Hale Court And Attached Wall And Railings

SHEFFIELD

SK38NW NORTHFIELD ROAD 784-1/5/553 (North West side) 22/02/85 Hale Court and attached wall and railings (Formerly Listed as: NORTHFIELD ROAD St Luke's Methodist Church & school)

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Methodist church and school, now house and flats. 1899-1900, converted 1989-90. By William John Hale. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and C20 plain tile roofs. Arts & Crafts style. PLAN: canted chancel, hipped side chapels, transepts, nave, west porch. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, sillband, coped gables. East end has traceried 3-light mullioned window and on either side, a transomed single light window with double mouchettes. Side chapels have each a single transomed window. Transepts have traceried 4-light lancets with hoodmoulds, with C20 openings below. Buttressed 3 bay nave has 2-light square headed windows with transoms and tracery on each side, the south-east one replaced by a C20 entrance and steps. West end has stepped flanking buttresses and square flanking towers with panelled tops under leaded tent roofs with finials. Moulded segmental pointed head to 5-light traceried window with 2 major mullions. Flat roofed porch has string course and coped parapet and segmental gable. Projecting segment-headed doorway with double doors and mullioned overlight, with angel-head imposts returned along the sides, sculpted by Frank Tory. On either side, flat-headed depressed ogee windows, repeated in the returns. The church and school are linked by a chamfered segmental pointed archway with hoodmould. Buttressed 4 bay school of simpler design, with roof topped with tent roofed square bell turret. East end has a wooden Diocletian window with blocked openings below it. On either side, 4 single light square headed windows with double mouchettes. West end has a hipped polygonal apse with 3 round-headed single light windows with double mouchettes set high up. On either side, transomed single light windows with double mouchettes. INTERIOR: church has arch braced principal rafter roof with 3 purlins and traceried spandrels. Outside, stone plinth with railing and 2 pairs of gate piers and gates to Northfield Road. WJ Hale, 1862-1929, designed a number of noteworthy schools and Nonconformist churches in Sheffield between 1893 and 1929.

Listing NGR: SK3291588089