Underbank Chapel

Underbank Chapel is a Unitarian place of worship in Stannington, a suburb of Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

[1] It stands in a rural situation, 4 miles [6 km] west of the city centre on Stannington Road overlooking the Loxley Valley.

Underbank Schoolroom, which is closely associated with the chapel, stands 55 yards [50 m] to the south-west and is also a Grade II listed building.

[2][3] Underbank Chapel is generally considered as being a distinctive and interesting example of its type as an eighteenth-century Dissenters' meeting house.

The front (south facing) side of the chapel features distinctive windows: two very tall round-headed ones with multiple small panes, and decoratively keyed oculus ones above both doors.

Ralph Wood, the minister of the chapel, was the first schoolmaster, paid seventeen shillings and sixpence a quarter.

The balance was finally paid in April 1885 by the proceeds of a bazaar at Channing Hall, linked to Upper Chapel in Sheffield.

It consists of a single storey with a basement; the windows are tall, round headed with multiple small panes.

A central plaque on the upper outer east wall reads: “Day and Sunday School erected A.D. 1853.”[10]