Roman Catholic Mortuary Chapel at City Road Cemetery
ROMAN CATHOLIC MORTUARY CHAPEL AT CITY ROAD CEMETERY, CITY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247250
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Mortuary Chapel at City Road Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC MORTUARY CHAPEL AT CITY ROAD CEMETERY, CITY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247250
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Mortuary Chapel at City Road Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC MORTUARY CHAPEL AT CITY ROAD CEMETERY, CITY ROAD
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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:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC MORTUARY CHAPEL 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 37558 86218
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NE CITY ROAD 784-1/6/180 (East side (off)) Roman Catholic mortuary chapel at City Road Cemetery
GV II
Roman Catholic mortuary chapel of St Michael. 1898-1900. By C Hadfield, paid for by the Duke of Norfolk. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs. Gothic Revival style. Chancel with lantern, sacristy, nave and west porch. EXTERIOR: plinth, sillband and buttresses. Hexagonal chancel has 2 single lancets on the north and south sides, and is topped with an hexagonal lantern with a larger single lancet on 5 sides, and a round-arched trefoil window to west. Chancel and lantern have hipped roofs, the lantern topped with a cross. Single storey square sacristy has coped parapet and a large square external corner stack with an octagonal flue. Single windows to north and east, and stone doorcase to south, all blocked. Nave has coped west gable with finial. 3 single lancets on each side, and in the west gable, a graduated triple lancet. Central west porch has similar coped gable and finial with moulded round-arched double door. INTERIOR has a hexagonal arcade under the lantern, with moulded pointed arches and hoodmoulds. Above the west arch, a round window. East end has a moulded segmental pointed recess. Nave has a lath and plaster groin vault with moulded wooden ribs and tie beams. West end has a round cornered chamfered doorway with double doors. Building vacant at time of survey. (150 Years of Architectural Drawing: Hadfield, Cawkwell, Davidson: Sheffield: 1984-: 71).
Listing NGR: SK3755886218
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456584
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, Cawkwell, Davidson, , 150 Years of Architectural Drawing, (1984), 71
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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