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Latitude: 53.3889 / 53°23'20"N
Longitude: -1.4982 / 1°29'53"W
OS Eastings: 433472
OS Northings: 388124
OS Grid: SK334881
Mapcode National: GBR 99G.9Z
Mapcode Global: WHCCJ.Y2RT
Plus Code: 9C5W9GQ2+HP
Entry Name: St Josephs Chapel
Listing Date: 28 June 1973
Last Amended: 12 December 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1270450
English Heritage Legacy ID: 458824
ID on this website: 101270450
Location: Birkendale, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S6
County: Sheffield
Electoral Ward/Division: Walkley
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Sheffield
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Walkley St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Sheffield
Tagged with: Chapel
SHEFFIELD
SK38NW HOWARD ROAD
784-1/5/440 (North West side)
28/06/73 St Joseph's Chapel
(Formerly Listed as:
HOWARD ROAD
Chapel at St Joseph's Home)
GV II
Roman Catholic church. Dated 1870. Coursed squared stone with
ashlar dressings and steep pitched slate roofs. Shouldered
double side wall stack. Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: built on a sloping site with basement rooms under the
west end. Apsidal nave with side corridor, transept, chapel
and west porch all on south side.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth and string courses, coped gables.
Apse has 3 lancets with linked hoodmoulds. Nave has buttressed
south side with 4 lancets. North side has 2 buttresses to east
and 4 lancets arranged 2:2. Below them, to west, cross
casement windows and a door. West gable has a triple lancet
and is topped with a shouldered gabled single bellcote with
cross. Side corridor has 7 slit windows. Transept has a
2-light pointed arch window. Chapel has 3 slit lights. Angle
buttressed porch has cove moulded doorway with hoodmould and
engaged shafts.
INTERIOR has plaster vault with wooden ribs. Continuous string
course. East end has painted and gilt stone reredos with
crested blind arcading, central tabernacle and flanking
buttresses with figures, topped with spires. Matching altar.
Aumbry to south and piscina to right. West end has central
recess and panelled gallery with stairs to south. Sides have
doorways and figure niches.
Listing NGR: SK3347288124
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