Castle Market

Castle Market from the south west.

Castle Market was a former indoor market in Sheffield city centre, England. The building lay in the north east of the present city centre, by the River Don, and was built on top of the remains of Sheffield Castle, which could still be seen via guided tours. The market closed in 2013 when the Moor Market opened on The Moor, further south in Sheffield city centre, and demolition began in 2015.

Description

The oldest part of the building was the Fish and Vegetable Market, constructed in the inter-war period. The remainder of the building was constructed by J. L. Womersley and Andrew Darbyshire between 1960 and 1965. It had two main floors, both of which included small shops and stalls, and each accessible from street level.

Other stores faced on to the surrounding streets, while a gallery found a storey above the main part of the market contained several more shops, and access to an office building surmounting the structure. The gallery was linked by bridges across Exchange Street to further above-ground shopping areas.

Replacement and site redevelopment

The whole Castle markets area has been the subject of redevelopment proposals since the 1980s, with part of the adjacent area being redeveloped with a hotel, multi-storey car park and several new office blocks in a development known as "The Square" by Carillion. The original scheme to replace the markets fell victim to the 1990s recession. A new markets building opened on The Moor in 2013, which is a partnership between the council and private developers. The multi-storey car park for the Moor Market scheme has been built on Eyre Street.

Part of the council's current plans for the Castle Market was to demolish the existing complex ^[1] and open up a pedestrian route from the city centre to the Victoria Docks area and the new Riverside Quarter, now that the ring road has been diverted.

Sources

Sheffield, Ruth Harman and John Minnis (Pevsner Architectural Guides)

References

↑ "Demolition under way at Sheffield’s Castle Market". The Star. 25 February 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2015.

Buildings in Sheffield, England

Civic and institutional	Central Library City Hall Cutlers' Hall Jessop Hospital National Union of Mineworkers headquarters Northern General Hospital Old Town Hall Royal Hallamshire Hospital Royal Infirmary Shrewsbury Hospital Town Hall

Commercial	Castle Market Crystal Peaks Digital Campus Dyson House 2 Haymarket Hillsborough Barracks Meadowhall Orchard Square St Pauls Tower Sheaf House Telephone House V1 Velocity Tower West.One

Educational	Alfred Denny Building Arts Tower Bioincubator Drama Studio Firth Court Goodwin Sports Centre Hicks Building Information Commons Octagon Centre Owen Building Pennine Centre Redvers House Sir Frederick Mappin Building University House

Industrial	Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet Beehive Works Brooklyn Works Butchers Wheel Cementation Furnace Cornish Place Globe Works Green Lane Works Leah's Yard Little Matlock Rolling Mill Moore Street electricity substation Sharrow Mills Shepherd Wheel Sydney Works Taylor's Eye Witness Works Well Meadow Street Crucible Furnace

Leisure and entertainment	Abbeydale Picture House Academy Birley Spa The Boardwalk Carbrook Hall The Cremorne Crucible Theatre Gatecrasher One Glossop Road Baths Hallam Tower Kelham Island Museum Leadmill Lyceum Theatre Millennium Galleries National Centre for Popular Music Old Queen's Head, Sheffield Odeon Sheffield Plug Sheffield Arena Showroom Cinema Weston Park Museum Winter Gardens

Religious	Churches in Sheffield Madina Mosque Wilson Road Synagogue

Residential	Birley Old Hall Broom Hall Burrowlee House Carbrook Hall Endcliffe Hall Fair House Farmhouse Fulwood Hall Hallfield House Hancock & Lant Tower Hillsborough House Leader House Loxley House Manor Castle Mount Pleasant Mylnhurst Norton Hall Oakes Park Old Bank House Onesacre Hall Parkhead Hall Park Hill Queen's Tower Regent Court Revell Grange Riverdale House Stumperlowe Cottage Stumperlowe Hall Sugworth Hall Tapton Hall The Towers Whiteley Wood Hall Whitley Hall

Sporting	Bramall Lane Don Valley Stadium English Institute of Sport Hillsborough Stadium IceSheffield Owlerton Stadium Ponds Forge Sandygate Road Ski Village

Transport	Bridgehouses station Crystal Peaks bus station Interchange Midland station Victoria station Wicker station

Other structures	192 Shoreham Street Cholera Monument Cobweb Bridge Lady's Bridge Park Square Bridge Tinsley Viaduct Totley Tunnel Wicker Arches

Lists of buildings	Brutalist apartment blocks Buildings and structures Listed buildings Pubs Tallest buildings and structures

Demolished buildings are shown in italics

Coordinates: 53°23′4.9″N 1°27′47.6″W / 53.384694°N 1.463222°W / 53.384694; -1.463222

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