St Mark's Church, Broomhill, Sheffield
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St Mark's Church, Broomhill is the parish church of the Sheffield suburb of Broomhill, in England.
The church was originally built in 1868–1871 to a standard neo-Gothic design by W. H. Crossland. This building was destroyed by an incendiary bomb during the "Sheffield Blitz" of 12 December 1940, only the spire and a porch survived (they are now Grade II listed structures). The remnants of the bombed church were used as the basis for a new church designed by George Pace and constructed 1958–1963. This new building is of a Modernist design but is also sympathetic to the Gothic spire and porch. It is a rubble-faced concrete building with striking slit windows of varying numbers and locations around the building. There are also two notable stained glass windows: the Te Deum window by Harry Stammers and the west window by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens.
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- English Heritage (1995) West tower with porch to church of St Mark Images of England (accessed 7 August 2005—free registration required).
- Harman, R. & Minnis, J. (2004) Pevsner City Guides: Sheffield. pp249–250. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10585-1
- Pace, P. (1990) The Architecture of George Pace. B.T.Batsford Ltd. ISBN 0-7134-6273-6
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