1. The History
Located between Cupola and Copper Street in the Netherthorpe region of Sheffield, it was originally built as a school, St Jude's Moorfields Church School, Work started on its construction in 1844. The foundation stone of the church was laid on 29th October, 1849 by the donor of the site John Gaunt esq. of Darnall, in commemoration of his sister Judith who was born on St. Jude's Day in 1787 and died September 27th 1846 aged 58 years. This church was erected voluntarily by contributions aided by grants from her majesty's church building commissioners, the Incorporated and Co-operative Societies.
After standing more than a year, on Sunday, November 7th, 1852, when roofed and nearly finished, the tower of the church fell down, owing to some defect in the foundations, almost totally destroying the church. Work had to then be done from the foundations up-wards, after the necessary funds had been raised. The current church cost about £2,400 to build in an Early English style, on a different plan from the original church that fell down. It was consecrated on June 5th, 1855 and completed circa 1858. The purpose of the school was to serve one of the ‘slum parish’ in Sheffield. External examination of the modest building shows that has been extensively altered over the years, but some of the original architecture remains in tact.
St. Judes back in 1990:
St.Judes by HughieDW, on Flickr
Later it renamed St. Judes Anglican Church. More recently in 1980 it became Assembly of God Pentecostal Church, only to close in 1999. Since then it has remained empty and abandoned although plans have been afoot for some time to turn it into apartments. These have probably now gone out the window due to a recent fire that destroyed the roof of a side wing and left the roof of the main hall damaged too.
2. The Explore
A revisit as I’ve covered this place before. It’s still a walk in but now the place will go down hill rapidly due to a recent fire. One end of the roof of the main building is damaged which has just about sealed the building’s fate.
3. The Pictures
This is the bit where the fire started:
img9694 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img9695 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img9697 by HughieDW, on Flickr
The main roof is quite badly damaged:
img9705 by HughieDW, on Flickr
It won’t get fixed and water ingress will put paid to yet another place in Sheffield:
img9706 by HughieDW, on Flickr
A quick peek inside:
img9699 by HughieDW, on Flickr
Round to the front:
img9700 by HughieDW, on Flickr
From here the roof looks OK:
img9701 by HughieDW, on Flickr
And round the side:
img9702 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img9704 by HughieDW, on Flickr
And in…
img9200 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img9703 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img9207 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img9204 by HughieDW, on Flickr
A sea of pigeon-poo awaits in the main hall:
img9193 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img9195 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img9191 by HughieDW, on Flickr
And the odd bit of graff:
img9184 by HughieDW, on Flickr
img9183 by HughieDW, on Flickr
Located between Cupola and Copper Street in the Netherthorpe region of Sheffield, it was originally built as a school, St Jude's Moorfields Church School, Work started on its construction in 1844. The foundation stone of the church was laid on 29th October, 1849 by the donor of the site John Gaunt esq. of Darnall, in commemoration of his sister Judith who was born on St. Jude's Day in 1787 and died September 27th 1846 aged 58 years. This church was erected voluntarily by contributions aided by grants from her majesty's church building commissioners, the Incorporated and Co-operative Societies.
After standing more than a year, on Sunday, November 7th, 1852, when roofed and nearly finished, the tower of the church fell down, owing to some defect in the foundations, almost totally destroying the church. Work had to then be done from the foundations up-wards, after the necessary funds had been raised. The current church cost about £2,400 to build in an Early English style, on a different plan from the original church that fell down. It was consecrated on June 5th, 1855 and completed circa 1858. The purpose of the school was to serve one of the ‘slum parish’ in Sheffield. External examination of the modest building shows that has been extensively altered over the years, but some of the original architecture remains in tact.
St. Judes back in 1990:
Later it renamed St. Judes Anglican Church. More recently in 1980 it became Assembly of God Pentecostal Church, only to close in 1999. Since then it has remained empty and abandoned although plans have been afoot for some time to turn it into apartments. These have probably now gone out the window due to a recent fire that destroyed the roof of a side wing and left the roof of the main hall damaged too.
2. The Explore
A revisit as I’ve covered this place before. It’s still a walk in but now the place will go down hill rapidly due to a recent fire. One end of the roof of the main building is damaged which has just about sealed the building’s fate.
3. The Pictures
This is the bit where the fire started:
The main roof is quite badly damaged:
It won’t get fixed and water ingress will put paid to yet another place in Sheffield:
A quick peek inside:
Round to the front:
From here the roof looks OK:
And round the side:
And in…
A sea of pigeon-poo awaits in the main hall:
And the odd bit of graff:
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