Carols bid to help one of Sheffield's most historic churches

The Star, Sheffield

Carols concert bid to help one of Sheffield's most historic churches, the New Testament Church of God,  on Nursery Street

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00:00It's one of Sheffield's most historic churches and parishioners hope to give it a Christmas boost to help protect it for future generations.

00:08New Testament Church of God, a landmark on Nursery Street, dates back to 1848 but needs work doing to keep the ageing building maintained.

00:17And this year there are plans for a carol concert to raise money for the building and a medical charity.

00:23Yeah, this is a very old building, built in 1848. It's Grade II listed.

00:33Our organisation, I think we purchased this around the early 1970s, which at the time was a derelict building.

00:43But we've done quite a bit of work over the years in order to be what it is today and to bring it to its former glory.

00:52So yeah, we've been here as an organisation, or part of an organisation, and used this as a local church since around 1974.

01:03And what plans have you got for the building over Christmas?

01:08So we'll be holding a carol service on Sunday the 22nd of December at 6pm, all invited.

01:19And we're going to be using, on this occasion, the service as a part fundraiser.

01:27We've had to have the roof replaced just a few months ago and there'll be some further repairs going on on the outside of the building next year.

01:36It'll need reappointing because we want it to be nice, safe and watertight.

01:42It's a community building so we often hold a lot of local funerals, large funerals.

01:48It's a big building so we have lots of different events here, baby dedications, weddings.

01:54And this carol service will be a way of raising some money towards some of the upkeep that we'll be doing and some of the work that we'll be doing next year.

02:05So we want as many people from the community to attend because it is a community building.

02:12So in the last year we've had all the fencing installed.

02:19There was something similar in 1848 but during the war all the fences got removed for steel for the war.

02:28And so we've just replaced that and we're trying to restore aspects of the building to its former glory.

02:33But what it will need now is a big job of the whole building being repointed so we can make it more watertight.

02:42And with anything like an old building like this it just needs some constant love and tender care.

02:49Each year at our carol services we like to include some charities, either local or national charities.

02:59In the last year we did have the Anthony Nolan Trust charity come and there was a person in particular, Andrea, who came along to the carol service and has since passed away.

03:13So this year in her honour we still wanted to include that charity and some of the funds that we raise will be going towards that which is a national blood cancer charity.

03:24And I think they do some stem cell research and we wanted to be able to support that.

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