Description

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE HIGHFIELD PLACE
784-1/6/430 (North side)
28/06/73 St Barnabas House
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGHFIELD PLACE
Church of St Barnabas)

GV II

Church, now flats. 1876, by Flockton & Abbot. Converted 1990.
Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped
slate roofs with coped gables. Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: apsidal sanctuary and crypt, nave, aisles, south-west
tower, north-west porch.
EXTERIOR: plinth and buttresses. Windows are reglazed.
Apse has three 2-light pointed arched windows with
quatrefoils, on a sillband. Crypt has 3 flat-headed 2-light
windows. Nave west gable has a pointed arched recess with a
cusped round window at the head, and below it, two 2-light
pointed arched windows with quatrefoil heads, divided by a
major mullion.
Gabled north aisle, 5 bays, has corbel table and bays divided
by pilasters and buttresses. Four 2-light pointed arched
windows. To west, a shallow porch with steep pitched gable and
moulded pointed arched door. East gable has a blocked round
window and a coped gable stack. West gable has a graduated
3-light pointed arched window with hoodmould.
Similar south aisle, 4 bays, has four 2-light windows. East
gable has a blocked 2-light pointed arched window with a
blocked round window above.
Square south-west tower, 3 stages, has plinth, angle
buttresses, string course, corbel table and coped parapet with
corner pedestals and blind crosslets. To south-east, a shallow
square stair turret. Lower stage has to west, single lancet
with hoodmould. To south, a moulded pointed arched doorway
with single shafts and trefoils in the spandrels. Flat single
lancet to south, and slit lights to east and west. Bell stage
has on each side 2 rebated pointed arched openings with
louvres and linked billeted impost band.
INTERIOR not inspected.
(Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3508085671

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546680

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