Crookes Congregational Church And Attached Hall And Railings

SHEFFIELD

SK38NW SPRINGVALE ROAD 784-1/5/671 (North side) 28/06/73 Crookes Congregational Church and attached hall and railings

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Congregational church, undergoing conversion to offices. Dated 1906. By WJ Hale. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings with gabled and octagonal pyramidal roof topped with an octagonal wooden lantern and leaded spire. 2 side wall stacks in the form of buttresses. Perpendicular Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, coped gables, battered square angle buttresses with flat caps, rising above the parapet. Octagonal plan with south porch and gabled eastern wing. East wing has a 3-light pointed arch window with the mullions carried above the parapet as buttresses. Between them, a datestone. Below, an apsidal projection, 2 storeys, with a flat-headed 3-light traceried window on each floor. On either side, similar fenestration. The main body has a 5-light pointed arch window with panel tracery on 6 sides, under a gable. Below 4 of them, 3 single flat-headed windows. Under the south-west window, a gabled porch with flanking buttresses and chamfered segmental pointed doorway with overlight and 3 doors. Adjoining hall, to north-west, has a gabled wing to right with a 3-light mullioned casement on each floor. To left, a square porch with flanking buttresses, similar to the south-west one. INTERIOR: has round-headed arcades with round columns and shallow dome. Panelled gallery. East side has traceried panelled dais and reading desk in front of organ case. 4 original pendant lights. Undergoing conversion to offices at time of survey. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, a coped boundary wall with wrought-iron railing to steps and landing. WJ Hale, 1862-1929, designed a number of noteworthy schools and Nonconformist churches in Sheffield between 1893 and 1929. Wesley Hall, Crookes, (qv) is of a similar design. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3304087854