The Blitz Grave 200 Metres East of the Crematorium at City Road Cemetery
THE BLITZ GRAVE 200 METRES EAST OF THE CREMATORIUM AT CITY ROAD CEMETERY, CITY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247247
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Blitz Grave 200 Metres East of the Crematorium at City Road Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- THE BLITZ GRAVE 200 METRES EAST OF THE CREMATORIUM AT CITY ROAD CEMETERY, CITY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247247
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Blitz Grave 200 Metres East of the Crematorium at City Road Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BLITZ GRAVE 200 METRES EAST OF THE CREMATORIUM 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:
- THE BLITZ GRAVE 200 METRES EAST OF THE CREMATORIUM 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 37631 85956
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NE CITY ROAD 784-1/6/181 (East side (off)) The Blitz Grave 200m east of Crematorium at City Road Cemetery
II
Mass grave of air raid victims. c1941. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings. Low wall with slab coping, backed by a hedge, surrounding a kidney-shaped enclosure. At the entrance, a pair of square stone piers with flat caps and ramped coped flanking walls with inscribed tablets. Inside, a curved path flanked by low walls with slab coping, leading to an octagonal enclosure surrounded by a similar wall. This has a granite band inscribed with the victims' names. HISTORICAL NOTE: the grave contains the bodies of 134 citizens killed in air raids on 12 and 15 Dec. 1940.
Listing NGR: SK3763185956
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456581
- 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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