Upper Chapel (Unitarian)
UPPER CHAPEL (UNITARIAN), NORFOLK STREET
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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.
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