ATTERCLIFFE, a chapelry in that part of the
parish of SHEFFIELD which is in the southern division
of the wapentake of STRAFFORTH-and-TICKHILL, West
riding of the county of YORK, 1 mile (N.E. by E.)
from Sheffield, containing, with the hamlet of Darnall,
3172 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, m
the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with
£400 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and
£3000 parliamentary grant, and in the 'patronage' of
the Vicar of Sheffield. The chapel is dedicated to
the Holy Jesus. A new church, in the later style of
English architecture, was erected in 1822, at the expense
of £11,700. 5., defrayed by a grant from the
parliamentary commissioners. There are places ot
worship for Calvinists and Wesleyan Methodists, A
Sunday school is endowed with £13. 9. 6. per annum.
Almshouses have been erected for four poor people,
but they are not endowed.