St Thomas, Brightside
St Thomas is a former Anglican church in the Brightside area of Sheffield in England which now serves as a circus training school. The Sheffield and Rotherham Railway opened in 1838, and both industry and housing spread along its route through the Lower Don Valley.Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Theater building
- Description: former church in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
- Also known as: “Greentop Circus Centre”, “Greentop Circus Training Centre”, and “St Thomas’s Church”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sheffield Arena and Attercliffe Chapel.
Sheffield Arena
Stadium
Photo: Alan Murray-Rust, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sheffield Arena, known for sponsorship purposes as Utilita Arena Sheffield, is a multi-purpose arena located in Sheffield, England. It is situated near Meadowhall and lies between Sheffield city centre and Rotherham town centre. Sheffield Arena is situated 3,800 feet southeast of St Thomas, Brightside.
Attercliffe Chapel
Church
Photo: Warofdreams, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Attercliffe Chapel, also known as the Hill Top Chapel, is a Gothic chapel in Attercliffe, now a suburb of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The chapel was constructed in 1629, when Attercliffe was a township separate from Sheffield, although in the same parish. Attercliffe Chapel is situated 2,900 feet south of St Thomas, Brightside.
IceSheffield
Stadium
Photo: Ian Paterson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
iceSheffield is an ice arena in the Lower Don Valley, Sheffield, England. It was completed in May 2003 at a cost of £15 million. It is one of only two facilities in the UK that has two Olympic sized ice pads, with seating for 1,500 people in pad 1 and 125 in pad 2. IceSheffield is situated 3,100 feet southeast of St Thomas, Brightside.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grimesthorpe and Carbrook.
Grimesthorpe
Suburb
Burngreave ward—which includes the districts of Burngreave, Fir Vale, Grimesthorpe, Pitsmoor, and Shirecliffe—is one of the 28 electoral wards in Sheffield, England.
Carbrook
Suburb
Carbrook is an industrial area of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England to the south-east of Brightside. The suburb is named for the Carr Brook, which ran through the area until the late eighteenth century.
Brightside
Suburb
Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brightside is an industrial area of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England lying on a hill north of Attercliffe and the River Don. Brightside was recorded in the fifteenth century as "Brekesherth", when it was home to some mills.
St Thomas, Brightside
- Categories: church, building, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Ecclesfield, Sheffield, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.40668° or 53° 24′ 24″ northLongitude
-1.43211° or 1° 25′ 56″ westOpen location code
9C5WCH49+M5OpenStreetMap ID
way 102999479OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=theatreOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchWikidata ID
Q21008642
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