Victoria Hall, Sheffield

The meeting house was destroyed in a riot in 1743 during a service conducted by Charles Wesley and a new chapel was built on Mulberry Street at the expense of the local magistrates for failing to keep the peace.

The Chapel was opened and consecrated in 1780 by the 77-year-old John Wesley, who described it as "One of the largest in the Kingdom" and presented the new building with a set of silver communion vessels.

The Hall was opened on Thursday 24 September 1908 with the final cost being in excess of £40,000, a huge sum at the time, but the Wesleyan mission cleared the debt within three years.

In the Hall's early days the surrounding area was densely populated and thousands of young people attended Sunday School, Scouting, Girl Guides and Boys' Brigade.

During the years of the Great Depression the Hall served free breakfasts to needy children and distributed food parcels as well helping the unemployed.

[2] Today the hall stands in an important position in the city centre, across from Tudor Square and close to the Crucible and Lyceum theatres.