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  The Mystery Worshipper: Nine O'Clock Community, Hill Top Chapel, Sheffield
The neighbourhood: Attercliffe was once the centre of Sheffield's steel-making industry (the wreckage of that industry forms the backdrop for the film 'The Full Monty').
The chapel is directly opposite the Don Valley Stadium and an enormous police station.
Sitting alone after the service inside this chapel and thinking of the faith that has enabled this place to withstand the economic and social upheaval all around it.
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 Darnall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Darnall ward—which includes the districts of Attercliffe, Darnall, Tinsley, and parts of Handsworth—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England.
Lying on the south bank of the River Don, it originally grew as a small hamlet centred on Attercliffe Chapel, and was part of the parish of Sheffield.
Attercliffe was always an industrial area, but by the early 20th century, there was a large residential population and high-class shops.
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 Darnall -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Attercliffe () is an (additional info and facts about industrial) industrial suburb of northeast Sheffield.
Attercliffe was always an industrial area, but by the early (additional info and facts about 20th century) 20th century, there was a large residential population and high-class shops.
The area became a centre for Sheffield’s (additional info and facts about LGBT) LGBT population, and is known locally for its (additional info and facts about sex industry) sex industry, garnering a reputation as Sheffield's equivalent to (A city district of central London now noted for restaurants and nightclubs) Soho.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/Da/Darnall.htm   (777 words)

  
 GENUKI: Sheffield Out-Townships, 1852
Darnall was gazetted as a church district in 1844; and the Wicker, Brightside, and Pitsmoor,in 1845.
The old chapel of ease, at the eastern extremity of the village, was built in 1629; but it is now only used for sepulchral purposes, having an extensive burial ground.
Attercliffe Ecclesiastical District comprises the village and suburbs of Attercliffe, which comprise about 3000 inhabitants, and are rapidly encreasing; many new houses have been erected during the past year.
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 Religious Edifaces
The chapel, which is one of the largest places of worship in the town, is a lofty and imposing structure, 95 feet long and 74 feet wide.
The foundation stone of a new chapel at Attercliffe, which is intended to be of a very handsome description, and to accommodate 900 persons, at the cost of £2,000, was laid in March, 1862.
A wooden screen of elegant design cuts off the aisle from a mortuary chapel, which has an altar consisting of a massive slab of stone, borne up by two stone shafts with sculptured capitals, whilst at the back and beneath it is a series of niches, containing sculpture of ancient date in alabastar.
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 curiosities
Huntsman is buried at the Hilltop Chapel on Attercliffe Common.
The King's Head, a public house on Attercliffe Common, was formally the village chemist where Samuel Jackson, co-founder of Spear and Jackson, was born in 1839.
The Chapel is the oldest place of worship in the area and was the sole Anglican church for Attercliffe until 1826.
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"ATTERCLIFFE, is a considerable village, in the township of Attercliffe with Darnall, and parish of Sheffield, situate on the road leading to Rotherham and Doncaster, one mile and a half east from the Market place in Sheffield -- the manufactures of the place being of the same character as those of that town.
The school assembled in a large room at the back of the chapel, and this room was divided into two compartments--one for the boys and one for the girls--by means of a wooden partition about three feet high, above which was a curtain on rollers.
The chapel, dedicated to St. James, was erected in 1788, by Hurst, and contains the altar-piece, by Fearon, "Christ Raising Jairus' Daughter." There is also the district church of St. Mark, situated in Myddelton-square, which is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of London, value £535, in the patronage of the bishop.
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 Alternative worship Anglican style with the Nine O'Clock Community, Hill Top Chapel, Sheffield
Attercliffe was once the center of Sheffield's steel-making industry (the wreckage of that industry forms the backdrop for the film 'The Full Monty').
The chapel is directly opposite the Don Valley Stadium and an enormous police station.
Sitting alone after the service inside this chapel and thinking of the faith that has enabled this place to withstand the economic and social upheaval all around it.
members.tripod.com /nineoclockservice/nocMystery26.htm   (780 words)

  
 Sheffield Forum Archive - History of Attercliffe
The name Attercliffe is derived from the village at the cliff, the cliff in question being at the bend in the river don just below where christ church used to standin the Domesday survey it was written as Aterclive.
Carbrook is derived from saxon or celtic for a marshy or meadow stream, the carr brook ran behind the old pheasant Inn in the 18th century.
I believe Attercliffe derived frome the word Ottercliffe where Otters used to thrive along the river Don as were salmon hence the name salmon pastures.
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 ipedia.com: Sheffield Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Thousands of flint, quartzite, bone and ivory tools were found as well as the bones and teeth of musk ox, hippopotamus and woolly rhinoceros.
Among these were Attercliffe, Bramley, Brightside, Brincliffe, Darnall, Fulwood, Gleadless, Handsworth, Heeley, Longley, Norton, Owlerton, Shirecliffe, Southey, Tinsley, Totley, Wadsley, Walkley and Woodseats, all of which are now districts of modern Sheffield.
In Ateclive and Escafeld [Attercliffe and Sheffield], two manors, Sweyn had five carucates of land [five hundred acres] to be taxed.
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 church times article two
It was relaunched at Hill Top Chapel, Attercliffe, in April 1996, and, in a move to help members break free of a painful past, was assigned its own chaplain, the Revd Philip Allin.
After a seven-minute talk on the meaning of Samhain by Jim, a lay member of the church, the congregation took part in a "threshold ritual", in which they wrote down their hopes or wishes for the future, or something they wished to give up.
They then left the chapel by the north door to burn these on the bonfire outside, before returning by the south entrance.
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 Attercliffe Chapel - Definition up Erdmond.Com
, also known as the Hill_Top_Chapel, is a Gothic chapel in Attercliffe, now a suburb of Sheffield, England.
The chapel was constructed in 1629, when Attercliffe was a township separate from Sheffield, although in the same parish.
The chapel, surrounded by its cemetery, and lying on the south bank of the River Don, was largely rebuilt in 1909, but retains its period atmosphere.
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 Attercliffe Chapel -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Attercliffe Chapel -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
The chapel was constructed in 1629, when Attercliffe was a township separate from Sheffield, although in the same (A local church community) parish.
The chapel, surrounded by its (A tract of land used for burials) cemetery, and lying on the south bank of the (additional info and facts about River Don) River Don, was largely rebuilt in 1909, but retains its period atmosphere.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/at/attercliffe_chapel.htm   (71 words)

  
 1806
The writer of this piece describing a walk in Attercliffe in 1806 is unknown, he simply signed it as one of Attercliffe's oldest inhabitants.
Walking through Attercliffe at that time and starting at Washford Bridge at the Sheffield end of the village, one would first see at the back of a row of houses newly erected on the cliff running sheer above the Don, the remains of a very old house occupied by Jonathon Oakes, a scissor manufacturer.
Near the Wesleyan Chapel was Thomas Fawley's butchers shop, whilst next door was the Coach and Horses, one of the oldest public houses, occupied by Tommy Corker, a joiner by trade.
www.jimsdesk.co.uk /1806.html   (1270 words)

  
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Attercliffe Chapelry, Church of England Bishop Transcripts (1608-1828), Bapts./Chrs., 1748-1774.
Attercliffe Christ Church, Church of England Bishop Transcripts (1819-1829), Bapts./Chrs., 1819-1829.
Attercliffe, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Church Records (1835-1837), Births and Bapts., 1835-1837.
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 Schooldays - Memories/History R E Leader Chapter 2
Greaves, and took to wife one who was domestically employed in the family), went off to Howard Street Chapel on a wet Sunday with an umbrella of this kind, his sons were so ashamed of being associated with the scorned novelty that they would not be seen with him, but chose another route.
In the middle of the century, the Rev. John Pye, of Nether Chapel, paid a guinea for his wigs, but later, the price was increased, and on occasion he gave as much as two guineas.
His widowed mother had taken, as her second husband, the Rev. Daniel Clark, minister at Attercliffe and assistant minister at the Upper Chapel; and his sister, who became heiress of the family, was afterwards the wife of Aylmer Riche, of Bullhouse.
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