Wadsley Parish Church
WADSLEY PARISH CHURCH, WORRALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254580
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Wadsley Parish Church
- Statutory Address:
- WADSLEY PARISH CHURCH, WORRALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254580
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Wadsley Parish Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- WADSLEY PARISH CHURCH, WORRALL LANE
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:
- WADSLEY PARISH CHURCH, WORRALL LANE
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 32158 90694
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK39SW WORRALL LANE, Wadsley
784-1/1/905 (North East side)
28/06/73 Wadsley Parish Church
(Formerly Listed as:
WORRALL ROAD, Wadsley
Wadsley Parish Church)
GV II
Parish church. 1833-34. By Joseph Potter. Restored following a
fire, 1885. Vestry dated 1897. Ashlar with slate roofs. Gothic
Revival style.
PLAN: west tower with spire, nave with aisles, chancel,
south-east porch, north-east vestry.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, angle buttresses, coped parapets.
Short chancel has blank sides. East end has graduated triple
lancet and above, a central oval window with hoodmould.
6-bay buttressed aisles have single lancets in each bay and at
the west ends. South aisle has a gabled figure niche in the
east end. North aisle has a similar niche with a squat lancet
below it.
Gabled south-east porch has chamfered pointed doorway, and a
single lancet in each side.
3 stage west tower has angle buttresses up to the second
stage, string courses, traceried corbel table, and octagonal
broach spire with a single tier of lucarnes. West side has a
chamfered doorway with a bracket lamp above it, and above
again, a gabled niche. North and south sides have a single
lancet. Second stage has a clock to west and a single lancet
to north and south. Bell stage has a single lancet opening
each side.
Parapeted flat-roofed north-east vestry has to north two
2-light mullioned windows, and to east a square chamfered
doorway, all with hoodmoulds.
INTERIOR has double chamfered chancel arch with conical
imposts. Chancel has principal rafter roof and patterned
stained glass. 6-bay nave has 4-centred arched arcades with
hoodmoulds and stops, and fluted octagonal iron piers with
moulded capitals and bases. On 3 sides, wooden gallery with
traceried front panel. Principal rafter roof with arch braces
and short wooden wall shafts. Aisles have similar lean-to
roofs. South aisle has a single stained glass window, 1866.
Tower porch and vestibule have half-glazed doors and 2 plain
stone winder stairs.
Fittings include wooden reredos in Decorated style, traceried
panelled benches, C19. Pulpit and reading desk C20.
Memorials are C19 wall tablets. Wooden war memorial tablet
with marble panel, c1920.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West
Riding: London: 1967-: 459).
Listing NGR: SK3215890694
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457521
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 459
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27991
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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