The ruination of Sheffield - St Vincents

[BHRemovals]

lot of history to st vincents.

[Guest]

Reading the plans on the link provided it would suggest that the church is to be renovated on the outside. Unfortunately it would appear that a lot of the internal features will be destroyed and lost forever. The church itself will be dwarfed by these new structures. Instead of standing proud in it's own grounds.

As for using your council tax to ' prop up ' a church... a catholic church ???

I am unsure where you are coming from with that comment

St George's Church has been rather tastefully adapted into a lecture theatre by the University. You can have a wander around it here.

I hope the surrounding structures they put up will not be out of context with the church.

Not a good track record there. Here's the aforementioned church in the context of the truly hideous, Carbuncle Award nominated Diamond.

Edited November 4, 2016 by Guest

[boozy.bird]

I agree with you that the inside of your St Georges church has been tastefully done.... however it's very sad to see such a fine building dwarfed by the awful structure at the side of it

[Caz1]

Yet another piece of Sheffield history has been swallowed up by the university.

I am under the impression that Sheffield will soon just consist of buildings owned by the university.

The once great city of Sheffield will soon have no historical buildings left. The latest in a long line of casualties is St Vincents catholic church on Solly Street.

In recent years the church has been allowed to get run down and fall in to a state of disrepair. Sheffield city council and the catholic diocese should have pooled resources and renovated this poor old building. The grounds have been used for years as car parking {for a fee} where did all the money go ??

How many more people share my opinion of the loss of our old Sheffield buildings. Do the council get paid well to pass all these plans for the university.

Perhaps someone can give me a good reason for tearing down beautiful old buildings to put up some of the modern monstrosities that Sheffield has acquired in the name of progress.

It's true what you say, the University seems to be able to do whatever they want to Sheffield Buildings. They should be fostering good relations with the people of Sheffield not tearing down all the historic buildings.

[Anna B]

St George's Church has been rather tastefully adapted into a lecture theatre by the University. You can have a wander around it here.

 

Not a good track record there. Here's the aforementioned church in the context of the truly hideous, Carbuncle Award nominated Diamond.

 

There are some lovely modern buildings. Unfortunately the diamond carbuncle is not one of them. Whoever allowed it past planning should be shot.

[Robin-H]

There are some lovely modern buildings. Unfortunately the diamond carbuncle is not one of them. Whoever allowed it past planning should be shot.

 

How it got through planning I'm not entirely sure. Pretty much everybody was strongly against it. I guess money talks..

[samssong]

Yet another piece of Sheffield history has been swallowed up by the university.

I am under the impression that Sheffield will soon just consist of buildings owned by the university.

The once great city of Sheffield will soon have no historical buildings left. The latest in a long line of casualties is St Vincents catholic church on Solly Street.

In recent years the church has been allowed to get run down and fall in to a state of disrepair. Sheffield city council and the catholic diocese should have pooled resources and renovated this poor old building. The grounds have been used for years as car parking {for a fee} where did all the money go ??

How many more people share my opinion of the loss of our old Sheffield buildings. Do the council get paid well to pass all these plans for the university.

Perhaps someone can give me a good reason for tearing down beautiful old buildings to put up some of the modern monstrosities that Sheffield has acquired in the name of progress.

Whole historical areas of Sheffield have been abandoned by the council in their rush to supply the big business with sites and permissions to do as they please , this at the expense of the have nots in our town who"s views are never asked for or even considered.

Socialist council my arrrssse.

[Ridgewalk]

Personally I wouldn't be happy for my council tax to be used to 'prop up' a church, especially a catholic one

 

 

All churches should be converted into something more socially useful or people friendly

[crookedspire]

Theirs going to be even more student apartments to be built , the target area is Garden Street an old tool works is going to have a date with a JCB if the plans get the go ahead.

[tzijlstra]

Ah, what would Sheffield Forum be without a recent post bashing the University for something it isn't responsible for. If you actually check the application you can see it is Unite PLC who applied for the contract, that is a private firm. But let's blame the University, after all, St. Vincent's Quarter is such a beautiful and valuable part of the city centre in its current form...

 

PS - where will the street prostitutes and dealers go?