Unitarian Church and Adjoining Boundary Wall and Bridge

UNITARIAN CHURCH AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALL AND BRIDGE, CROOKESMOOR ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1270890
Date first listed:
04-Sept-1989
List Entry Name:
Unitarian Church and Adjoining Boundary Wall and Bridge
Statutory Address:
UNITARIAN CHURCH AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALL AND BRIDGE, CROOKESMOOR ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1270890
Date first listed:
04-Sept-1989
Date of most recent amendment:
12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:
Unitarian Church and Adjoining Boundary Wall and Bridge
Statutory Address 1:
UNITARIAN CHURCH AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALL AND BRIDGE, CROOKESMOOR 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:
UNITARIAN CHURCH AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALL AND BRIDGE, CROOKESMOOR 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 33499 87447

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK38NW CROOKESMOOR ROAD 784-1/5/235 (South East side) 04/09/89 Unitarian Church and adjoining boundary wall and bridge (Formerly Listed as: CROOKESMOOR ROAD Unitarian Church and attached railings)

II

Unitarian church, adjoining boundary wall and bridge. c1900. Red brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with a side wall stack. Perpendicular Revival style. Buttressed shouldered coped gables. PLAN: cruciform plan, built on a steeply sloping site so that the west entrance to the church is at ground level, and a community hall and other business rooms are below and to east. EXTERIOR: east end has a flat-roofed 2 storey projection with two 2-light mullioned windows and below, a canted bay window with 3 lights. Chancel east gable has a 5-light pointed arched panel tracery window, and below it a 4-light cross mullioned window with 2 major mullions. Transepts have 5-light pointed arch panel tracery windows and below them, large cross-mullioned windows. Both transepts have lower gabled wings to east, with irregular fenestration. Nave clerestory, 3 bays, has shallow arched recesses with large segment-headed 2-light Perpendicular windows. Buttressed crenellated aisles have 4 traceried windows and below them, large cross mullioned windows to the community hall, with basement windows below. West front has a low brick wall topped with railings, and square brick piers. This is linked to the church by a segment-arched bridge with moulded ashlar coped parapets, with steps leading to the churchyard. Projecting crenellated entrance porch has a cross finial. Central segmental ashlar entrance arch has carved bosses and 2 doors set at an angle. Above and behind, a 5-light pointed arched window with panel tracery. Above again, the chequerboarded gable has a tiny lancet. INTERIOR has segment-headed nave arcades and shallow plaster vault. Tall dado panelling and original wooden fittings. Disused at time of survey.

Listing NGR: SK3349987447

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
456795
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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