Trinity Fir Vale Methodist Church

Trinity Fir Vale Methodist Church, Firth Park Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254814
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: Trinity Fir Vale Methodist Church
Statutory Address:: Trinity Fir Vale Methodist Church, Firth Park Road

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Date:: 2002-07-07
Reference:: IOE01/06793/26
Rights:: © Mrs Barbara A West. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254814
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: Trinity Fir Vale Methodist Church
Statutory Address 1:: Trinity Fir Vale Methodist Church, Firth Park 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:: Trinity Fir Vale Methodist Church, Firth Park 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 36664 90278

Details

This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement to credit architect, add source and reformat text to current standards on the 14 December 2021

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SHEFFIELD FIRTH PARK ROAD (South East side) Trinity Fir Vale Methodist Church

28/06/73

II

Methodist church. c1890, John Wills, with late C20 alterations. Rock-faced ashlar with ashlar dressings and slate roofs, the nave with tiered octagonal ventilator. Gothic Revival style.

PLAN: nave with clerestory and aisles, chancel, vestry, double gabled transepts, north-west tower with spire, west and south-west porches.

EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth and eaves, string course, coped gables. Chancel has blank sides, the south with two small lean-to projections, and east end with plain graduated triple lancet. Nave clerestory has continuous cusped windows. East end has a small lancet and buttressed west end has a graduated triple lancet, the central light with plate tracery. Above, a small graduated triple lancet with round heads. Buttressed aisles, five bays, have chamfered double lancets. On the north side, the second from left window has been truncated and a pair of doors inserted below. Buttressed transepts have a single lancet in each gable, and blank sides. Single storey three bay vestry has to north two double casements and to right a half-glazed double door. East end has a door to left.

Two stage tower has prominent angle buttresses topped with octagonal spires, and chamfered string courses. West side has a moulded doorway with hoodmould and tympanum with quatrefoil. Above it, a single lancet with hoodmould. North side has a hipped canted projection with three single lancets with hoodmoulds. Second stage has a double lancet bell opening on each side, with linked hoodmoulds. Spire has a broached octagonal base with single lancets on four sides, and a weather vane atop. Buttressed west porch has a moulded doorway with a traceried glazed wooden screen, and a single window in each side. Canted, hipped south-west porch has to west a double roll moulded doorway and three single lancets, all with hoodmoulds.

INTERIOR: rendered interior is divided by late C20 block wall to form reduced nave, meeting rooms and kitchen. Chancel has moulded arch with hoodmould, shaft and corbel imposts, and wagon roof. South side has moulded arch containing organ. Nave has four bay arcades with ringed cast-iron piers, and king post roof with traceried spandrels. Aisles have lean-to roofs. North aisle has glazed internal porch and to east, glazed double door. South aisle east end has moulded arch containing organ, and to right a double door.

FITTINGS include octagonal alabaster and marble font, traceried panelled octagonal alabaster pulpit with curved stair, matchboard benches, and patterned glass in the chancel east end, all C19.

Memorials include a stainless steel war memorial tablet, commemorating both world wars.

Listing NGR: SK3666490278

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, 30 October 2017.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 458135
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Harman, R, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England. Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South , (2017)
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/249537
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/249603
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/249625
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27694
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27695
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27696

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