James Nicholson Memorial in General Cemetery
JAMES NICHOLSON MEMORIAL IN GENERAL CEMETERY, CEMETERY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376265
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- James Nicholson Memorial in General Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- JAMES NICHOLSON MEMORIAL IN GENERAL CEMETERY, CEMETERY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376265
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- James Nicholson Memorial in General Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- JAMES NICHOLSON MEMORIAL IN GENERAL CEMETERY, CEMETERY 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:
- JAMES NICHOLSON MEMORIAL IN GENERAL CEMETERY, 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:
- SK 34180 85913
Details
SK 3485 NW SHEFFIELD CEMETERY ROAD
784-1/37/10056 James Nicholson Memorial in
General Cemetery
GV II
Memorial monument. c.1872. Ashlar sandstone monument set within an elongated triangular enclosure. Elevated chest tomb surmounted by a statue of a woman kneeling at prayer. Tall stepped ashlar base, with chamfered plinth and tomb above, formerly with statues to each corner ( now removed), beneath bell-shapes canopies forming part of a moulded cornice, above which is set the statue. The tomb is set at the north end of the enclosure formed by a stepped ashlar plinth, surmounted by cast-iron panels with linked pierced circles and moulded posts.
The monument commemorates members of the Nicholson family, including Harriet Nicholson, (d.1876), her husband, who commissioned the monument (d.1909), and their children. The Nicholson family were prominent industrialists in Sheffield in the late C19. The monument stands close to that of another notable industrialist of the period, Mark Firth (item 37/162), with which it forms a group.
Listing NGR: SK3418085913
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470259
- 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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