Cemetery Chapels at Burngreave Cemetery
CEMETERY CHAPELS AT BURNGREAVE CEMETERY, MELROSE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246676
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapels at Burngreave Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- CEMETERY CHAPELS AT BURNGREAVE CEMETERY, MELROSE ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246676
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapels at Burngreave Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- CEMETERY CHAPELS AT BURNGREAVE CEMETERY, MELROSE 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:
- CEMETERY CHAPELS AT BURNGREAVE CEMETERY, MELROSE 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 35906 89110
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NE MELROSE ROAD 784-1/6/509 (North side (off)) 28/06/73 Cemetery chapels at Burngreave Cemetery (Formerly Listed as: MELROSE ROAD Pair of chapels with clock tower at Burngreave Cemetery)
GV II
Cemetery chapels, now stores. 1860-61. By Flockton & Lee. Coursed rubble and dressed stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. Symmetrical layout with central tower and spire joined by single storey links to the chapels, which have large side vestries and porches. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, string course, sillband, angle buttresses, coped gables with kneelers and crosses. 3 stage tower has a central moulded archway with single shafts and hoodmould, to north and south. Above these, a clock, and to east and west a single lancet. Bell stage has a deeply moulded 2-light pointed arch bell opening on each side under a coped gable. Spire has a tapering square base surmounted by a square bell turret with double lancet openings on each side under moulded gables. Above this, an octagonal needle spire with a tier of tiny lucarnes, topped with a cross. Links have a cusped double lancet with central shaft. Chapels south gables have moulded doorways with hoodmoulds and above them, traceried wheel windows with moulded surrounds. North gables have 4-light pointed arch windows with hoodmoulds. Outer sides have gabled south vestries with gable stacks with cross-gabled caps. In each gable a cusped double lancet with a trefoil window above. Shallow north porches have elaborate gables and moulded doorways with shafts and hoodmoulds. Between the porches and vestries, 2 double lancets. Inner sides have also 2 double lancets, all with hoodmoulds. Beyond the links, single smaller lancets. INTERIORS: have arch braced principal rafter roofs with traceried spandrels and wind braces. Moulded sill and eaves bands. Plain benches. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).
Listing NGR: SK3590689110
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455669
- 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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