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Changing short description from "Unitarian chapel in Sheffield, South Yorkshire" to "Unitarian chapel in Sheffield, England"

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{{Short description|Unitarian chapel in Sheffield, England}}
{{for|the hamlet in Wales|Upper Chapel, Powys}}
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'''Upper Chapel''' is a [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]] [[chapel]] on Norfolk Street in [[Sheffield City Centre]]. It is a member of the [[General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches]], the [[umbrella organisation]] for British Unitarians.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.unitarian.org.uk/findcong.shtml?cong=Sheffield%20Norfolk%20Street| title = Find a Congregation: Sheffield| access-date = 23 January 2011| publisher = The General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches (Great Britain)}}</ref> The Chapel is [[Grade II listed]].<ref name="chapel" />

James Fisher was the vicar at [[Sheffield Parish Church]] during the [[Commonwealth of England]]. He was expelled in the [[Great Ejection]] for refusing to sign the [[Act of Uniformity 1662]], and around a tenth of his parishioners followed him in becoming [[Rational dissenter|Dissenter]]s.<ref name="pevsner">Ruth Harman and John Minnis, ''Pevsner Architectural Guides: Sheffield''</ref>

Several splits ensued, but by the 1690s, the dominant group of non-conformists was led by [[Timothy Jollie]]. His congregation constructed Upper Chapel<ref>"Jollie, Timothy", ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]''</ref> as the first [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|non-conformist]] chapel in Sheffield [[1700 in architecture|in 1700]].<ref name="pevsner" /> It was built of brick and faced on to [[Fargate]]. The chapel originally boasted a congregation of about 1,000 people, a sixth of the city's population.<ref name="chapel">[http://www.upperchapel.org.uk/w/doku.php/uc:history Upper Chapel: History]</ref> The side walls survive from this period.<ref name="pevsner" />

In the 1840s, the Chapel was turned round to face across fields. The roof was raised and the interior reconstructed. The alterations by John Frith were completed in 1848, while the interior has several later additions, including several [[stained glass]] windows.<ref name="pevsner" /> Nine on the ground floor are by [[Henry Holiday]].<ref name="chapel" />

Nineteenth-century ministers included [[George Vance Smith]], [[Brooke Herford]], [[Thomas Hinks]] and [[John Edmondson Manning]], who wrote a history of the chapel in 1900.<ref>"Manning, John Edmondson", ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]''</ref>

The Chapel is linked to '''Channing Hall''', which faces on to [[Surrey Street]]. Designed by [[Flockton and Gibbs]] and completed in 1882, the hall is of [[Italianate architecture|Italianate design]] and is named for [[William Henry Channing]], who served at the Chapel in 1875.<ref name="pevsner" />

The trustees own many freehold properties in Sheffield.

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Upper Chapel, Sheffield|Upper Chapel}}
* [https://www.upperchapelsheffield.org.uk/ Official site]
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{{Churches in Sheffield}}
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[[Category:Churches completed in 1700]]
[[Category:Churches in Sheffield]]
[[Category:Grade II listed buildings in Sheffield]]
[[Category:Grade II listed churches in South Yorkshire]]
[[Category:Unitarian chapels in England]]
[[Category:Churches completed in 1848]]
[[Category:17th-century Protestant churches]]
[[Category:1700 establishments in England]]

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