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SHEFFIELD

SK3587SE NORFOLK STREET 784-1/25/549 (North West side) 28/06/73 Victoria Hall Methodist Church, meeting rooms and area railing (Formerly Listed as: NORFOLK STREET Victoria Hall)

GV II

Methodist church, adjoining meeting rooms and area railing. 1906-08. Won in competition by Waddington, Son & Dunkerley of Manchester; modified and completed by WJ Hale. Remodelled c1960. Red brick and ashlar, with ashlar dressing and hipped and gabled slate and glazed roofs. Arts and Crafts style. EXTERIOR: plinth, quoins string courses and eaves cornice. Main body with vestries, meeting rooms and south-west tower. Windows are mainly mullioned and cross mullioned, all with leaded glazing. West end has projecting central feature with large panelled flanking pilasters with wreaths, rising through a dentilled cornice and topped with corniced dies. Coped gable with projecting central feature with segmental pediment containing crest. 3 tall round-arched 2-light windows with tracery, separated by Ionic pilasters. At the foot of the windows, a blind arcade, which continues as the parapet of a small balcony to left. To left, a corridor with 2 single light windows. To right, a tall projection with a single window. Below, rusticated ground floor with triple entrance under canopy, 1966, flanked to left by a showcase and to right by 2 single light windows. Right return, to George Street, has in the centre a single storey section above a basement, 4 bays. Full height flying buttresses also forming the piers to the area railing at ground level. 4 moulded round-arched windows, 3 lights. Basement has 4 plain round arches and area lined with glazed brick. To left, a hipped block, 2 storeys plus attics; 2 window range. 2 large flat-headed 3-light windows with central round-headed blank panels. Left return has a tall round-headed 2-light window. Attic has two 3-light mullioned windows. Ground floor has a 2-light mullioned window and a C20 steel shuttered door. To right, a projecting square porch, 3 storeys; 3 window range. Two 2-light mullioned windows with sillband, and above, a central single light window flanked by two 2-light ones. Below, to left, 3 flat-headed barred windows. To right, an entrance with multiple recessed doors, heavy multi-keystone lintel and above it, a Diocletian window. Left return, to Chapel Walk, has a 2-storey central section, 4 bays, with parapet. Four 3-light mullioned windows and below, a round-arched arcade with late C20 shopfronts and reglazed overlights. To left, a gable with a 4-light window and below, a late C20 chamfered entrance with sidelight. To left, a 3-storey block; 6 window range. To left, 4 Diocletian windows. To their right, a transomed window, then a canted stone oriel window, 5 lights. Above, 6 cross mullioned windows, 2 and 3 lights. Below, late C20 shopfronts. To right, a double gable with two 2-light round-headed windows and below, a single light window flanked by single 2-light mullioned windows, all with flat heads. South-west tower, 4 stages, has string courses and cornice. Lower 2 stages are canted, upper stages have double rebated angles. Ground level has to south and west, a round-headed single light window and between them, a flat-headed window, with linked impost and lintel band. Second stage has to south and west one cross casement above another, the upper ones round-headed. Third stage has a very narrow slit window on each side. Bell stage, to Hale's design, has a projection on each side with enriched incurving cheeks, and between them a round-headed bell opening with round head and heavily rusticated keystones. The tower is topped with a domed octagonal lantern with 4 openings. INTERIOR: main body has 5 bay round-arched arcades with square piers and wreaths in the spandrels, carrying a moulded and enriched aisle plate on scroll brackets. Segmental arched glazed panelled roof with patterned stained glass and wreathed medallions at the springing of the main ribs. East end has moulded segmental arch with screen, 1966. West end has gallery with coffered ceiling. Aisles are screened off to form side rooms. Fittings all 1966. WJ Hale, 1862-1929, designed a number of noteworthy schools and Nonconformist churches in Sheffield between 1893 and 1929. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 453; Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3555087340

External Links

• Victoria Hall, Sheffield at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7926745

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)