Trail:
- Home
- Cities
- Sheffield
- W. J. Hale: The Work of a...
- Crookes Congregational Church
- a
- a
- a
- High Contrast, Text-Only Version
- Printer Friendly Version
- Click here to tip a friend about this page
Crookes Congregational Church
- Click to enlarge
- Sheffield, Crookes Congregational, Church, Springvale Road
Crookes Congregational Church opened in 1906. Octagonal, it was designed to ensure that everyone in the congregation could see and hear the preacher, vital in nonconformity where preaching was the focus of worship. There was a tradition of octagonal chapels within nonconformity, a number having been built in the eighteenth century and the idea was revived to a limited extent in the 1870s. Hale made full use of the sloping corner site, emphasising the mass of the building with battered (sloping) buttresses. The great open space of the interior was preserved in a skilful conversion to offices in 1989 by the architects BondGlossary Term Bryan Partnership for their own occupation.
- Click to enlarge
- Sheffield, Crookes Congregational, Church, Springvale Road
Buttresses pass through some of the windows, a detail used by some of the most avant-garde architects of the day such as W. D. Caroe. As with St Luke's,Northfield Road there is carving of a Tree of Life and of pomegranates.
Glossary
- Bond
The pattern of long sides (stretchers) and short ends (headers) produced by laying bricks in a particular way. English bond: with alternate courses of headers and stretchers exposed. English garden wall bond: with one course of headers for every three or more courses of stretchers. Flemish bond: with alternating stretchers and headers showing. Header bond: with only the headers exposed. Stack bond: non-structural brick facing in vertical (i.e. non-overlapping) tiers. Stretcher bond: with only the stretchers showing.
Last updated: Monday, 26th January 2009