Sir Frederick Mappin Building
The Sir Frederick Mappin Building, or more familiarly the Mappin Building, is a
Grade II listed building[1][2] fronting onto Mappin Street, Sheffield, England, part of the University of Sheffield. The building and street (formerly Charlotte Street) are named after Sir Frederick Mappin (1821–1910), the so-called Father of Sheffield University.[3]
Departments
The Mappin Building is in an area known as the St George's Complex (after the
IT centre, an open-access computer centre available to all university students during office hours. To the rear of the building is the Sir Robert Hadfield Building, home to two other departments: Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering. The smaller Amy Johnson
Building houses Automatic Control and Systems Engineering. The south wing of the Mappin Street frontage of the main building also housed the Department Of Geology until the department's closure in 1990.
History
The oldest part of the building is the former Technical School, the earliest purpose-built building for what is now the University. Designed by
floor numbering
scheme: the main entrance is on floor D, with floors A,B, C and C* existing at lower levels in various areas of the building, and floors E, F and G lying above.
Notes and references
- Notes
- ^ a b Historic England. "Mappin Building and attached railings (Grade II) (1271260)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
- ^ "Mappin Building and Attached Railings". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
- ^ ISBN 1 904 022 01 4.
- ^ Named after John Carr MBE, died 1992, owner of the John Carr Group of companies (timber trade)
- Bibliography
- Sheffield, Ruth Harman and John Minnis, Pevsner Architectural Guides
53°22′55″N 1°28′45″W / 53.38196°N 1.47929°W