Description

SHEFFIELD

SK38NW VINCENT ROAD
784-1/5/737 (West side)
05/01/93 Haqqani House Sufi Centre and
adjoining boundary wall and gates
(Formerly Listed as:
VINCENT ROAD
Former Christian Science Church and
adjoining boundary walls and gates)

II

Christian Science church, now Sufi centre, and adjoining
boundary walls and railings. c1890. Red brick with moulded
brick dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs. Gothic
Revival style.
EXTERIOR: plinth, string courses, stepped eaves, coped gables
with finials. 2 storeys plus basement. 10 x 10 windows.
Triangular corner site.
Round corner tower, 3 storeys, has machicolated eaves and
conical roof topped with a round wooden bell turret with
latticework lead roof. Graduated triple lancet on each floor,
the larger upper windows with linked hoodmoulds. Each triple
lancet is flanked by single lancets in the same style.
Right return has a projecting gable with graduated triple
lancet, and below, 3 flat-headed windows. On either side, 2
single lancets, and below, to right, 2 windows. To left, a
doorway with double doors and 2 small lancets above it.
Beyond, to right, a hipped bay with 2 double lancets, with
staggered lights and hoodmoulds. Below, 4 windows. Beyond
again, a hipped porch, approached by external stairs with
spearhead railing, with pointed arched glazed door and
fanlight under a hoodmould.
Left return is of the same design, with 2 ground floor windows
to the right of the projecting bay.
INTERIOR: largely original interior has single space with arch
braced roof. At the front, matchboard dais, rectangular pulpit
and choir stalls, and above and behind them, organ case. At
the rear, a panelled gallery. Below it, 2 doors.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, a brick boundary wall with
stepped chamfered ashlar coping, topped with spearhead
railing. At the rounded corner, a pair of square panelled gate
piers with moulded caps and wrought-iron gate. Adjoining the
steps to the porches, a similar gateway.

Listing NGR: SK3484285351

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560876

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas