan Methodist chapel is also built out of the local limestone, but the dressings are of highly laminated Carboniferous sandstone, which has been face bedded where used around the windows and for the inscribed pediment. The iron bearing minerals, which have been concentrated along the bedding planes in the sandstone, have been oxidised to produce a striking effect.

Permian limestone and Carboniferous sandstone