Highfield Trinity Anglican And Methodist Church And Boundary Wall

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE LONDON ROAD 784-1/6/483 (North East side) 28/06/73 Highfield Trinity Anglican & Methodist Church & boundary wall (Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD Brunswick Trinity Methodist Church)

GV II

Methodist chapel, now Anglican and Methodist church, and attached boundary wall and railing. 1877-79. By John Dodsley Webster. Mid and late C20 alterations. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with 3 octagonal gable stacks. PLAN: chancel with basement, nave with clerestory and aisles, transepts, vestries, south-west tower with spire. EXTERIOR: plinth, string courses, corbel tables, coped gables. Blank sided chancel has triple buttressed east end with 2 single lancets and above them, 3 trefoils. Below them, a double lancet to left and 2 single lancets to right. All these windows have hoodmoulds. In the basement, 2 cross casements flanked by single transomed windows. Nave clerestory has on each side 3 through-eaves dormers with 3-light pointed arch windows. West end has a 5-light pointed arch window with Geometrical tracery and hoodmould, and above it a narrow graduated triple lancet. Below it, a projecting gabled doorway with shafts and hoodmould, flanked by single lancets with hoodmoulds. 3 bay aisles have buttresses and 3 graduated triple lancets. In the basements, 3 cross casements, one on the north side converted to a door. North aisle has a 2-light pointed arch window with hoodmould in the west end. Transepts have in their gables 2 cusped double lancets and above them, 2 taller 2-light pointed arch windows, all with hoodmoulds. In the peak, a quatrefoil. In the basements, two 3-light cross mullioned windows. On the east sides of the transepts, 2 storey lean-to vestries each with a single lancet to east and a door below it. To north and south, a single window on each floor. South-west tower, 4 stages, has gabled angle buttresses topped with octagonal turrets and spires, and pierced balustrade. West side has double chamfered doorway with hoodmould and to south, a single lancet. Second stage has single lancets on 3 sides. Third stage has a clock on 3 sides. Bell stage has a 2-light pointed arch bell opening on each side with Geometrical tracery and hoodmould. Setback octagonal spire. INTERIOR: nave has a roll moulded eastern arch with clustered ringed imposts, containing a Gothic organ case. 4 bay arcades with round piers and roll moulded arches with hoodmoulds. South-west bay screened off, and eastern bays containing C20 screens and gallery. Arch braced wagon roof, the 2 west bays ceiled in, with ringed wall shafts. Aisles have lean-to roofs with wooden wall shafts and half-arches at the east ends. Eastern bays have choir galleries. Fittings include traceried oak pulpit and matching oak font, C19. Outside, attached boundary wall with 5 coped rectangular piers and 4 sections of wrought-iron railing, approx 75m long. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3509385619