Mappin Art Gallery is a Grade II* listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1973. A C19 Art gallery. 1 related planning application.
Mappin Art Gallery
- WRENN ID
- final-threshold-tallow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Central MP: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1973
- Type
- Art gallery
- Address
- Mappin Art Gallery, Weston Park, S10 2TP
- OS grid reference
- SK 338 873
- Coordinates
- 53.38197, -1.49205
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Mappin Art Gallery 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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