Wesleyan Methodist Church
WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH, CARVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271075
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Wesleyan Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH, CARVER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271075
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Wesleyan Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH, CARVER STREET
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:
- WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH, CARVER STREET
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 35038 87248
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK3587SW CARVER STREET 784-1/24/149 (West side) 01/05/52 Wesleyan Methodist Church (Formerly Listed as: CARVER STREET Methodist Church)
GV II
Wesleyan Methodist church, now disused. 1804, with addition c1845. By W Jenkins. Brick with stone dressings and slate roof. EXTERIOR: plinth, impost bands, first floor band, modillion eaves and pediment, coped gables. Windows are 8 pane sashes set in round-headed recesses. 2 storeys; 5 x 6 windows. West front has a projecting 3 bay centre with pediment containing inscribed tablet, under a 5 bay gable containing a roundel. Central Venetian window. Doorcase with engaged Tuscan columns and open pediment, with 2-leaf panelled doors and fanlight. On either side, 6 windows. On the ground floor, 5 windows and to east, round-headed doorway with fanlight. 2 storey rear addition, arranged as a cross-wing, has pedimented gables, each with 2 recessed round-headed plain sashes on each floor. Rear has closed pediment and 6 similar flush windows arranged 1:4:1. Off-centre round-headed door with 2 windows to left and a single window to right. INTERIOR: rendered, with central wood panelled entrance hall with glazed doors and bronze centenary memorial tablet in marble surround. On either side, lobbies with L-plan wooden stairs with stick balusters. The body of the church has at the front a segment-headed recess with eared architrave, flanked on either side by pilasters with Commandment boards. Beyond, single doors and then round-headed recesses. Above, fluted Ionic pilasters flanking the organ opening with bow fronted organ case, 1902. On either side, a round-headed recess. At the rear, a single door each side. Single-panel ceiling has moulded edge and large central boss, and modillion cornice. All-round gallery has rounded corners and round wooden posts with octagonal feet. Fielded panelled front with dentilled cornice and top rail. FITTINGS include early C20 wooden pulpit, Baroque Revival style, with paired Ionic columns and projecting centre. Curved stair with cast-iron balustrade. U-plan cast-iron communion rail with moulded wooden top. Classical style wooden lectern and panelled communion table. Matchboard pews throughout, with benches on the gallery. Memorials include a marble wall tablet, 1830, with splayed corners, 2 portrait medallions and bust. Ogee headed Gothic wall tablet with portrait medallion, 1837. Ten C19 marble tablets, mainly Classical. This building is said to have an exceptionally large single span timber roof. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 452).
Listing NGR: SK3503887248
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456194
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 452
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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