Former Ebenezer Wesleyan Chapel
New Life International Church, 1, South Parade, Sheffield, S3 8SS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247393
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Former Ebenezer Wesleyan Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- New Life International Church, 1, South Parade, Sheffield, S3 8SS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247393
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Former Ebenezer Wesleyan Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- New Life International Church, 1, South Parade, Sheffield, S3 8SS
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:
- New Life International Church, 1, South Parade, Sheffield, S3 8SS
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 35086 88083
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 September 2021 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
SK3588SW
784-1/15/668
SHEFFIELD
SOUTH PARADE (north east side)
No 1, New Life International Church
former Ebenezer Wesleyan Chapel
(Formerly listed as William Brothers of Sheffield, SOUTH PARADE, previously listed as: SOUTH PARADE, Premises of Messrs. W Canning & Co.)
28/06/73
II
Formerly known as: Ebenezer Wesleyan Chapel SOUTH PARADE. Methodist chapel and adjoining Sunday school, now warehouse. Dated 1823, Sunday school dated 1883, additions early C20. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and hipped and gabled slate roofs with single ridge, gable and side wall stacks. Chapel in Gothick style.
EXTERIOR: plinth, string courses and sillbands, crenellated parapet. Octagonal corner piers, carried above the parapet, with flat caps. Two storeys; five x six windows. Windows are traceried three-light pointed arch windows with hoodmoulds. Main body with west tower porch and flanking lobbies. West end has central tower porch with octagonal corner piers and a latticework band between floors. On each side, a single window. Beyond, on each side, two windows. Below, central chamfered pointed doorway with hoodmould and above it, a round window. On either side, a single storey lobby, now used as a showroom, with octagonal corner piers and parapet. Three large single pane C20 windows, with stone mullions between them. Each return has a similar window with toplights. Main body has on each side, six windows on each floor. The two lower north-west windows are covered by a late C19 addition. Late C19 additions have steep pitched slate roofs with coped gables. North-east addition, single storey; four window range.
L-plan. Left gable with two glazing bar two-light pointed arch windows with hoodmoulds and above them, a round window. To right, two single light windows with transoms, and to their right, a blank. West gable has a round window with hoodmould. South-east addition, two storeys; three window range. Three glazing bar windows with transoms and central doorway with overlight and hoodmould, flanked by similar windows. West gable has two large two-light pointed arch windows with hoodmoulds and below, a large canted bay window with hipped roof and four shouldered single lancets.
Rear elevation has a central gable with two windows on each floor and to left, a two storey block; three window range. To left again, a projecting gable with two windows. To right, a single bay range with C20 loading door and two windows.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SK3508688083
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456847
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 471
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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