For the Heritage Weekend 2022 we displayed again photographs from the church's history, collected by the late Paul Clarke, deacon and church treasurer.
Here are two of the boards:
More from our history
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In 1899, a group of Christians began meeting in a schoolroom in Hillsborough. The following year they opened a mission hall and by 1907 were occupying a newly built church on Crookes Place (now Proctor Place). The fellowship prospered and by the 1920s an army hut, no longer required by the military, was erected to accommodate the midweek activities enjoyed by the young people attending the chapel. It was known as the Institute. Around the same time, the members applied to join the Congregational Union of England and Wales. In the Sheffield Blitz in December 1940, the church and Institute were totally destroyed.
Throughout the following year the members rebuilt the Institute using materials salvaged from the bombsite and used this for worship and social events from February 1942 until May 1955, when the present church was opened on the site of the original church.
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| The present building |
After the 1971 URC vote, the members chose to remain independent before joining the Congregational Federation in 1993.
"Bombed but unbowed", a book telling the history of the church, was published in 2015.
