St Josephs Chapel
ST JOSEPHS CHAPEL, HOWARD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270450
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- St Josephs Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- ST JOSEPHS CHAPEL, HOWARD ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270450
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- St Josephs Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST JOSEPHS CHAPEL, 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:
- ST JOSEPHS CHAPEL, 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 33472 88124
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NW HOWARD ROAD 784-1/5/440 (North West side) 28/06/73 St Joseph's Chapel (Formerly Listed as: HOWARD ROAD Chapel at St Joseph's Home)
GV II
Roman Catholic church. Dated 1870. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched slate roofs. Shouldered double side wall stack. Gothic Revival style. PLAN: built on a sloping site with basement rooms under the west end. Apsidal nave with side corridor, transept, chapel and west porch all on south side. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth and string courses, coped gables. Apse has 3 lancets with linked hoodmoulds. Nave has buttressed south side with 4 lancets. North side has 2 buttresses to east and 4 lancets arranged 2:2. Below them, to west, cross casement windows and a door. West gable has a triple lancet and is topped with a shouldered gabled single bellcote with cross. Side corridor has 7 slit windows. Transept has a 2-light pointed arch window. Chapel has 3 slit lights. Angle buttressed porch has cove moulded doorway with hoodmould and engaged shafts. INTERIOR has plaster vault with wooden ribs. Continuous string course. East end has painted and gilt stone reredos with crested blind arcading, central tabernacle and flanking buttresses with figures, topped with spires. Matching altar. Aumbry to south and piscina to right. West end has central recess and panelled gallery with stairs to south. Sides have doorways and figure niches.
Listing NGR: SK3347288124
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458824
- 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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