Wincobank Chapel
Wincobank Chapel
Upper Wincobank Undenominational Chapel on Wincobank Avenue, Sheffield, is a Grade II independent chapel and former day school, still without denominational affiliation.
- Location
- Wincobank, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Wincobank
- Address
- Wincobank Avenue, Wincobank, Yorkshire, S5 6BB
- Postcode
- S5 6BB
- Built
- 1841 and c.1870, with early 20th-century alterations; chapel use from 1905
- Denomination
- Independent
- Parish
- Upper Wincobank (undenominational)
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Gothic
- Materials
- Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs
- Grid reference
- SK 377 913
- Opening hours
- Always open on Tuesdays 10 to 1pm.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England lists the chapel and adjoining schoolroom as of 1841 and about 1870, with early twentieth-century alterations, paid for by the Rawson family of Wincobank Hall. The fabric is coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings, slate roofs and a truncated ridge stack. The T-plan, single-storey building has coped gables, a Gothic-arched west bell turret and stone-mullioned windows. The chapel interior has an arch-braced roof on corbels, a dais with wooden balustrade, nineteenth-century choir stalls and clergy desk, and an organ case of about 1914. Marble tablets of 1883 and 1887 commemorate members of the Rawson family. James Montgomery composed a hymn for the opening ceremony.
Chapel trustees record a first congregation in the coach house of Wincobank Hall in 1816. In 1841 Mary Ann Rawson and Emily Read commissioned the building as a day school; the Wincobank School Trust followed in 1880. When the school closed in 1905 one room was extended as the present undenominational chapel, whose independence is protected by Rawson’s 1850 deed of trust. A mezzanine was added to the schoolroom in 1980. The chapel remains volunteer-run and open to all.