BAPTIST CHURCH AND ADJOINING SUNDAY SCHOOL

BAPTIST CHURCH AND ADJOINING SUNDAY SCHOOL, CEMETERY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247053
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: BAPTIST CHURCH AND ADJOINING SUNDAY SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: BAPTIST CHURCH AND ADJOINING SUNDAY SCHOOL, CEMETERY ROAD

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Date:: 2001-02-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247053
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: BAPTIST CHURCH AND ADJOINING SUNDAY SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: BAPTIST CHURCH AND ADJOINING SUNDAY SCHOOL, CEMETERY 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BAPTIST CHURCH AND ADJOINING SUNDAY SCHOOL, CEMETERY 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 34674 86227

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK38NW CEMETERY ROAD 784-1/5/157 (North West side) Baptist Church and adjoining Sunday school

II

Baptist Church and adjoining Sunday school and meeting rooms. 1858-59 and 1900, with mid and late C20 alterations. Red brick and coursed squared stone, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Neo-Norman style. EXTERIOR: plinth, quoins, coped gables. 2 storeys plus basement. Facing gable, to west, has machicolated first floor band and eaves. Central wheel window with voussoirs. Below, round-arched triple arcade with Corinthian columns, with mid C20 canopies in the openings. On either side, a square tower, 3 stages, topped with a slated octagonal spire and finial. Lower stage has a single light window with keystone, second stage has a round-arched double lancet with keystones. Broached octagonal bell stage has round-arched openings with keystones. Returns, 6 bays, have first floor band and machicolated eaves, and are divided into panels by pilaster strips. On the first floor, 6 pairs of round-arched windows. Below, towards the front, a similar pair of windows, then 5 larger segment-headed windows. Right return has basement, coursed squared stone, with a single storey gabled projection to left. To its right, 4 segment-headed 12-pane sashes. At the rear, gabled 2-storey schoolroom with 5 composite casements. INTERIOR: single space with deep moulded cornice and plaster panelled ceiling with central boss. Panelled gallery on 4 sides, with rounded corners to the front, and round cast-iron columns on each floor. At the front, plain opening with scroll brackets containing organ and choir gallery. Below, traceried round cornered wooden pulpit, 1920, with stairs with wrought-iron balustrades. Plain dais. On either side, a 4-panelled door. At the rear, doors to the entrance hall, refitted mid C20. Fittings include traceried panelled benches. Memorials include brass war memorial panel in wooden frame, 1920, and marble and slate tablet, 1895.

Listing NGR: SK3467486227

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 26 October 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 456201
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 26 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/249634
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27546

Legal

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