CHURCH OF ST GEORGE

CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, ST GEORGES TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247180
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, ST GEORGES TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247180
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, ST GEORGES TERRACE

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:: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, ST GEORGES TERRACE

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 34640 87334

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK3487SE ST GEORGE'S TERRACE 784-1/23/676 (East side) 28/06/73 Church of St George

GV II

Church, now lecture theatre and student accommodation. 1821-25. By Hurst and Woodhead. Ashlar. Roofs not visible. Perpendicular Revival style. PLAN: sanctuary, north-east porches, nave with clerestory, aisles, south porch, west tower, west porches. Pointed arch window throughout. EXTERIOR: plinth, buttresses, eaves band, crenellated parapets and gables, crocketed pinnacles. Windows are lancets with panel tracery and hoodmoulds. Single bay sanctuary has to east a transomed 5-light window with ogee hoodmould and finial. Blank returns with crenellated single cell porches in the angles. These have a door to east and a single light window to the return. 6 bay nave has thin wall shafts topped with pinnacles and six 3-light windows on each side to the clerestory. 6 bay aisles have 3-light windows in each bay. South aisle has in the third bay a gabled porch with moulded doorway and hoodmould, with traceried panelled double door and overlight. West tower, 3 stages, has angle buttresses with crocketed gables, and multiple string courses. First stage has, to west, a moulded doorway with ogee hoodmould and finial. Second stage has a 3-light window. Bell stage has in the lower part a blind arcade with a clock on 3 sides and a blank roundel to east. Above, a 3-light transomed bell opening on each side. Canted west porches, flanking the tower have moulded west doorways with crocketed hoodmoulds and traceried panelled double doors with overlights. North and south returns have 2-light windows. INTERIOR: has flat panelled cross beam ceilings, that to nave with thin wall shafts. Sanctuary has an arch with clustered round shafts, set within a larger and more elaborately moulded arch with diagonally set engaged piers. Above this, a Tudor arched panel with traceried plasterwork in the spandrels. Nave has 6 bay arcades with octagonal piers and moulded capitals and arches with linked hoodmoulds. Clerestory sillband. Blind-arcaded wooden gallery over the aisles and across the west end, carried on clustered cast-iron posts. At the west end, a central doorway and above, a moulded arch framing an apsidal recess in the tower, set within a Tudor arched panel with traceried plasterwork spandrels. Aisles have sloping ceilings and traceried cast-iron brackets. At the east ends, traceried wooden screens defining vestries. Central and side entrances, to west, have traceried panelled doors, and the central lobby has traceried panelled walls. On each side of the tower, cantilevered stone winder staircases. Fittings and floors mainly removed. Traceried wooden reredos and octagonal marble and alabaster font remain. Stained glass east window, C19. 2 wooden war memorial tablets, Decorated style, c1920. Resited war memorial tablet from St Luke's Church (qv), c1920. Other memorials mid and late C19. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 451).

Listing NGR: SK3464087334

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Legacy System number:: 456391
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 451

Legal

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