UPPER CHAPEL (UNITARIAN)

UPPER CHAPEL (UNITARIAN), NORFOLK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271182
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: UPPER CHAPEL (UNITARIAN)
Statutory Address:: UPPER CHAPEL (UNITARIAN), NORFOLK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271182
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: UPPER CHAPEL (UNITARIAN)
Statutory Address 1:: UPPER CHAPEL (UNITARIAN), NORFOLK STREET

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:: UPPER CHAPEL (UNITARIAN), NORFOLK 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:: SK3544687244

Details

SK3587SW 784-1/24/548 28/06/73

SHEFFIELD NORFOLK STREET (North West side) Upper Chapel (Unitarian)

GV II

Unitarian chapel. 1700, raised and refronted 1847-48, vestry added 1900. Brick with ashlar front and slate roof. Classical Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, dentilled cornices to first floor, dentilled wooden eaves cornice and pediment. 2 storeys; 5 x 4 windows. Windows are mainly round-headed glazing bar sashes with bracketed sills. Front has a slightly projecting centre with pediment and 3 windows with moulded surrounds with pilasters. On each side, single similar windows. Below, 4-column Ionic portico with dentilled cornice. Beneath it, 3 round-headed recesses, the outer ones with panelled double doors and fanlights. On either side, single 12 pane sashes with eared architraves. Returns have string courses and 4 windows on each floor. Gabled single storey vestry, to south-east, has a large square bay window to east and a smaller canted bay window to south. INTERIOR has a panelled oval gallery, 1848, on 3 sides, with iron posts with Corinthian capitals. Dentilled cornice and enriched painted ceiling with bosses. East end has single corniced 6-panel doors flanking the pulpit and above, a round-arched opening with organ case above and screen below. On either side of the opening, stained glass windows c1945, by Hugh Easton. West end has 2 doors with pedimented glazed inner porches. Entrance lobby has moulded cornice and at each end, a stone cantilever dogleg stair with cast-iron balustrade. Vestry has moulded cornice and coved ceiling, and fireplace with pilasters, pediment and overmantel mirror. STAINED GLASS: 5 windows to the ground floor, 1899, by Henry Holiday. 3 late C19, four 1917-1920. Fittings include oak pulpit, c1900, Classical style, with canted front and spiral stair, carried on 6 Doric columns. Plain benches c1870. MEMORIALS include a draped oval marble tablet with cherubs and winged skull, 1721; tablet with apron and urn, 1789, attributed to Chantrey; draped oval marble and slate tablet, 1830, by Edwin Smith of Sheffield; Classical tablet with portrait medallion, 1861. (Welcome to Upper Chapel (visitors' guide); The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 452-453).

Listing NGR: SK3544687244

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Legacy System number:: 455750
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 452-453
Other
Welcome to Upper Chapel Sheffield Visitors Guide,

Legal

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