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Christ Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Dore and Totley, Sheffield

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Latitude: 53.3257 / 53°19'32"N

Longitude: -1.5396 / 1°32'22"W

OS Eastings: 430762

OS Northings: 381071

OS Grid: SK307810

Mapcode National: GBR KYPZ.GK

Mapcode Global: WHCCQ.BN3T

Plus Code: 9C5W8FG6+75

Entry Name: Christ Church

Listing Date: 28 June 1973

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1247077

English Heritage Legacy ID: 456242

Also known as: Christ Church, Dore

ID on this website: 101247077

Location: Christ Church, Townhead, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S17

County: Sheffield

Electoral Ward/Division: Dore and Totley

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Sheffield

Traditional County: Derbyshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Dore Christ Church

Church of England Diocese: Sheffield

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Description



SHEFFIELD

SK3081SE CHURCH LANE, Dore
784-1/38/804 (East side)
28/06/73 Christ Church

GV II

Parish church. 1828, by Richard Furness. Choir vestry 1879.
Chancel 1895, by John Dodsley Webster. Coursed squared stone
and ashlar, with ashlar dressings and stone slate and Welsh
slate roofs. Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: chancel, vestries, nave, west tower, north porch.
EXTERIOR: quoins, diagonal buttresses topped with pinnacles.
2 bay chancel has sillband. East end has a 4-light panel
tracery window. To north, 2 single lancets. South-east vestry
has a canted corner with door and to east, a 3-light mullioned
window. To south, single and 2-light mullioned windows.
Crenellated south-west vestry has a pointed door to west and a
triangular headed 2-light window to south. Aisleless nave has
to west a single lancet and to east, two 2-light pointed arch
windows. North side has 2 similar windows flanked by single
lancets, and single lancet in east end. West end has on each
side a 2-light pointed arch window. West tower, 3 stages, has
string courses and crenellated parapet with 4 crocketed
pinnacles. First stage has, to west, a paired lancet with
triangular heads. Second stage has a blank clock dial to west
and a triangular headed window to south. Bell stage has a
double lancet opening on each side, with hoodmoulds. Above the
north and south ones, a clock.
Crenellated north porch has a double chamfered doorway with
bracket lamp above it.
INTERIOR has double chamfered chancel arch with shaft imposts
and Decorated style wooden screen, 1913, and to its right a
recess containing organ pipes. Chancel has arch braced king
post roof, and door to south. Nave has strutted queen post
roof and double doors at west end. North porch has double
chamfered doorway and 4 octagonal cast-iron posts.
FITTINGS include Decorated style wooden reredos and altar,
1933, and brass tripod lectern, 1876. C19 octagonal ashlar
pulpit and font, traceried stalls and cross frame benches. 7
stained glass windows, mid and late C19, east window 1903, 2
windows 1948.
Memorials include brass and wood war memorial plaque c1920.
(Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).


Listing NGR: SK3076281071


This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.

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