Church of St Mark, Broomhill, Sheffield

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The Church of St Mark is a Church of England parish church in the Broomhill suburb of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It is dedicated to St Mark the Evangelist. Since 2000 it has served the amalgamated parishes of Broomhill and Broomhall.

History: Broomhill grew up in the early 19th century as Sheffield experienced rapid population growth as a result of industrialisation. In order to serve the ecclesiastical needs of this new community, a church dedicated to St Mark was founded on the present site in 1854 with monies provided by steelmaker William Butcher. The first building was a prefabricated and galvanised iron structure, the type of which would commonly come to be referred to as a tin tabernacle. Always intended to be temporary, it survived only until 1868, when construction began on a grand stone building in Gothic Revival style designed by William Henry Crossland, typical of the era. Crossland's church was completed in 1871 and would serve the community for the next seven decades. On the night of 12 December 1940, Crossland's building was largely destroyed by an incendiary bomb during what would become known as the "Sheffield Blitz". Once the site was cleared only the...