Description

SHEFFIELD

SK3386NE RUTLAND PARK
784-1/27/638 (North side (off))
Gymnasium and music room at No.10
Sheffield High School for Girls

GV II

Formerly known as: Trinity Congregational Church and adjoining
Sunday School NEWBOULD LANE.
Congregational church and adjoining Sunday school, now
gymnasium and music room. c1870, Sunday school dated 1929.
Converted late C20. Coursed squared stone with ashlar
dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with decorative
ridge tiles and coped gables. Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: apsidal east end, crypt, south-east tower, transepts,
aisleless nave, lobby and west porch.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, moulded eaves. Canted east end has
string course and angle buttresses. 3 cusped round windows,
and below, a 2-light stone mullioned window flanked by single
light windows, all with shouldered heads. Crypt has 6 reglazed
windows divided by buttresses. To north, a small lean-to
projection with a single shouldered window.
Square south-east tower, adjoining transept, has patterned
slate pyramidal roof with finial, moulded eaves and large
coped side wall stack. Blank middle stage, and small bell
stage above string course, with 3 small cusped openings on 3
sides. Lower stage, integral with the transept, has 2
shouldered windows and below, crypt door with overlight, and
to right, 2 stepped shouldered stair windows.
South transept has a 2-light pointed arch window with a wheel
window above it. Below, 3 pointed arched openings, each with a
3-light window, and to left, a cusped headed double door. To
west, a 2-light pointed arch window.
North transept has a pointed arched recess containing a
traceried wheel window and below, 2 plain 2-light pointed arch
windows. To east and west, a further 2-light window with plate
tracery.
Nave has on either side four 2-light pointed arch windows with
plate tracery, the west ones blocked and altered. West end has
a similar 5-light with plate tracery and hoodmould.
Transverse lean-to lobby has chamfered coped parapet and end
walls forming coped buttresses. Central west porch has coped
gable flanked by gabled angle buttresses topped with pinnacles
and spires. Moulded segment-arched doorway with single marble
shafts and hoodmould, and double board doors. Beyond, on
either side, a single small lancet, the right one with
louvres.
To left, adjoining Sunday school in Tudor Revival style.
INTERIOR: moulded arch to east end, with hoodmould and
enriched impost band. Apse has 3 windows with hoodmoulds and
sillband with corbels. Nave and transepts have principal
rafter roofs with principal rafters in the form of strutted
wooden girders, with false hammer beams and moulded stone
corbels. At the west corners of the crossing, a shaft respond
on a corbel. South transept has to east a pointed arched door.
Nave west end has 2 panelled doors. No fittings, memorials or
stained glass remain.

Listing NGR: SK3357586634

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560996

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