Pair of Chapels at Tinsley Park Cemetery
PAIR OF CHAPELS AT TINSLEY PARK CEMETERY, BARLEYWOOD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246538
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Pair of Chapels at Tinsley Park Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- PAIR OF CHAPELS AT TINSLEY PARK CEMETERY, BARLEYWOOD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246538
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Pair of Chapels at Tinsley Park Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- PAIR OF CHAPELS AT TINSLEY PARK CEMETERY, BARLEYWOOD ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PAIR OF CHAPELS AT TINSLEY PARK CEMETERY, BARLEYWOOD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 39500 88658
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NE BARLEYWOOD ROAD 784-1/6/61 Pair of Chapels at Tinsley Park 28/06/73 Cemetery (Formerly Listed as: BARLEYWOOD ROAD Pair of chapels and connecting gateway at Tinsley Park Cemetery)
GV II
Cemetery chapels, one now used as a store. Dated 1880. By Holmes & Johnson. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched slate roofs with 2 shouldered coped side wall stacks. Gothic Revival style. Symmetrical layout with central entrance bay flanked by chapels with side porches. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth and eaves, buttresses, coped parapets and gables with crosses. Western entrance has a moulded central arch and smaller flanking arches with round piers and hoodmoulds. Above, shouldered gable with clock. On either side, a thin buttressed bell tower with octagonal bell stage topped with an octagonal spire. To left, dated foundation stone. Chapel west ends have angle buttresses and 3-light pointed arched windows with Geometrical tracery and hoodmoulds. The east end has the same design without the bell towers. The chapels' outer sides have 4 quatrefoil windows and to east, single gabled porches with single lancets in the gables, with hoodmoulds. On the east sides, a chamfered cusped flat-headed doorway. Entrance bay interior has a 3 bay wooden arcade with turned posts and roll moulded segmental pointed arches. Strutted common rafter roof. On either side, 2 chamfered doorways with hoodmoulds and double doors. INTERIOR: rendered chapel interior has string course and arch braced principal rafter roof with traceried spandrels and corbels. 2 double doors with depressed segmental heads and moulded flat canopies with single shafts. On the other side, a doorway with hoodmould into the porch. The partnership of Holmes & Johnson existed from 1869-1887, though SF Holmes died in 1882. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).
Listing NGR: SK3950088658
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455367
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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