Chantry Inn
Location/Address
Chantry Inn, 400 Handsworth Road, Handsworth, S13 9BZ
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Description
The Chantry Inn is a three-roomed pub with many vintage fittings and low ceilings supported by oak beams. In Spring 2019, the pub was acquired by Rotherham-based, Chantry Brewery as their first Sheffield pub. Sympathetic renovation occurred, the pub reopening with a name change later in the year. It was previously the Cross Keys.
The back parts are the main interest, with the snug a particular delight. This little room, refitted probably in the 1920s and largely untouched since, has all its original seating, panelling and Art Deco fire surround.
There is more old seating in the other rooms and a (disused) corridor off sales hatch near the entrance. The servery and bar-fittings are all modern. 1952 plans (architect: James Totty and Company, Rotherham for Mappins Brewery) show an extension at the centre rear for the building of a Ladies' toilet. Simultaneously, a kitchen at rear left becomes the Gents', a kitchen and living room appearing on the upper floor. By 1983, the curvature of the bar in the Tap Room had altered into the current configuration of a curve (architects: Melling and Ridgeway for Wm. Stones).
The Chantry Inn is one of only four pubs in the UK that are claimants as built on consecrated land. It is an old vernacular building that stands virtually within the churchyard. There is a cemetery on the grounds of the pub.
Originally a mid-C13th. house for chaplains and then a schoolroom, it became a pub in the early part of the C19th.
Reference: Sheffield Archives: MC/DC/295
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Date Listed
15 Aug 2022
Last Updated
15 Jun 2022
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