Greentop Circus Training Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1973. Church, circus school.

Greentop Circus Training Centre

WRENN ID
idle-bracket-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sheffield
Country
England
Date first listed
28 June 1973
Type
Church, circus school
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Greentop Circus Training Centre is a former church, built in 1854 and restored in 1995. It was designed by Flockton & Son in the Gothic Revival style. The building is constructed from squared dressed stone with ashlar dressings, and its roof is now covered with non-natural 'slates'.

The plan consists of a nave with a south aisle, a chancel, a south-west tower with a spire, and a vestry. The exterior features a chamfered plinth and eaves, coped gables, and a square stone side wall stack. Windows have segmental pointed openings. The two-bay, angle-buttressed chancel has trefoil-headed single lancet windows to the south and a similar lancet to the north-east. The east end features a cusped three-light pointed arch window with a hoodmould and mask stops. The three-bay south aisle has three two-light pointed arch windows, and its east end has a traceried three-light pointed arch window. The four-bay nave has four cusped two-light pointed arch windows and a traceried three-light pointed arch window at the west end, all with hoodmoulds and stops.

The two-stage tower has angle buttresses, a string course, and an octagonal broach spire with small lucarnes. A double chamfered doorway with a hoodmould and stops is located to the south, and a small single lancet to the west. The bell stage has ogee-headed pairs of lancet openings on each side. The lean-to north-east vestry has an ogee two-light window to the east and a close boarded door to the north.

Inside, the chancel arch is double chamfered with octagonal imposts, and the chancel has a wagon roof. A triangular headed door can be found on the north side, along with a single window to the east. The nave has a three-bay south arcade with double chamfered arches and octagonal piers, and a double purlin principal rafter roof with arch braces above collars. A door leads to the vestry in the north-east angle. The west end has late 20th-century partitions forming changing rooms, incorporating the former gallery. The south aisle has a lean-to roof. A chamfered pointed inner doorway features in the south-west porch. Fragments of stained glass remain in the heads of the chancel and south aisle windows. No original church fittings are present.

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