St. Vincent's Church, Sheffield

Saint Vincent's Church is a redundant Roman Catholic church located at the intersection of Solly Street and Hollis Croft in the center of Sheffield. Originally established to serve the Roman Catholic community, primarily Irish immigrants in The Crofts area, the church has a rich history dating back to the early 1850s.

In the early 1850s, Sheffield's Catholic population at The Crofts worshipped at Saint Marie's Church, the city's only Catholic church. To serve the community better, Father Edmund Scully of Saint Marie's started building a chapel school, completed in 1853 by architect Matthew Ellison Hadfield. In 1856, it was expanded into a church by George Goldie, adding a nave and chancel but no tower. A 40-foot tower was added in 1870, and in 1911, the tower was raised to 93 feet in the Norman style by architect Charles Hadfield.

The church's congregation declined due to war damage and post-war slum clearances, as the Saint Vincent's area was redeveloped into a business district. By 1989, the presbytery and school had closed, and many members moved to Walkley and Crookes, prompting fundraising for a new church. Saint Vincent's Church closed in 1996, and a new church opened in Crookes in May 2001. In the 1950s, repairs were made, including a new chapel, roofs, and an entrance porch, but the old church was largely unused, occasionally serving as storage. The surrounding land was used as a commercial car park, and the area is now gradually rejuvenating.

In 2016, the majority of the church site was purchased by Unite Students, who redeveloped the area into student accommodation. The first students moved in by September 2018, and the church building was repurposed as a communal space featuring shared social areas, a cinema, kitchen, and soundproofed music rooms. The old school building, initially retained by Saint Vincent's parish, was gifted to Mission Hub Sheffield, an Evangelical Catholic organization, in 2017. Renovations of the school were completed in 2019, and it now also serves the Catholic chaplaincy of the University of Sheffield.