"GLEADLESS, a hamlet and constablewick in the parish of Handsworth, wapentake of South Strafford, West Riding of county York, 3 miles S.E. of Sheffield. The people are mostly employed in the manufacture of table cutlery, and in the coal-pits. There is a chapel-of-ease the living of which is a curacy annexed to the rectory of Handworth. The Independents have a chapel, and there is a National school."
Christ Church, Hollinsend Road, Gleadless was built in 1839 as a chapel of ease to St Mary, Handsworth and consecrated in 1843. The parish was created in 1881 from St Mary, Handsworth.