Wesley Hall
WESLEY HALL, CROOKES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247313
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Wesley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WESLEY HALL, CROOKES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247313
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Wesley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESLEY HALL, CROOKES
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WESLEY HALL, CROOKES
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 32826 87469
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NW CROOKES 784-1/5/230 (South West side) 28/06/73 Wesley Hall
II
Methodist church and Sunday school. 1907, converted late C20. By WJ Hale. Squared dressed stone with ashlar dressings and pyramidal slate roof topped with a traceried wooden lantern. Arts and Crafts version of Perpendicular Gothic style. PLAN: octagonal main block with radial wings flanking the porch, shallow apsidal chancel and attached vestry and Sunday school. EXTERIOR: main block has heavy battered square angle buttresses with stepped caps and shaped coped parapet. Above the porch, a segment-headed 7-light lancet with traceried transom and 2 chamfered mullions. Left side has 2 similar windows. Below the right one, a 2-light mullioned window flanked by single light windows. Below the left one, a single storey cross-gabled vestry with 3 small square windows. Entrance porch has octagonal flanking buttresses with panelled tops and pyramidal caps and coped parapet with mask corbels. Moulded segment-arched doorway with triple doors and traceried overlight. On either side, a buttressed link with a doorway. Beyond, single wings with coped gables with square clasping buttresses. Each has a moulded segment-headed recess with a 2-light mullioned window with traceried transom. 2 storey gabled chancel has clasping buttresses. On either side, a traceried single lancet and below, 4 casements. To left, a 2 storey link building with a canted wooden oriel window to left and a small plain sash to right. Below, a recessed doorway. To left again, 2 storey gabled Sunday school range. INTERIOR has a half-round arch to the chancel, with a choir gallery. All-round panelled gallery with square wooden posts. Each bay has a segmental arch with extended keystone. Shallow domed ceiling. WJ Hale, 1862-c1929, was a pupil of Innocent & Brown before establishing his own practice in Sheffield in 1893. He designed a number of noteworthy schools and Nonconformist churches. (Who's Who in Arcitecture, 1914; The Architect: July 19th, 1907).
Listing NGR: SK3282687469
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456682
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Who's Who in Architecture, (1914)
The Architect in July 19, (1907)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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