Church at Middlewood Hospital

Church at Middlewood Hospital, Middlewood Road

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268262
Date first listed:
08-Oct-1996
List Entry Name:
Church at Middlewood Hospital
Statutory Address:
Church at Middlewood Hospital, Middlewood Road
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268262
Date first listed:
08-Oct-1996
List Entry Name:
Church at Middlewood Hospital
Statutory Address 1:
Church at Middlewood Hospital, Middlewood Road

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
Church at Middlewood Hospital, Middlewood Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Bradfield
National Grid Reference:
SK 32265 91241

Details

SK 39 SW
564/10/10005

BRADFIELD
MIDDLEWOOD ROAD (South west side)
Church at Middlewood Hospital

08-OCT-1996

II
Church at mental hospital. 1873-1875. Probably by Bernard Hartley, City Surveyor designer of Middlewood Hospital, 1869-71. Coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with tile ridges, coped gables and cross finials. Plinth, sill band and string courses.

Transitional style. Pointed arched windows with hood moulds, mostly single lights. Chancel, nave with aisles, transepts, porches, north cast tower. Chancel, two bays, has apse with three windows. Two windows to south. Single bay vestry, enlarged mid C20, in return angle. Pound window to cast. Nave clerestorey has ten windows each side, with linked hood moulds. West end has two taller two-light windows, and a round window above.

Aisles have each three three-light windows divided by small buttresses. North aisle west end has a four-light flat headed window with a round light above it. South aisle has a smaller version, with three pointed arched lights. North side has a window to west of the porch, south side a pointed arched door. Transepts have two gable windows, with a round window above. South transept has two windows to cast. Gabled porches have moulded pointed arched doorways, and single lancets in each side.

Square tower, two stages, has gabled roof with cross finials. Lower stage has doorway to north, and slit lights above. Recessed bell stage has corner shafts and low parapet. Double chamfered bell opening on each side, with linked hood moulds.

Interior: rendered. Chancel has moulded arch with double shaft imposts, and continuous sill band. Arch braced king post roof. To north, organ in pointed recess. To cast and south, five stained glass War Memorial windows. Flat headed door to south. Panelled ashlar altar and wrought iron rail. Transept arches have double shaft responds. Roofs as nave. North transept has pointed arched opening to east, with organ pipes, and doorway to left. Nave has pointed arched arcades, five bays, with wider arches to transepts. All have hood moulds. Alternating round and quatrefoil piers, all with stiff-leaf capitals. Clerestorey windows on sill band. Arch braced roof with turned king posts. West end has plain windows. Aisles have lean-to roofs on brackets. Single doorways to west, chamfered pointed arches to east.

Fittings include original benches and nine wrought iron standard lamps. Other fittings mid and late C20. Memorials: at west end of nave, a large Decorated style memorial board, commemorating servicemen who died in the hospital 1915-1920. Plaque on each side, in wooden surround. Several brasses to members of staff.

Listing NGR: SK3226591241

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
462023
Legacy System:
LBS

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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