Church of St Thomas A Becket and Remains of Beauchief Abbey Church
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET AND REMAINS OF BEAUCHIEF ABBEY CHURCH, BEAUCHIEF ABBEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1271291
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas A Becket and Remains of Beauchief Abbey Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET AND REMAINS OF BEAUCHIEF ABBEY CHURCH, BEAUCHIEF ABBEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1271291
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas A Becket and Remains of Beauchief Abbey Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET AND REMAINS OF BEAUCHIEF ABBEY CHURCH, BEAUCHIEF ABBEY LANE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET AND REMAINS OF BEAUCHIEF ABBEY CHURCH, BEAUCHIEF ABBEY LANE
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 33343 81923
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38SW BEAUCHIEF ABBEY LANE 784-1/9/66 (East side) 01/05/52 Church of St Thomas a Becket and remains of Beauchief Abbey Church (Formerly Listed as: BEAUCHIEF DRIVE (East side) Church of St Thomas a Becket & remains of Beauchief Abbey Church)
GV II*
Remains of Premonstratensian abbey, now a church. c1175 and 1662, restored C19. Founded as an abbey by Robert Fitzranulph, dissolved 1536. Church established and remains restored by Edward Pegge. Nave, west tower, and attached remains of walls. Coursed rubble and ashlar with stone slate roofs. EXTERIOR: gabled nave has chamfered plinth and incomplete string course to north. East end has a 4-light pointed arched window with intersecting tracery and hoodmould. South side has a near-central round-headed C12 doorway, reglazed to form a window. Attached to the south-east corner, a 7m length of consolidated wall approx 3m high. Truncated west tower has a moulded plinth, gabled angle buttresses and pyramidal roof behind low parapet. To west, a reglazed early C14, 5-light pointed arch window with rebated reveal and hoodmould. Below, moulded Early English style doorway, its shafts missing, with C20 double doors and glazing bar overlight. To north, a reset C12 moulded doorway. To south, reset moulded C14 doorway, 3 orders. Tower north side has an ogee headed doorway with ogee hoodmould and finial. East side has a large pointed arched window with moulded head, covered by the nave. INTERIOR has strutted queen post roof, C19. To west, double chamfered tower arch with clustered piers and chamfered responds. Cross beam ceiling under the tower. C17 box pews, panelled octagonal oak pulpit with reading desk and clerk's pew below. C19 octagonal font. Early C19 round-headed psalm board with coat of arms. Mid C19 stained glass window. Memorials include marble and slate tablet with figure, 1846, by Henry Weekes to Elizabeth Burnell. Pedimented marble and slate tablets, 1679 and 1774. Beauchief Abbey is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 475-6; Beauchief Abbey - a short history & description: Robinson HC: Sheffield).
Listing NGR: SK3334381923
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455437
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Robinson, H C, Beauchief Abbey A Short History and Description, ()
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 475-6
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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