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SHEFFIELD SK38NE LONDON ROAD
784-1/6/483 (North East side)
28/06/73 Highfield Trinity Anglican &
Methodist Church & boundary wall
(Formerly Listed as:
LONDON ROAD
Brunswick Trinity Methodist Church) GV II Methodist chapel, now Anglican and Methodist church, and
attached boundary wall and railing. 1877-79. By John Dodsley
Webster. Mid and late C20 alterations. Rock-faced stone with
ashlar dressings and slate roofs with 3 octagonal gable
stacks.
PLAN: chancel with basement, nave with clerestory and aisles,
transepts, vestries, south-west tower with spire.
EXTERIOR: plinth, string courses, corbel tables, coped gables.
Blank sided chancel has triple buttressed east end with 2
single lancets and above them, 3 trefoils. Below them, a
double lancet to left and 2 single lancets to right. All these
windows have hoodmoulds. In the basement, 2 cross casements
flanked by single transomed windows.
Nave clerestory has on each side 3 through-eaves dormers with
3-light pointed arch windows. West end has a 5-light pointed
arch window with Geometrical tracery and hoodmould, and above
it a narrow graduated triple lancet. Below it, a projecting
gabled doorway with shafts and hoodmould, flanked by single
lancets with hoodmoulds.
3 bay aisles have buttresses and 3 graduated triple lancets.
In the basements, 3 cross casements, one on the north side
converted to a door. North aisle has a 2-light pointed arch
window with hoodmould in the west end. Transepts have in their
gables 2 cusped double lancets and above them, 2 taller
2-light pointed arch windows, all with hoodmoulds. In the
peak, a quatrefoil. In the basements, two 3-light cross
mullioned windows. On the east sides of the transepts, 2
storey lean-to vestries each with a single lancet to east and
a door below it. To north and south, a single window on each
floor.
South-west tower, 4 stages, has gabled angle buttresses topped
with octagonal turrets and spires, and pierced balustrade.
West side has double chamfered doorway with hoodmould and to
south, a single lancet. Second stage has single lancets on 3
sides. Third stage has a clock on 3 sides. Bell stage has a
2-light pointed arch bell opening on each side with
Geometrical tracery and hoodmould. Setback octagonal spire.
INTERIOR: nave has a roll moulded eastern arch with clustered
ringed imposts, containing a Gothic organ case. 4 bay arcades
with round piers and roll moulded arches with hoodmoulds.
South-west bay screened off, and eastern bays containing C20
screens and gallery. Arch braced wagon roof, the 2 west bays
ceiled in, with ringed wall shafts. Aisles have lean-to roofs
with wooden wall shafts and half-arches at the east ends.
Eastern bays have choir galleries.
Fittings include traceried oak pulpit and matching oak font,
C19.
Outside, attached boundary wall with 5 coped rectangular piers
and 4 sections of wrought-iron railing, approx 75m long.
(Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).
Listing NGR: SK3509385619
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