Crematorium and Adjoining Chapels at City Road Cemetery
CREMATORIUM AND ADJOINING CHAPELS AT CITY ROAD CEMETERY, CITY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247246
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Crematorium and Adjoining Chapels at City Road Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- CREMATORIUM AND ADJOINING CHAPELS AT CITY ROAD CEMETERY, CITY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247246
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Crematorium and Adjoining Chapels at City Road Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- CREMATORIUM AND ADJOINING CHAPELS AT CITY ROAD CEMETERY, CITY 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:
- CREMATORIUM AND ADJOINING CHAPELS AT CITY ROAD CEMETERY, CITY 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 37393 85937
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NE CITY ROAD 784-1/6/183 (East side (off)) Crematorium and adjoining chapels at City Road Cemetery
II
Crematorium and adjoining chapel. Chapel (formerly Nonconformist) 1881, by ME Hadfield & Son for the Sheffield Burial Board. Crematorium 1904-05, by C & CM Hadfield for Sheffield City Council. Additional chapel and additions mid C20. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate and stone slate roofs. EXTERIOR: crematorium, C14 style, is based on the Abbot's Kitchen at Glastonbury. Octagonal plan, with diagonal buttresses at the angles, topped with gargoyles. String course and moulded parapet. On 3 sides, a 4-light window with flat head and label mould. Octagonal stone slate roof topped with a crenellated octagonal lantern enclosing the square metal stack. Glazed 2-light windows on each side. Adjoining chapel, to north-west, Perpendicular style, has plinth, sillband, coped parapet and gables. West gable has a central projection topped with a gabled double bell turret with octagonal finial. On either side, a traceried 2-light window with transom and hoodmould. East gable has diagonal buttresses and a 5-light pointed arch window with panel tracery and hoodmould. North side has 2 flat-headed 2-light windows flanked by buttresses, and beyond, similar 3-light windows, all with label moulds. South-east side has 2-light window. North-west porch has shouldered coped gable with 2-light window, and in the return angle, a doorway and window. Mid C20 chapel, to south, has a tall 3-light window to south, and single storey porches and projections to east and west. INTERIOR not inspected. (150 years of Architectural Drawing: Hadfield, Cawkwell & Davidson: Sheffield: 1984-: 48-50).
Listing NGR: SK3739385937
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456580
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, Cawkwell, Davidson, , 150 Years of Architectural Drawing, (1984), 48-50
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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