Gymnasium And Music Room At Number 10 Sheffield High School For Girls

SHEFFIELD

SK3386NE RUTLAND PARK 784-1/27/638 (North side (off)) Gymnasium and music room at No.10 Sheffield High School for Girls

GV II

Formerly known as: Trinity Congregational Church and adjoining Sunday School NEWBOULD LANE. Congregational church and adjoining Sunday school, now gymnasium and music room. c1870, Sunday school dated 1929. Converted late C20. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles and coped gables. Gothic Revival style. PLAN: apsidal east end, crypt, south-east tower, transepts, aisleless nave, lobby and west porch. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, moulded eaves. Canted east end has string course and angle buttresses. 3 cusped round windows, and below, a 2-light stone mullioned window flanked by single light windows, all with shouldered heads. Crypt has 6 reglazed windows divided by buttresses. To north, a small lean-to projection with a single shouldered window. Square south-east tower, adjoining transept, has patterned slate pyramidal roof with finial, moulded eaves and large coped side wall stack. Blank middle stage, and small bell stage above string course, with 3 small cusped openings on 3 sides. Lower stage, integral with the transept, has 2 shouldered windows and below, crypt door with overlight, and to right, 2 stepped shouldered stair windows. South transept has a 2-light pointed arch window with a wheel window above it. Below, 3 pointed arched openings, each with a 3-light window, and to left, a cusped headed double door. To west, a 2-light pointed arch window. North transept has a pointed arched recess containing a traceried wheel window and below, 2 plain 2-light pointed arch windows. To east and west, a further 2-light window with plate tracery. Nave has on either side four 2-light pointed arch windows with plate tracery, the west ones blocked and altered. West end has a similar 5-light with plate tracery and hoodmould. Transverse lean-to lobby has chamfered coped parapet and end walls forming coped buttresses. Central west porch has coped gable flanked by gabled angle buttresses topped with pinnacles and spires. Moulded segment-arched doorway with single marble shafts and hoodmould, and double board doors. Beyond, on either side, a single small lancet, the right one with louvres. To left, adjoining Sunday school in Tudor Revival style. INTERIOR: moulded arch to east end, with hoodmould and enriched impost band. Apse has 3 windows with hoodmoulds and sillband with corbels. Nave and transepts have principal rafter roofs with principal rafters in the form of strutted wooden girders, with false hammer beams and moulded stone corbels. At the west corners of the crossing, a shaft respond on a corbel. South transept has to east a pointed arched door. Nave west end has 2 panelled doors. No fittings, memorials or stained glass remain.

Listing NGR: SK3357586634