Crookes Congregational Church And Attached Hall And Railings

Crookes Congregational Church, built in 1906 by WJ Hale, is currently being converted into offices. The church is constructed from coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and features a gabled and octagonal pyramidal roof topped with an octagonal wooden lantern and a leaded spire. It is designed in the Perpendicular Revival style and includes two side wall stacks that resemble buttresses.

The exterior showcases a plinth, coped gables, and battered square angle buttresses with flat caps that rise above the parapet. The building has an octagonal plan with a south porch and a gabled eastern wing. The east wing features a three-light pointed arch window, with the mullions extending above the parapet as buttresses, and a datestone positioned between them. Below this, there is an apsidal projection with two storeys, each having a flat-headed three-light traceried window. The main body of the church contains a five-light pointed arch window with panel tracery beneath a gable, along with four single flat-headed windows below it. The south-west window is accompanied by a gabled porch with flanking buttresses and a chamfered segmental pointed doorway that includes an overlight and three doors.

Attached to the church is a hall located to the north-west, which has a gabled wing on the right featuring a three-light mullioned casement on each floor. To the left, there is a square porch with flanking buttresses, similar to the one on the south-west side.

Inside, the church has round-headed arcades supported by round columns and a shallow dome. There is a panelled gallery, and the east side includes a traceried panelled dais and a reading desk in front of the organ case, along with four original pendant lights.

The property also features a coped boundary wall with wrought-iron railings leading to the steps and landing. WJ Hale, who designed this church, was known for creating several notable schools and Nonconformist churches in Sheffield between 1893 and 1929.