Districts and Places
Masborough
Description from 1833 - In the township of Kimberworth, and parish of Rotherham, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; situated half a mile north west of Rotherham, and 6½ miles from Sheffield.
This village is separated from Rotherham only by a bridge; the inhabitants of which are chiefly employed in and about the Iron Works , which were begun in this neighbourhood in the year 1746, by Mr. Samuel Walker, and his brothers Aaron and Jonathan, and have been ever since that period, progressively increasing. At these works are manufactured, cannon of the largest calibre, and almost all other cast iron articles; bar, sheet, slit or rod iron, tinned plates, steel of every sort, and many articles of wrought iron. The iron Bridges of Sunderland and Yarm; also recently, one across the Thames in London, were cast at the foundries of Masbrough.
The coal and iron stone for the blast furnaces and foundries are principally supplied from from the estates of the Earl of Effingham, and some from those of Earl Fitzwilliam.
Near the Meeting House, is an Academical Institution for education of Protestant Dissenters called the Rotherham Independent Academy. The Institution was opened in 1795, under the superintendence of the Rev. Dr. Williams, who presides as Divinity Tutor. It is calculated to accommodate sixteen students, containing twenty two rooms, with lodging rooms and studies, and a library which contains about a thousand volumes.
Masbrough Congregational Chapel in College Road was founded in 1760 and opened in 1764.
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Bede, close to Masbrough Station, was built in 1843 at a cost of £1100. An edifice in the Decorated style. Connected with this was a cemetery and school. The Rev. Dean Eyre was rector who resided at the presbytery and Rev. William Curtis Hudson was assistant priest.
The Church of St. John the Evangelist was built in 1854 at a cost of £3500, an edifice in the Decorated style and comprised a nave with aisles and clerestory, chancel, transepts and a small belfry at the west end. A vicarage in the patronage of the Archbishop of York and held by the Rev. George William Sykes.
The Wesleyan Reform Chapel in Hall Street, Masbrough was built in 1872.
The Wesleyan Chapel in College Road, Masbrough was built in 1875, at an outlay of £5000 in lieu of one erected in 1847.
St. Michael's and All Angels, Northfield was an ecclesiastical parish formed out of St. John's Masbrough in 1895. The church consecrated on 5th October, 1901 is an ediface of stone in the Early English Style, and consisted of chancel, nave, aisles, baptistery, western porches and a turret containing one bell. The communion table, reredos and lectern were all oak, richly carved and adorned. The total cost was £6000 to seat 700. Held from 1895 by Rev. Henry Greenway. An iron chapel?
The Cemetery in Kimberworth Road, Masbrough, consisted of four acres and was opened in 1871 at a cost upwards of £3000, including the erection of two mortuary chapels, the sexton's house and the boundary wall. The clerk was Matthew Henry Smith and William Henry Roebuck was superintendent and sexton.
Masbrough Recreation Ground , situated between Kimberworth Road and Ferham Street was opened in 1887 to commemorate the Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. The land, about 10 acres, was formerly part of Ferham Park, and cost £3750, including fencing.
Victoria Hall, Ferham Road, Masbrough, was built by subscription in 1888.
Masbrough Club and Reading Rooms, held meetings at 141 Masbrough Street from the early 1900s. The Secretary was Albert Moss.
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