CROOKES CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND ATTACHED HALL AND RAILINGS

CROOKES CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND ATTACHED HALL AND RAILINGS, SPRINGVALE ROAD

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247397
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: CROOKES CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND ATTACHED HALL AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: CROOKES CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND ATTACHED HALL AND RAILINGS, SPRINGVALE ROAD

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2001-05-20
Reference:: IOE01/04005/13
Rights:: © Mrs Barbara A West. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247397
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: CROOKES CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND ATTACHED HALL AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: CROOKES CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND ATTACHED HALL AND RAILINGS, SPRINGVALE ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CROOKES CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND ATTACHED HALL AND RAILINGS, SPRINGVALE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 33040 87854

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK38NW SPRINGVALE ROAD 784-1/5/671 (North side) 28/06/73 Crookes Congregational Church and attached hall and railings

II

Congregational church, undergoing conversion to offices. Dated 1906. By WJ Hale. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings with gabled and octagonal pyramidal roof topped with an octagonal wooden lantern and leaded spire. 2 side wall stacks in the form of buttresses. Perpendicular Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, coped gables, battered square angle buttresses with flat caps, rising above the parapet. Octagonal plan with south porch and gabled eastern wing. East wing has a 3-light pointed arch window with the mullions carried above the parapet as buttresses. Between them, a datestone. Below, an apsidal projection, 2 storeys, with a flat-headed 3-light traceried window on each floor. On either side, similar fenestration. The main body has a 5-light pointed arch window with panel tracery on 6 sides, under a gable. Below 4 of them, 3 single flat-headed windows. Under the south-west window, a gabled porch with flanking buttresses and chamfered segmental pointed doorway with overlight and 3 doors. Adjoining hall, to north-west, has a gabled wing to right with a 3-light mullioned casement on each floor. To left, a square porch with flanking buttresses, similar to the south-west one. INTERIOR: has round-headed arcades with round columns and shallow dome. Panelled gallery. East side has traceried panelled dais and reading desk in front of organ case. 4 original pendant lights. Undergoing conversion to offices at time of survey. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, a coped boundary wall with wrought-iron railing to steps and landing. WJ Hale, 1862-1929, designed a number of noteworthy schools and Nonconformist churches in Sheffield between 1893 and 1929. Wesley Hall, Crookes, (qv) is of a similar design. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3304087854

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 456854
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.