Beauchief Abbey
Beauchief Abbey
Beauchief Abbey on Beauchief Abbey Lane, Sheffield, is a Grade II* remnant of a Premonstratensian house, now the Church of St Thomas à Becket, a liberty within the Diocese of Sheffield.
- Location
- Beauchief, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Beauchief
- Address
- Beauchief Abbey Lane, Beauchief, Yorkshire, S8 7BD
- Postcode
- S8 7BD
- Built
- c.1175 Premonstratensian abbey; church established 1662; C19 restoration
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Diocese
- Sheffield
- Parish
- Beauchief Abbey (Liberty)
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Medieval abbey remains adapted as a chapel
- Materials
- Coursed rubble and ashlar with stone slate roofs
- Grid reference
- SK 333 819
- Opening hours
- Please contact us to arrange a visit.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England records remains of a Premonstratensian abbey, now a church, of about 1175 and 1662, restored in the nineteenth century. Robert Fitzranulph founded the house (dissolved 1536). Edward Pegge established the church and restored the remains: a nave, truncated west tower and attached wall fragments of coursed rubble and ashlar with stone slate roofs. A twelfth-century south doorway is reglazed as a window; reset Norman and fourteenth-century doorways survive on the tower. The interior has a nineteenth-century queen-post roof, seventeenth-century box pews and a panelled octagonal oak pulpit. Listed Grade II* on 1 May 1952 (NHLE 1271291); the abbey precinct is a scheduled monument.
The house was dedicated to St Mary and St Thomas the Martyr as a daughter of Welbeck. Since 1932 the building has belonged to the people of Sheffield rather than the Church of England, with worship continuing in the Diocese of Sheffield.