St. Mary's Church was constructed in 1885 with significant alterations in 1912. The vicarage and Sunday School are depicted on mapping by 1906. The church was probably constructed to provide welfare facilities for the workers in the adjacent terraced housing which was expanding eastwards from the centre of Doncaster. Prior to this, the area was agricultural. It consisted of thin strip fields consolidated over time from the furlongs of open fields. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.