Upper Chapel & Channing Hall (Unitarian)

Upper Chapel is set back from the road at the top of Norfolk Street. It has an attractive forecourt garden providing a place to rest in a busy city centre and which is home to three bronze statues by Sheffield sculptor George Fullard ARA (1923-73); 'Mother and Child', 'Angry Woman' and 'Running Woman'. The Chapel's Victorian interior provides a timeless place of peace and is home to a series of nine stained glass windows by Henry Holiday (1839-1927), in addition to other windows in the gallery, a magnificent three manual organ and an attractive painted ceiling. As the Fargate area became built up, the Chapel was turned around in the mid-19th Century, to face across fields, the walls raised and a gallery added. Along Pepper Alley, down the north side of the Chapel, the first brick dwelling in Sheffield once stood.

Linked to the Chapel, but also having its own separate entrance on Surrey Street, is Channing Hall. Designed by architects Flockton and Gibbs, it was completed in the Italianate style in 1882, the Foundation Stone laid by Margaret Jessop, daughter of Thomas Jessop, the Women's hospital benefactor. The hall can be accessed via the Chapels Hollis Building by an ornate spiral staircase, or by lift. Its walls are covered with glazed bricks and it has an impressive timber pitched roof. As well as being a busy Unitarian Church, the Chapel, blessed with superb acoustics, is very popular for concerts and recitals.

Timings & Tours

Friday 12 September:

1100-1530

Saturday 13 September:

1100-1530

Location & directions

Norfolk Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 2JD

Directions:

PLEASE BE AWARE: A BUS GATE OPERATES ON ARUNDEL GATE IF ENTERED FROM THE DIRECTION OF EYRE STREET. There is NO public on site parking at Upper Chapel on Norfolk Street but if you are travelling by car, Norfolk Street is accessed from the large Park Square Roundabout, up Commercial Street, through a set of traffic lights (Ponds Forge International Sports Centre and then Fitzalan Square on your left). Bear left into the first part of Arundel Gate. Get in right hand lane and filter right through the lights into Norfolk Street at which point the Crucible Theatre is on your left with the entrance to the Arundel Gate underground car park down slip road (Milk Street) immediately before it. Upper Chapel is on the right at at the top of Norfolk Street. Two large trees on the forecourt, opposite the Head of Steam bar.

Contact on day:

Premises Manager

Telephone number:

+447808064693

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:

Pre-booking not required

Accessibility details

Access to the Chapel's Gallery may be limited if busy. The Gallery must not be accessed by unaccompanied children. Stairs are involved both in accessing the Gallery and moving with in it. Wheelchair users can use either entrance. Please ask a steward to open the Chapel's right hand pair of doors for easy entrance if entering via Norfolk Street. The Chapel has a hearing loop facility. There is lift access to Channing Hall via either entrance, in addition to the spiral staircase. THERE ARE NO PARKING FACILITIES FOR VISITORS.

Additional information

Once again this year, coffee, tea and scrumptious cakes available to purchase, provided by the Unitarian Women's League. There will be live, background music performances at intervals in the Chapel which may include recitals on the fine Wadsworth Keats organ and the grand piano. The performances do not affect the flow of your visit. In addition to material on the history of the Chapel and Channing Hall, there will be an eclectic mix of exhibitors including The Dickens Fellowship, The Writers Workshop, Sheffield Visual Arts Group and Abbeydale Rotary's Sheffield Young Artists.

Max no of people per tour:

6

Est. tour duration:

0 hour(s) 25 minute(s)

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