Gateway to General Cemetery With Screen and Flanking Walls
GATEWAY TO GENERAL CEMETERY WITH SCREEN AND FLANKING WALLS, CEMETERY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247054
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway to General Cemetery With Screen and Flanking Walls
- Statutory Address:
- GATEWAY TO GENERAL CEMETERY WITH SCREEN AND FLANKING WALLS, CEMETERY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247054
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway to General Cemetery With Screen and Flanking Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEWAY TO GENERAL CEMETERY WITH SCREEN AND FLANKING WALLS, CEMETERY 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:
- GATEWAY TO GENERAL CEMETERY WITH SCREEN AND FLANKING WALLS, CEMETERY 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:
- SK3422185836
Details
784-1/37/158
08-SEP-70
SHEFFIELD
CEMETERY ROAD
(Northwest side)
GATEWAY TO GENERAL CEMETERY WITH SCREEN AND FLANKING WALLS
GV
II*
Gateway and screen and flanking walls. 1836. Probably by
Samuel Worth. Ashlar. Egyptian Revival style. Plinth and
moulded coping. Gateway in the form of a pylon, with roll
moulding, and behudet (winged sun motif) in the cornice.
Chamfered gabled opening with wrought-iron gates with serpent
motif. Screen walls end with square piers with tapered hollow
chamfers and flat caps. Flanking walls, coursed squared stone
with gabled stone coping, extend to right approx 5m and to
left approx 70m To left, a chamfered square headed gateway.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West
Riding: London: 1967-: 459).
Listing NGR: SK3422185836
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456202
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 459
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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