Description

SHEFFIELD

SK38SW BEAUCHIEF ABBEY LANE
784-1/9/66 (East side)
01/05/52 Church of St Thomas a Becket and
remains of Beauchief Abbey Church
(Formerly Listed as:
BEAUCHIEF DRIVE
(East side)
Church of St Thomas a Becket &
remains of Beauchief Abbey Church)

GV II*

Remains of Premonstratensian abbey, now a church. c1175 and
1662, restored C19. Founded as an abbey by Robert Fitzranulph,
dissolved 1536. Church established and remains restored by
Edward Pegge. Nave, west tower, and attached remains of walls.
Coursed rubble and ashlar with stone slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: gabled nave has chamfered plinth and incomplete
string course to north. East end has a 4-light pointed arched
window with intersecting tracery and hoodmould. South side has
a near-central round-headed C12 doorway, reglazed to form a
window. Attached to the south-east corner, a 7m length of
consolidated wall approx 3m high. Truncated west tower has a
moulded plinth, gabled angle buttresses and pyramidal roof
behind low parapet. To west, a reglazed early C14, 5-light
pointed arch window with rebated reveal and hoodmould. Below,
moulded Early English style doorway, its shafts missing, with
C20 double doors and glazing bar overlight. To north, a reset
C12 moulded doorway. To south, reset moulded C14 doorway, 3
orders. Tower north side has an ogee headed doorway with ogee
hoodmould and finial. East side has a large pointed arched
window with moulded head, covered by the nave.
INTERIOR has strutted queen post roof, C19. To west, double
chamfered tower arch with clustered piers and chamfered
responds. Cross beam ceiling under the tower. C17 box pews,
panelled octagonal oak pulpit with reading desk and clerk's
pew below. C19 octagonal font. Early C19 round-headed psalm
board with coat of arms. Mid C19 stained glass window.
Memorials include marble and slate tablet with figure, 1846,
by Henry Weekes to Elizabeth Burnell. Pedimented marble and
slate tablets, 1679 and 1774.
Beauchief Abbey is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West
Riding: London: 1967-: 475-6; Beauchief Abbey - a short
history & description: Robinson HC: Sheffield).

Listing NGR: SK3334381923

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Beauchief Abbey at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4877428

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Recommended Books

• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990