Talk:St Mark's Church, Grenoside

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The following looks like it was copied from the book referenced on the main article- anyone in the vicinity of Sheffield please check this if you can. Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 23:44, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

The Church of England was somewhat late in the scheme of things coming to the village. Methodism had established a place of worship, in Grenoside, at the commencement of the 19th. century, but it was not until after the National school had been built, in 1876, that the Vicar of Ecclesfield, in whose parish Grenoside then presented a curate-in-charge, the Rev. J.E. Stacye (1877-1905), to look after the needs of his flock in the village. He held services in the school, and he quickly discovered that the congregation attending was sufficiently large to require a church where the Sacraments could be administered, especially Holy Communion. The Rev. Dr. Alfred Gatty, the Vicar of Ecclesfield, and the curate-in-charge invited subscriptions towards the cost of providing a church building. William Smith, of Barnes Hall, and members of the Smith family contributed £300, and the Rev. J. Stacye - the father of the curate - also offered £300 to build the chancel. There, apparently, was little difficulty experienced in raising the £1400 estimated for the cost of the building, and a plot of land was set aside in a comer of the Vicars Glebe in the village. Work began clearing the site on 31st. March 1884, and on the 30th April the Countess of Warncliffe was able to lay the foundation stone of a building designed to bold two hundred and fifty people. In the event, the Rev. J. Stacye contributed more than the promised £300, for he paid for the complete cost of the chancel as a memorial to his wife - the mother of the curate. The architect was John Dodsley Webster (1840-19131, a Sheffield architect who is probably better known for his designs for the Jessop Hospital for Women and the Children's Hospital, although his buildings at St. Paul's parade andthe W.R. Smith building on Fargate are seen by many more people. St. Mark' s is designed in the Early English Period style of architecture - which is a term used to describe a thoroughly English Gothic but can be misleading when it is also used in regard to Well's, and Lincoln's Cathedrals. However, just to be different, the "east" window is Geometrical. - which is of a different style of architecture. The exterior walls are of coursed rubble local stone, with quoined window openings and buttresses, and the roof is of blue Welsh slate. In a bellcote on the "western" gable hangs a single bell. The entrance to the nave is through a small "south" porch, and there is a further "south" entrance onto the chancel. Two vestries were built at the "north-east" corner of the church, originally the upper one was for the priest, and the lower one for the choir. The church organ was installed in 1888, and it was brought from Manchester, being hauled across the Pennines by the licensee of the "Old Harrow", William Heap who was also a carter. The orientation of the church is North-South, the east window in the chancel is facing South.

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The latest additions are essentially adverts. Please note that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a source of current happenings. Could anyone with access to a substantive source (i.e. something that can be referenced) please fill in information about the architecture and history? Chemical Engineer (talk) 16:57, 18 October 2009 (UTC)