St Peter and St Paul Sheffield Yorkshire, West Riding information

**Details about the church**
Field	Value
Other possible church names :	Sheffield Cathedral
Denomination of the Church	Church of England
The Church Website
Number of transcriptions	394517
First year for a transcription	1560
Last year for a transcription	1879
Last date a transcription added	13 Mar 2025
Last date church information changed	13 Mar 2025
Notes about the Church	The Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Paul (Sheffield Parish Church) fronts onto Church Street, with Campo Lane to the rear and East Parade and St James Row on either side. The Cathedral Church is in the Diocese of Sheffield. The Bishop of Sheffield has his seat (‘cathedra’) at the church. The church registers (baptisms, marriages and burials) date from 1560. A lack of adequate space at the parish church of St Peter prompted parishioners to raise a public subscription for a chapel-of-ease nearby. The new church of St Paul was built on a piece of land near Pincheon Croft Lane (later Pinstone Street) and consecrated in May 1740. It obtained baptism and burial rights in 1743 and marriage rights in 1848. The Church closed in December 1937 and was demolished in the following year to make way for a new Town Hall extension. The site is now occupied by the Peace Gardens. The Parish Church, now St Peter and St Paul, was granted cathedral status with the formation of the new Diocese of Sheffield in 1914. The burial grounds were closed in 1855.

**Number of records by decade**
Period Those periods with zero data may span several decades. The first may include pre 1530 records.	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials	Total
Transcribed by	John Hissett,Margaret Lawrence,Charles Brown	John Hissett,Margaret Lawrence,Charles Brown	John Hissett,Margaret Lawrence,Vinodhini Subbu	John Hissett,Margaret Lawrence,Charles Brown,Vinodhini Subbu
1530–1559
1560–1569	992	223	671	1,886
1570–1579	943	254	696	1,893
1580–1589	1,202	350	957	2,509
1590–1599	1,350	414	1,324	3,088
1600–1609	1,442	375	996	2,813
1610–1619	1,652	471	1,353	3,476
1620–1629	1,806	530	1,589	3,925
1630–1639	2,108	529	2,132	4,769
1640–1649	2,216	447	2,335	4,998
1650–1659	1,693	889	1,838	4,420
1660–1669	2,084	1,155	2,170	5,409
1670–1679	2,189	1,053	2,297	5,539
1680–1689	2,584	917	2,891	6,392
1690–1699	2,265	612	2,784	5,661
1700–1709	3,009	973	2,602	6,584
1710–1719	3,263	949	2,949	7,161
1720–1729	3,948	1,154	3,868	8,970
1730–1739	4,641	1,389	6,893	12,923
1740–1749	5,687	1,540	6,178	13,405
1750–1759	6,780	1,770	6,116	14,666
1760–1769	8,696	2,527	7,216	18,439
1770–1779	10,439	2,926	9,815	23,180
1780–1789	13,492	3,728	11,176	28,396
1790–1799	16,175	4,322	13,004	33,501
1800–1809	17,531	4,852	12,914	35,297
1810–1819	19,069	6,222	10,901	36,192
1820–1829	19,661	7,472	10,038	37,171
1830–1839	22,001	2,454	3,259	27,714
1840–1849	9,739			9,739
1850–1859	10,291			10,291
1860–1869	7,665			7,665
1870–1879	6,443			6,443
1880–2029

Please note: due to different methods of record counting there may be discrepancies in the record totals on this page

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