St Michaels Cemetery Chapel
ST MICHAELS CEMETERY CHAPEL, RIVELIN VALLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247140
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- St Michaels Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- ST MICHAELS CEMETERY CHAPEL, RIVELIN VALLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247140
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- St Michaels Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MICHAELS CEMETERY CHAPEL, RIVELIN VALLEY 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:
- ST MICHAELS CEMETERY CHAPEL, RIVELIN VALLEY 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 32244 88421
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NW RIVELIN VALLEY ROAD 784-1/5/627 (South East side) 10/12/84 St Michael's Cemetery Chapel (Formerly Listed as: RIVELIN GLEN St Michael's Cemetery Chapel)
GV II
Roman Catholic cemetery chapel. 1877-78. By Charles Hadfield. Paid for by GH Foster, whose monument (qv) is outside the west door. Coursed squared stone (Greenmoor) with ashlar dressings (Worrall) and plain tile roof. Gothic Revival style. PLAN: nave with apsidal east end, south-west porch and north-west vestry. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, sillband, quoins, coped gables to nave and porch. 5 bay nave has 4 single lancets on each side and 3 in the apse. West gable has a moulded and gabled door and above it, a 2-light pointed arch window with trefoil tracery, set between prominent buttresses which support the chamfered, gabled single bellcote. Porch has a pointed doorway with hoodmould and above it, a niche with a figure of St Michael. Vestry has a 2-light pointed arch window in its gable and a side wall stack with double round shafts. INTERIOR: has wagon roof with moulded wall plate. Chamfered doorways. East end has polished marble sanctuary wall and altar with alabaster figure of the dead Christ below the mensa by Hadfield, sculpted by RL Bouton of Cheltenham. East end glazing, 1878, designed by JF Bentley, executed by Lavers, Barrand & Westlake. Rood, west window and chancel paintings and decorations by NHJ Westlake, 1884. Stations of the Cross by Hadfield and Bouton. GH Foster also donated the fittings.
Listing NGR: SK3224488421
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456363
- 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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