St Cecilia’s Church, Sheffield

Plans to demolish a church in a housing estate in Sheffield:

http://publicaccess.sheffield.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=consulteeComments&keyVal=NN9LUZNYFY000

This pleasant building represents an excellent 1930s effort at a Norman revival from the latter end of the most recent church building age. The building has been threatened for a while, but it seems that the asset strippers at CofE have decided that flattening the sit – hiatus – selling the site, is the most tactical approach to use here. Very sweet building that could have been saved if only it was positioned elsewhere, outside of this housing market area in suburban Sheffield.