St Paul's Church, Sheffield
- See also St Paul's Church and Centre, Norton Lees, Sheffield and Sheffield Cathedral, which is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.
| St Paul's Church | |
|---|---|
Church | |
| Completed | 1721 |
| Capacity | 1,200 |
St Paul's Church, Sheffield, was a
Sheffield Parish Church
.
By 1700,
Anglican place of worship was required to house a growing congregation. A site on the southern edge of the town was selected, facing on to Pinstone Lane (later redeveloped as Pinstone Street). A public subscription was raised, and St Paul's was largely completed by 1721. The church was built in the Baroque style, with the street frontage dominated by an Italianate tower.[1] The chapel had seating for 1,200 people.[2]
A dispute over
Act of Parliament, following which, it was consecrated to Saint Paul on 22 May 1740.[2]
A
Francis Legatt Chantrey, was added around this time.[2]
Following the trend of supposed slum clearance in the 1930s, the church's congregation dwindled, and St Paul's closed in 1937. It was demolished the following year, and the St Paul's Gardens were laid out on the site, later becoming known as the Peace Gardens.[1] The organ was removed to All Saints in Wingerworth,[4] while the Chantrey memorial was moved to Sheffield Cathedral.[1] Many of the remains in the burial ground were relocated to Abbey Lane Cemetery.[6]
Some of the old stone was repurposed by the contractor who demolished the church, and can still be seen in a row of houses built in suburbs west of the city. [7]
References
- ^ a b c d Ruth Harman and John Minnis, Pevsner Architectural Guides: Sheffield
- ^ a b c George Lawton, Collectio rerum ecclesiasticarum de diœcesi Eboracensi
- ^ David Lunn, Chapters towards a history of the Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Paul, Sheffield
- ^ a b All Saints, Wingerworth Archived 24 January 2001 at archive.today
- ^ Sheffield Archives: Bishop's Transcripts
- ISBN 978-1-84383-693-3.
- ^ "St Pauls Church Sheffield 1720 - 1938".