Description

SHEFFIELD

SK38NW CROOKESMOOR ROAD
784-1/5/235 (South East side)
04/09/89 Unitarian Church and adjoining
boundary wall and bridge
(Formerly Listed as:
CROOKESMOOR ROAD
Unitarian Church and attached
railings)

II

Unitarian church, adjoining boundary wall and bridge. c1900.
Red brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with a side
wall stack. Perpendicular Revival style. Buttressed shouldered
coped gables.
PLAN: cruciform plan, built on a steeply sloping site so that
the west entrance to the church is at ground level, and a
community hall and other business rooms are below and to east.
EXTERIOR: east end has a flat-roofed 2 storey projection with
two 2-light mullioned windows and below, a canted bay window
with 3 lights. Chancel east gable has a 5-light pointed arched
panel tracery window, and below it a 4-light cross mullioned
window with 2 major mullions. Transepts have 5-light pointed
arch panel tracery windows and below them, large
cross-mullioned windows. Both transepts have lower gabled
wings to east, with irregular fenestration. Nave clerestory, 3
bays, has shallow arched recesses with large segment-headed
2-light Perpendicular windows. Buttressed crenellated aisles
have 4 traceried windows and below them, large cross mullioned
windows to the community hall, with basement windows below.
West front has a low brick wall topped with railings, and
square brick piers. This is linked to the church by a
segment-arched bridge with moulded ashlar coped parapets, with
steps leading to the churchyard. Projecting crenellated
entrance porch has a cross finial. Central segmental ashlar
entrance arch has carved bosses and 2 doors set at an angle.
Above and behind, a 5-light pointed arched window with panel
tracery. Above again, the chequerboarded gable has a tiny
lancet.
INTERIOR has segment-headed nave arcades and shallow plaster
vault. Tall dado panelling and original wooden fittings.
Disused at time of survey.

Listing NGR: SK3349987447

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560897

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)