Church of the Nazarene and Adjoining Boundary Wall and Railing is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1995. A C1885 Church.
Church of the Nazarene and Adjoining Boundary Wall and Railing
- WRENN ID
- roaming-rubblework-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Central MP: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1995
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Nazarene and Adjoining Boundary Wall and Railing, S3 7QB
- OS grid reference
- SK 345 872
- Coordinates
- 53.3808, -1.48239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Nazarene, originally a Catholic Apostolic church and later an Evangelical church, was built around 1885, with alterations in the late 20th century. It is constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof, featuring a side wall stack. The Gothic Revival design includes an apsidal chancel, a vestry, a nave with aisles, and two west towers, one topped with a spire.
The external features include a plinth, quoins, and a coped west gable. The chancel has a staggered triple lancet window to the east, with two smaller lancets on each side. A gabled vestry is located to the north. The buttressed nave has four lancet windows on each side. A projecting bay to the north-west includes angle buttresses, one with a spire pinnacle and coped parapet, and a lancet with a hoodmould. The west gable features a graduated triple lancet and, beneath it, a double chamfered doorway with double doors and a hoodmould, now sheltered by a late 20th-century glazed canopy. One square tower, divided into three stages with a crenellated parapet, has a lancet window to the west on its lower stage and smaller lancets on its upper stages. To the left of this tower is a lancet window, and to the right is another square tower, also divided into three stages, topped with an octagonal broach spire, featuring buttresses, string courses, a lancet to the west on the lower stage, and a quatrefoil window on the second stage.
The interior features a chamfered chancel arch with half-round responds, flanked by pointed arched doors on either side. The chancel has a sillband and a plaster vaulted ceiling with a ribbed apse. The nave has four-bay arcades with octagonal and round columns and wooden arches with traceried spandrels, supporting an arch-braced roof with collars. Two west bays have been enclosed by a late 20th-century screen to create a mezzanine level. Original fittings include traceried wooden stalls, pews, desks with canopies, and an octagonal wooden pulpit, all dating back to the 19th century; there is no stained glass or memorials.
Outside the church, at the west end, a boundary wall constructed of coursed squared stone has chamfered ashlar coping and a wrought-iron railing. The central steps have been renewed.
Local climate
Church of the Nazarene and Adjoining Boundary Wall and Railing receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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