The hall has hosted concerts (including, reportedly, Pulp), a
soup kitchen, dances, and voting as well as many
community activities.

The building closed in 1996, and has been
heavily vandalised, and damaged internally
by fire and general neglect.

The locally run Vestry Hall Trust has
been working since then to find
funding for reopening the building.

In 2003, Burngreave New Deal
for Communities and the City
Council agreed to work on
what they call ‘transformational’
projects in the Burngreave
area.  

The Vestry Hall redevelopment is one of these projects,
and will create a Community Learning Hub, where local
adult learners will be able to access a wide range
of services.

If you want to send me your memories of the Vestry Hall before it fell into disrepair, please do!  I’ll try to post as
many as possible on this site.

A brief history of the Vestry Hall - 2