Mappin Art Gallery

The Mappin Art Gallery in Sheffield is an art gallery built in 1887, with a left addition from 1937 and a rear addition completed between 1961 and 1965. It was designed by the architectural firm Flockton & Gibbs, with the 1961 addition by J.L. Womersley, the City Architect. The building features a combination of ashlar and brick with asphalt roofs and is designed in the Greek Revival style.

The structure has a plinth and a rusticated lower stage, topped by an entablature and angle pilasters. It is a single storey with a recessed attic and a higher, square, windowless central block that has a cornice. The prominent central section includes a four-columned Ionic portico with a decorated pediment featuring a lion on top. Steps lead up to a central panelled double door with an overlight. On either side of the central block, there is a set-back giant Ionic colonnade with five bays and projecting blank apsidal ends.

The 1937 addition is designed in a stripped Classical style, featuring a plinth, sill band, eaves cornice, and parapet, with ten mullioned casements that have plain stone surrounds. The left return of this addition has a slightly projecting centre with five blank sections separated by pilasters, with a single blank bay on each side. To the right, there is a projecting entrance with a pediment.

Inside, the gallery has a square entrance hall with a moulded cornice and a king post roof supported by moulded timbers and large scroll brackets, along with a pyramidal skylight. On either side of the entrance hall, there are corniced doorcases with fanlights, and the exhibition halls flanking the entrance hall also feature similar glazed roofs.