Wadsley Parish Church forms a coherent group along with the vicarage, old school and almshouses. The church was constructed in 1833 and restored after a fire in 1885. The school was added in 1838 and the almshouses in 1845. All the buildings are listed. A graveyard exists to the north of the church though some burials are very close to the church (Bell 2002). The church fronts onto Worral Road which is likely to have formed one side of the village green of medieval Wadsley. Prior to the building of the church the area probably consisted of strip fields as shown surrounding the church on the 1st edition OS map of 1855. The strip fields were probably enclosed from the medieval open fields of Wadsley. Although the polygon has been largely unchanged for over 150 years, legibility of the earlier character types is zero.