SHEFFIELD HERITAGE OPEN DAYS 10th – 13th SEPTEMBER 2015 Welcome to Heritage Open Days Sept 10–13 2015

This is the 21st Year of Heritage Open Days in the UK. All over the country buildings and places rarely open to the public, will open free of charge, often entirely through the work of volunteers, to share walks, talks, exhibitions, refreshments and enthusiasm.

Here is Sheffield’s amazing programme for 2015. As you will see many Sheffield groups, are inviting you to meet them to share their knowledge and enthusiasm about our city’s heritage. The Trust thanks them all on your behalf.

PLEASE NOTE information is subject to change and the FULL details of directions, access, refreshments, age restrictions etc. can only be found online. This booklet ONLY contains brief details of all 54 official participants- the dates and times when they are open, and also information about booking requirements.

Go online for full details and to Design Your Day Sheffield events day-by-day: www.heritageopendays.org.uk/directory OR www.welcometosheffield.co.uk/hods Sheffield HODs. map: www.sheffieldcivictrust.org.uk/hod

Sheffield Civic Trust is a membership charity which champions all good design and aims to stimulate public debate about the quality of design of buildings and public spaces in this City. www.sheffieldcivictrust.org.uk Keep in touch about Heritage Open Days 2015 @SheffCivicTrust @VisitSheffield

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Our thanks for photographic work to: Kate Cooper: www.katecooperphotography.com.

Disclaimer: While care has been taken with this leaflet, Sheffield Civic Trust cannot accept responsibility for errors and omissions. 2 Aston, William Layne Reading Room Christ Church Pitsmoor & Vicarage S26 2AN S3 9AQ Display of local history documents, maps and Fine early Victorian church built 1851. Browse photographs. Browse our local albums, chronicling our registers of births, marriages & deaths. both the history of this community & lives of local Contemplate our WW1 memorial – remembering servicemen in 2 World Wars. 300 lost local Pitsmoor folk. Rare chance to see Fri 1800-2000; Sat 1000-1600 our Georgian vicarage. booking not required Sat 1400-1700

BBC Radio Sheffield Crookes “Bustle Walk” S1 4RS Crookes Rd, S10 Meet journalists & producers to sample our Discover role Sheffield played in fashion dress technology & learn how programmes are made, try phenomenon – the bustle. Ladies in traditionally reading a news bulletin, watch live radio on-air. Not made bustles lead walk, sharing both story of suitable for under 12s. Crookes in Victorian times & history of the bustle. Sat & Sun 1000-1700 Sat - 1000 & 1400 Bruce Funnell 0114 273 1177 Anne 07942 967463 www.eventbrite.com [email protected] booking essential booking essential

Beauchief Abbey Cupola Contemporary Art Gallery S8 0EL S6 1TD Used for services since 1170 to current times. Open daily to visitors to enjoy building, sculpture Beautiful parkland, Abbey dedicated to Thomas a garden & fountains and learn history of significant Becket. Soak up history of Medieval tower, tranquil contemporary art gallery. Children activities. Also 2 Chapel & 17C box pews & remains of monastic tours of premises each day. cloisters. Thurs-Sat 1000-1800 Tours 1100&1500 each day Thurs-Sat 1100-1600, Sun 1300-1600 Karen Sherwood 0114 2852665 booking not required [email protected] booking preferred

Bishop’s House Curzon Cinema S8 9BE S1 2PF Friends of Bishop’s House welcome you to Come and explore our impressive Grade 2 listed charming Tudor timber-frame house & small premises, formerly part of The Sheffield Banking museum. Trails for children to enjoy. Corporation. Book a tour which includes the Sat, Sun 1000-1600 old bank vaults & our state of the art projection booking not required equipment Thurs-Sat 0900-1200 Tours on the hour Broomhall Centre: Exhibition and Book Grace Clarke 0114 3411405 Launch [email protected] booking essential S10 2FD Learn about our vibrant community and The Cutler’s Hall, Sheffield surrounding historic area gathered through the Our S1 1HG Broomhall Heritage Project. Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire (since 1638). Sat 1300-1600 Discovery trail 1430 Explore the Hall (Grade 2 listed building) & our May Seo 7761015386 [email protected] unique collection of beautiful silverware spanning booking preferred each year from 1773-2014. Sat 1000-1600 Sat - various times Cementation Furnace Tour booking not required S3 7BD Curator - led tour of only complete undamaged The Electric Works Cementation Furnance left in Britain! Grade 2 S1 2BJ listed, built 1848 by local steel firm & operated Opened 2009 - come & explore our famous throughout 2nd World War until 1951. No children building. Cutting-edge modern office space with under 5 years. huge indoor helter-skelter! Home to creative Thurs 1100 & 1400 companies, animators, film-makers Events & Mrkting 0114 2010610 Sun 1100-1500 [email protected] booking preferred Tours every half hour booking not required

3 Freeman College, Merlin Theatre Tour Madina Mosque S11 9AH S8 0ZU Enjoy tour of Merlin theatre now refurbished by Guided tours explaining architectural features & Freeman College & generous charitable support daily use for prayers, children’s education, Eid & after serious flood damage. Neighbourhood funerals. Opportunity to experience prayers. All resource & showcase for students of Brantwood questions welcome. Specialist School Sun 1100-1500 Tour Sat 1100 booking not required booking not required (but 30 max) Nether Edge Local History Group Walk Freeman College, Ruskin Mill Trust S7 1PE S1 2NG Walk around parts of Nether Edge looking at Specialist College, curriculum combines practical cultural history of area. Involves discussing skills & therapeutic education in 19C Sterling buildings & houses that were homes of artists, Works. Expert-led tour of manufacturing facilities. authors and musicians who lived in the area. Crafts demonstrated. Try spoon-forging! Children Fri 1330 welcome booking not required Sat 1100-1600 (Admission talk 1130) Tours Sat 1100,1230 & 1400 Park Hill Estate booking not required (but 20 max) S2 5PY Exhibition & Presentations at Community Centre & Grenoside Reading Room 2 Tours of Estate. Park Hill is largest Grade 2 listed S35 8QU building in UK (1000 council house units). Learn Grade 2 listed, former Schoolroom built 18 Century, about refurbishment & vision for future. restored as Heritage centre for community. Enjoy Thurs 1000-1500 Tours 1030-1200 & 1300-1500 our exhibition and artifacts “The History of Health in booking not required (but 20 max) Grenoside and District”. Thurs 1000-1600, Fri 1300-1600, Sat 1000-1500, Portland Works Sun 1300-1600 Thurs 1930 (Talk) S2 4SJ Successful community-financed renovation project, Horn Handle Works ‘From 1897 to the bought in 2013. See our impressive building with Present Day’ historic cutlery workshops where first stainless S11 8BU steel knives made. Learn about progress of Tour the Works and view display of horn handles renovation and our current creative workshop on loan from Hawley Collection. Discover history tenants. of Little Sheffield & transformation into Regather Fri 1700-1900 Sat 1000-1200 Works, still grounded in tradition of Little Mesters booking not required Tour Sat 1100-1300 booking not required Psalter Lane “Who lived on Psalter Lane in Sheffield?” Kelham Island Museum ‘Behind the scenes S11 8FT at Hawley Tool Collection’ Head to Brincliffe. Join us for walk along S3 8RY this ancient ‘salt road’ to the Pennines & learn Tour accesses 3 areas of Collection not usually about the history of houses and folk who lived in open to public,from largest Saw collection in world, them. Not suitable for under-15s precision measurement instruments made in Sun 1030 -1230 Sheffield, & mystery objects! NB. Not suitable for booking not required children under 12 Sun 1100-1255 & 1330-1500 Judith Smith 0114 2010770 [email protected] booking essential Remember when planning your day, please check online for details. See page 2 of this booklet.

4 Sheffield Assay Office ‘The history and Sheffield Centre ‘A Look at Sheffield’s work of Sheffield Assay Office’ Victorian City Centre’ S6 2AN S1 2HH Join us for an interesting illustrated talk about Fascinating guided walk around heart of Sheffield history and work of the Sheffield Assay Office, inc. led by Valerie Bayliss of Victorian Society. the Sheffield hallmark & our analytical services, & Discover the buildings which remain from the city’s take a tour of the facilities. Event not suitable for development in 19 Century. Event not suitable for children under 14. children under 14. Fri 1000 - 1230 Sun 1030-1230 Emma Paragreen 0114 2312121 booking essential (max 25 per tour) [email protected] Valerie Bayliss 0114 230 7693 booking essential [email protected]

Sheffield (CofE) ‘Traditional 1930s Tea Dance & Sheffield Past and Present’ Vintage Fair S1 1HA S1 2JA Costumed heritage day. Family fun. Medieval Enjoy vintage fair in foyer. Join us for a 1930s Tea tournament, music, dance, falconry, working Dance in our beautiful art deco room OR join a tour craftspeople . Bell Tower tour, ring those bells! to glimpse behind the scenes at the City Hall. Chapter House tour, stained glass tells story of Sat 1100 – 1600 Sheffield 0114 2 789 789 [email protected] Sat 1100-1600 booking required (max 30 per tour) booking not required Sheffield Friday Night Ride Church of St Marie RC (start at Sheffield Tap) S1 2JB S1 2BP 4 Amazing Days-Join us to celebrate our 165th Have fun on Friday night ride - setting out from anniversary. Discover our fascinating history, Sheffield Tap on a cycle ride to some of this year’s stories and treasures – ‘Hidden Gems’ Tour, venues to celebrate Heritage Open Days. organ demonstration, family trails, craft activities, N.B. Check all rules of ride at www.sfnr.org.uk/ dressing boxes, talks, exhibitions, tours & more! rules-of-the-sheffield-fnr Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun 1000-1800 Thurs 1530-1630 Fri 1830-2200 (Recital), Sat 1430-1530 ‘Hidden Gems (max 20) no booking required - check ride rules online booking not required Sheffield General Cemetery Sheffield Cathedral Church of St Marie S11 8NT (RC) ‘165 Years in the Heart of Sheffield’ Victorian cemetery beautiful green setting. ‘Meet’ S1 2PA famous forebears or victims of poisoning, on our Fascinating talk about 165 years of ‘St Marie’s history tours, join popular Geology Walk, Chapel Church in Sheffield’ by author Deacon Bill Burleigh restoration on view for 1st time, family nature trails at Houlden Hall, Norfolk Row, S1. “Secret origins to & craft activities thriving present day.” Sun 1200-1600 Fri 1530 no booking required

Sheffield Cathedral Church of St Marie (RC) Printing Patterns S2 1UJ Free family fun Saturday designing and making Tudor Manor lodge in urban meadow setting. Meet your own stamps to create prints/patterns inspired historic characters eg. Bess of Hardwick & famous by art and design features of Cathedral. Workshop prisoner, Mary Queen of Scots. Children activities by Sheffield artist Kim Bevan. on theme of famous ‘Talbot’ hounds & charity Dog Sat 1330-1600 Show (dogs welcome for today only!) booking preferred Sun 1100-1600 Tours Sun 1130, 1300 & 1430 [email protected] no booking required (but max 25 per tour)

5 Sheffield Pub Heritage Walk St James’ Norton (start at Fagan’s) S8 8JQ S1 4BS Dating from 12Century, beautiful church in lovely Short walking tour of some of CAMRA’s ‘’s setting. Church has connections with sculptor, Sir Real Heritage Pubs’ with author Dave Pickersgill, Francis Chantrey. Restoration work in mediaeval starting at Fagans. Not suitable for under-18s. nave in progress. Sun 1400-1530 Sat 1100-1500 Sun 1145-1500 Dave Pickersgill https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ sheffield-heritage-pub-walk-tickets-17422980604 St John the Evangelist Church, booking essential Hoylandswaine S36 7JQ Sheffield Tap Small, peaceful, Victorian Church. Helpers on hand S1 2BP to explain recently uncovered and restored mural Edwardian waiting/dining by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope of Cawthorne rooms, refurbished, original features, now pub and stained glass by Burne-Jones, manufactured & microbrewery. Share your memories with us. by William Morris Talks & tours daily - details on fb or http://www. Fri 1100-1600 Sun 1200-1600 sheffieldtap.com/. Celebration ‘HODs’ beer Thurs 1100 - 2300, Fri & Sat 1100 - 0000, St. Leonard’s Church, Dinnington Sun 1100 - 2300 S25 2PL Tour details see http://www.sheffieldtap.com Attractive 18C Church with wonderful glass & wood no booking required (but 12 max) ‘Miners Memorial Screen’ dedicated to miners who lost their lives in local pits. Display of Community memories, artefacts and photos of 2nd WW and S1 2HH VE Day. Sat 0930-1400 Sun 1045-1300 Open on Sunday for tours of this Grade one listed building including the Reception Suite and Council St Mary’s Church, Walkley Chamber S6 3RX Sun 1000 - 1600 Visitors can wander in to the church, explore the no booking required (but max 20 per tour) interior and view a display about the church history. Refreshments will also be available Sat 1000-1300 Workshop S11 2YE St Nicholas Church, High Bradfield Dating back to 1500s, still operating until 1930s, ‘Every Picture Tells A Story’ see restored waterwheel & machinery in action & S6 6LG hear story of lives of Sheffield knifegrinders beside Beautiful 15C building commended by Simon the River Porter Jenkins, set in stunning Sheffield Peak District. Sat 1100 - 1500 Sun 1100 - 1500 Fascinating, mainly 19C, stained glass with 2 no booking required guided tours, and medieval woodcarving. Sat 1030-1600 Tours Sat 1100, 1400 & 1500 St Catherine of Siena Church no booking required S13 8NA Visit acclaimed 20C Church by architect, Basil St Nicholas Church, Local History Walks Spence (designer of ) Also S6 6LG large figure of Christ on bell tower by sculptor Guided walks looking at old buildings and Norman Ronald Pope. Motte & Bailey, and Castle Hills. Meet at church Thurs 1000 - 1330 Fri 1000 - 1330 gates for the walks which last about 1 hour each Sat 1030 & 1330 St Cuthbert’s Church Malcolm Nunn 0114 2337463 [email protected] S5 6UJ booking essential Discover Church’s history and admire stained glass by A. J.Davies, one of finest stained glass St Paul’s Church, Parson Cross artists of the Arts & Crafts period in Britain. Share S5 9JH excitement of visit from Bishop of Durham to speak Discover St Paul’s - opened January 1959 and about St Cuthbert Grade 2 listed is regarded as one of Basil Spence’s Sat 1000-1600 Bishop’s Talk 1100 finest small churches. no booking required Fri 1100 - 1600

6 Upper Chapel S10 3BU S1 2JD Elegant Victorian building built by Edward Vickers. Impressive city centre Chapel, built 1700, Henry The ‘Tapton Experience’ - guided tour - history of Holliday stained glass, magnificent organ & Tapton site over 3 centuries, from Shore Family attractive ceiling. Also Channing Hall ornate spiral (related to Florence Nightingale), through Vickers’ staircase, walls covered with painted bricks & steel and Wilson’s snuff to present day. ornate wooden pitched roof. Fri between 1100-1500 Fri 1100 -1500 Sat 1100-1500 Heather Holiday 0114 2660051 no booking required [email protected] booking essential (max 20 per tour) Upper Wincobank Chapel & Iron Age Hillfort Theatre in Sheffield ‘A Pocket History of S5 6BB Sheffield Theatre Walk and Talk’ Victorian non-denom. Chapel/school founded by 2 S1 1DA inspiring women. Still in use. See archives & oral Fascinating guided tour to sites of former City history films. Victorian gadget collection – children centre theatres inc Assembly Rooms & Surrey can imagine Victorian life. Guided walk to Iron Age St Music Hall to 20C Lyceum, Montgomery etc. Hillfort thro’ ancient woods. Tales of architects, actors & stars. Not suitable for Sat 1000-1600 Sat 1130, 1330 & 1500 (Walks) under-12s no booking required (but max 20 per tour) Sat 1200 Roy Rogers 0114 2683697 Walkley Cemetery “Art and Industry” - [email protected] Guided Tours of Walkley Cemetery booking preferred (max 18 per tour) S6 5DU 2 leisuredly walks to learn stories of the buried; Trinity Church (URC) rich and poor, footballer, refugee, priest etc. ‘Cliff Face or Bunker? A Sheffield Church’ Learn of links with St George’s Museum Walkley, S11 8TG founded John Ruskin, & influence of both on local Controversial church building by Sheffield architect, community. Not suitable for under-8s Jenkinson. Explore for yourself & learn more about Sun 1400 & 1600 concealed, older, Edwardian parts & the dignity of no booking required interior. Talk by Clyde Binfield, Emeritus History Prof, Sheffield Uni,14.00pm Walkley Community Centre Sat 1000-1700 Talk 1400 S6 3TG no booking required Discover this Art Nouveau building in daily use by community. Grnd flr:Wooden dance floor, 1st flr: Underbank Unitarian Chapel & billiard hall (4 full-size tables), restored stained Schoolroom glass, Appleyard Room. Local history project S6 6AP ongoing, ‘Walkley Ways, Walkley Wars’ Fine example 18C. non-conformist chapel, Fri 1400 - 2000 overlooking glorious Loxley Valley. Connections with Coleridge. Exhibition re 200 Anniversary of Wardsend Cemetery: “A Fatal Attraction” Sunday School,display re ‘Underbankers’ who S6 2 ET fought in WW1, local poetry, activities for children. Come & learn about 130 years of history of Sat 1200-1600 Sun 1400-1600 cemetery, & beautiful flora and fauna. Fascinating facts about ‘residents’, the spiritual side, – Turner Glass atmosphere, and the preservation of this important Museum place. Not suitable for under-10s. S1 3JD Sat 1030 - 1200 Sun 1030 - 1200 Visit newly refurbished Turner Glass Museum in Centenary Year of Founding of Dept. of Glass Technology, glass artifacts include glass fibre Remember when planning wedding dress. (Glassblowing in Dept. Foundry tbc your day, please check online but no children under 10) Fri 1000-1600; Tours Fri 1000, 1100, 1200, 1400, for details. See page 2 of this 1500 & 1600 booklet. booking essential via website (max 20 per tour)

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