Victoria Methodist Church and adjoining Sunday school

Victoria Methodist Church and adjoining Sunday school, Stafford Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270919
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: Victoria Methodist Church and adjoining Sunday school
Statutory Address:: Victoria Methodist Church and adjoining Sunday school, Stafford Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270919
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: Victoria Methodist Church and adjoining Sunday school
Statutory Address 1:: Victoria Methodist Church and adjoining Sunday school, Stafford 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:: Victoria Methodist Church and adjoining Sunday school, Stafford 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 36549 86704

Details

This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement to credit architect, add source and reformat text to current standards on the 14 December 2021 SK38NE 784-1/6/689

SHEFFIELD STAFFORD ROAD (North East side) Victoria Methodist Church and adjoining Sunday school

(Formerly Listed as: STAFFORD ROAD Victoria Methodist Church)

28/06/73

II

Methodist church and adjoining Sunday school. Dated 1899, John Wills. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with octagonal ventilator to nave. Single side wall stack. Gothic Revival style.

PLAN: chancel, nave with aisles, transepts, south-east and south-west porches, north-west tower with spire, vestry, Sunday school.

EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, buttresses, string courses, hoodmoulds, coped gables. Pointed arch windows throughout. Chancel has a traceried four-light window to east. Nave east end has a single small lancet. Aisles have four pairs of single lancets without hoodmoulds. West end has moulded central doorway with shallow gable and single shafts, flanked by small single lancets. Above, a traceried four-light window and above it a pair of tiny lancets.

Angle buttressed north transept has a graduated triple lancet to north. Similar south transept has a single buttress and to east, a lean-to porch with door to west. Hipped south-west porch has a simply moulded west doorway with shafts and to south, three single lancets. Three stage square tower has angle buttresses, arcaded corbel table and octagonal broach spire. Simply moulded west door with patterned tympanum and above it, a single lancet to west and north. Bell stage has a paired lancet bell opening on each side.

Lean-to north-east vestry has a blocked round window, and a further lean-to to east with door and blocked window. Two storey Sunday school at east end has to north two through-eaves dormers and to right, a flat-headed window, all reglazed. Below, an off-centre four-centred arched doorway flanked to left by two windows and to right by a single one. East end has a large square window with glazing bars.

INTERIOR: has roll-moulded chancel arch with shafts, hoodmould and text. Plain wagon roof. Nave and aisles have matchboarded single span wagon roof with arch braces, traceried gables and stone wall shafts. Traceried panelled gallery on round cast-iron posts. Transepts have similar roofs to the nave. Entrance hall has half-glazed doors and cantilever stone open well stair with traceried cast-iron balustrade.

FITTINGS include matchboard stalls and benches with shaped ends. Panelled octagonal alabaster font with marble shafts, traceried octagonal alabaster pulpit dated 1901. Nave has two early C20 stained glass windows.

Memorials include a First World War memorial tablet and two mid C19 marble tablets, one with portrait, all resited.

Listing NGR: SK3654986704 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, 27 October 2017.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 456855
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Harman, R, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England. Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, (2017)
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 27 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/249600
War Memorials Register, accessed 27 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/46825

Legal

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