Upper Chapel & Channing Hall (Unitarian)
Norfolk Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 2JD
See our display on the 2024 theme of Routes - Networks - Connections. Upper Chapel, built in 1700, is set back from the road at the top of Norfolk Street. It has an attractive forecourt garden which is home to three Bronze statues by Sheffield sculptor George Fullard ARA (1923-73); a mother and child, an angry woman and a running woman. Inside the Chapel, in addition to other stained glass windows, is a series of nine windows by Henry Holiday, a magnificent 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 and a gallery was added. Linked to the Chapel, but also having its own separate entrance on Surrey Street, is Channing Hall, completed in the Italianate style in 1882 and which can be accessed via the Chapels Hollis Building by an ornate spiral staircase, or by lift. Channing Hall's walls are covered with glazed bricks and it has an impressive timber pitched roof.
Norfolk Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 2JD
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. Care must be taken by all visitors in all areas. 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 for spoken word and acoustic music. There is lift access to Channing Hall via either entrance, in addition to the spiral staircase.
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. These do not affect the flow of your visit.