FORMER WALKELY EBENEZER METHODIST CHURCH

FORMER WALKELY EBENEZER METHODIST CHURCH, SOUTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270916
Date first listed:: 23-Sep-1986
List Entry Name:: FORMER WALKELY EBENEZER METHODIST CHURCH
Statutory Address:: FORMER WALKELY EBENEZER METHODIST CHURCH, SOUTH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270916
Date first listed:: 23-Sep-1986
List Entry Name:: FORMER WALKELY EBENEZER METHODIST CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER WALKELY EBENEZER METHODIST CHURCH, SOUTH 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:: FORMER WALKELY EBENEZER METHODIST CHURCH, SOUTH 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:: SK3327788589

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK38NW SOUTH ROAD 784-1/5/669 (South West side) 23/09/86 Former Walkley Ebenezer Methodist Church

II

Methodist church. 1890. By WJ Taylor. Coursed rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3 x 6 bays. Plinth with chamfered ashlar band, moulded impost and first-floor sillbands. Bays defined by giant pilasters on ashlar bases rising to dentilled eaves band and supporting moulded cornice with blocking course and corner dies with ball-in-cup finials. Recessed central bay, 3 windows, under pediment with console cornice and ball-in-cup finials. In the tympanum, a trefoil opening and below it a band inscribed "A D 1890 EBENEZER". Central triple round-arched window with pilaster jambs, flanked on either side by single segment-headed windows. Ground floor has steps up to paired segment-headed 6-panel double doors in the central bay. Above the doors, an ashlar band inscribed "PRIMITIVE METHODIST". On either side, single windows. All these openings have keyed hoodmoulds and the windows have corbelled sills and margin light glazing. Returns have projecting front bay with a single window on each floor in the same style as the front. The body of the building has dentilled eaves, coped parapet and a gable stack. 5 bays, defined by giant pilasters, have round-arched plain sashes above and smaller segment-headed sashes below, all with corbelled sills and keystones. INTERIOR has a gallery on all 4 sides, carried on columns with Corinthian capitals, with canted corners and panelled front with decorative iron grilles. Moulded ceiling panels. At the front, platform with panelled pulpit flanked on either side by stairs with decorative iron balustrades, the moulded handrail continuing as the altar rail, carried on iron columns with flowers in spandrels. Above, organ, 1894, in panelled Gothic case, flanked by single stained glass windows. Panelled doors and pitch-pine benches throughout. Octagonal stone font on pedestal. Building vacant at time of survey. (100 Years for God (Centenary pamphlet): Sheffield: 1947-).

Listing NGR: SK3327788589

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Legacy System number:: 456848
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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100 Years for God Walkley Ebenezer Methodist Church Centenary Pamphlet, 1947,

Legal

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