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SHEFFIELD

SK3588SE NURSERY STREET 784-1/16/560 (North East side) 28/06/73 New Testament Church of God and attached boundary wall (Formerly Listed as: NURSERY STREET Holy Trinity Church)

GV II

Church and attached boundary wall. 1848. By William Flockton. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, buttresses topped with gabled pinnacles with blind lancets, crenellated parapets and gables. Windows are mainly untraceried single lancets with roll moulded surrounds. Chancel, nave, west tower with flanking porches. Single bay chancel has to east a triple lancet with round shafts, and to north, a single window. In the south-east angle, a C19 brick lean-to addition with slate roof. Nave has 6 lancet windows on each side. Square west tower, 4 stages, has angle buttresses, string courses, corbel table and blind arcaded parapet. First stage has, to west, a roll moulded doorway with double shafts and above it, a small single lancet. Second stage has a single lancet on 3 sides. Third stage has a blind arcade on all sides. Bell stage has 3 single lancet bell openings on each side. Lean-to flanking porches have each a single lancet to west. To south, a single window. To north, a traceried panelled door. INTERIOR: chancel has moulded arch with double round shafts and hoodmould. Gabled roof. East end has a triple window with patterned stained glass. Below it, a platform and steps. North and south sides have single windows. Nave has arch braced queen post roof. Square ended gallery with Gothic tracery and cast-iron clustered columns with traceried brackets. At the west end, a pair of half-glazed doors with Gothic tracery. At the east end, on each side, a framed panelled enclosure forming office and vestry. West porch has stone dogleg stair with iron stick balusters and ramped wooden handrail. FITTINGS include late C19 traceried panelled octagonal font with clustered stem, and plain benches, mostly with square ends. Some have Gothic style ends. MEMORIALS include marble tablet, 1874, with pediment and columns, and Gothic style marble tablet with portrait medallion, 1897. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, a dwarf boundary wall, coursed squared stone with moulded coping, with 2 pairs of squat ashlar gate piers with pyramidal caps, and similar corner piers.

Listing NGR: SK3562988042

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• Wikidata Q26539175

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990