Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, HOWARD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270449
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HOWARD ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-10-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/06309/03
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270449
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HOWARD ROAD
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:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HOWARD 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 33391 88419
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NW HOWARD ROAD
784-1/5/443 (North West side)
28/06/73 Church of St Mary
II
Parish church. 1869 with addition, 1928. By JG Weightman.
Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Gothic
Revival style.
PLAN: chancel, north transept, nave with clerestory and
aisles, south-west tower with spire.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, corbelled eaves, coped gables,
north and south gables with crosses, buttresses. Chancel east
gable has angle buttresses and a 4-light pointed arch window
with Geometrical tracery and hoodmould. South side has a
double lancet. Transept has a double lancet to east and a
Decorated 3-light pointed arch window in the gable. Door in
west side.
Nave clerestory has 6 quatrefoil and trefoil windows on each
side. West gable has a 4-light pointed arch window and 7 small
single lancets below. To right, 2 storey addition, 1928.
South aisle has six 2-light pointed arch windows. North aisle
and baptistry has 7 similar windows and a single lancet to
east.
South-west tower, 3 stages, has angle buttresses and string
courses. To north, chamfered and moulded doorway with
traceried gable and finial. To west, a single lancet and to
its right a canted stair turret with a door and a single
lancet above it. Second stage has a triangular window over the
door and a single lancet to east and west. Panelled bell stage
has a single squat pointed traceried opening on each side with
a clock above them. Octagonal broach spire with 2 tiers of
gabled lucarnes on alternate faces.
INTERIOR: has double chamfered chancel arch. Chancel has
sillband, and double chamfered arch to transept. Roof similar
to nave. Nave has 6 bay arcades with double chamfered arches
with alternating round and octagonal piers. Common rafter roof
with strutted collars. West end has gallery with organ case
each side. Transept has C20 glazed screens. North aisle has
segmental pointed west door and east arch. South aisle has
blind arcaded baptistry at east end.
FITTINGS include 2 late C19 windows by Kayll of Leeds and
another late C19 window. C19 D-shaped traceried stone pulpit,
octagonal font with C20 cover, triple shaft brass lectern and
Perpendicular style wooden reredos. Traceried panelled stalls.
2 wooden war memorial tablets.
(Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).
Listing NGR: SK3339188419
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:
- 458821
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/70441
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27907
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/223558
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/96439
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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