The Gothic Revival Victorian building that was Andover Street Methodist New Connexion chapel is now Burngreave Seventh Day Adventist Church.
The building dates from 1865 and was designed by William Hill of Leeds . A school was added in 1862. It is Grade II Listed and you can see a picture and read more here.
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Andover Street chapel was built in 1864-5 to replace an earlier building, qv. It cost £3500. In 1920 it was described as “An early English structure with a tower and a spire”. By 1901 £4925 had been spent on the original construction and the subsequent enlargement of the chapel, a school, and a manse A further £250. had been spent on purchasing an organ. The chapel seated 650 and the school 280. In 1940 the stone built chapel estate consisted of the chapel which seated 670 in pews, 1 school hall and four other rooms.
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John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson Returns of Accommodation provided by Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, 1940/1004 Sheffield, North Circuit
Sources
A Digest of the Minutes, Institutions, Polity, Doctrines, Ordinances and Literature of the Methodist New Connexion, by William Baggally, p 150
Methodist New Connexion: Returns of Trust Estates as presented in Special Schedules, January 1901, Sheffield District, Sheffield West Circuit
White’s Directory of Sheffield, 1919-20, p. lx
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