St Josephs Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1973. Church. 2 related planning applications.
St Josephs Chapel
- WRENN ID
- slow-latch-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Central MP: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1973
- Type
- Church
- Address
- St Josephs Chapel, Howard Road, S6 3RW
- OS grid reference
- SK 334 881
- Coordinates
- 53.38892, -1.49818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Joseph's Chapel is a Roman Catholic church built in 1870. It is constructed from coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and features steep pitched slate roofs. The building is designed in the Gothic Revival style and is situated on a sloping site, with basement rooms located under the west end. The layout includes an apsidal nave with a side corridor, a transept, a chapel, and a west porch, all positioned on the south side.
The exterior showcases a chamfered plinth and string courses, along with coped gables. The apse features three lancet windows with linked hoodmoulds, while the nave has a buttressed south side with four lancets. The north side includes two buttresses to the east and four lancets arranged in pairs. Below these, on the west side, are cross casement windows and a door. The west gable is adorned with a triple lancet window and is topped with a shouldered gabled single bellcote featuring a cross. The side corridor contains seven slit windows, the transept has a two-light pointed arch window, and the chapel has three slit lights. The porch, which is angle buttressed, has a cove moulded doorway with a hoodmould and engaged shafts.
Inside, the chapel has a plaster vault with wooden ribs and a continuous string course. The east end is highlighted by a painted and gilt stone reredos featuring crested blind arcading, a central tabernacle, and flanking buttresses with figures, all topped with spires. There is a matching altar, an aumbry to the south, and a piscina to the right. The west end includes a central recess and a panelled gallery with stairs to the south, while the sides feature doorways and figure niches.
Local climate
St Josephs Chapel 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 17 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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