CATACOMBS AT SHEFFIELD GENERAL CEMETERY

CATACOMBS AT SHEFFIELD GENERAL CEMETERY, CEMETERY AVENUE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389316
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-2001
List Entry Name:: CATACOMBS AT SHEFFIELD GENERAL CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: CATACOMBS AT SHEFFIELD GENERAL CEMETERY, CEMETERY AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389316
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-2001
Date of most recent amendment:: 10-Feb-2009
List Entry Name:: CATACOMBS AT SHEFFIELD GENERAL CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: CATACOMBS AT SHEFFIELD GENERAL CEMETERY, CEMETERY AVENUE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CATACOMBS AT SHEFFIELD GENERAL CEMETERY, CEMETERY AVENUE

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 34096 85937

Details

SHEFFIELD

784-1/0/10187 CEMETERY AVENUE 31-JUL-01 CATACOMBS AT SHEFFIELD GENERAL CEMETERY (Formerly listed as: CATACOMBS AT SHARROW CEMETERY)

II

Also Known As: CATACOMBS AT SHEFFIELD GENERAL CEMETERY, CEMETERY ROAD Two tiers of catacombs. 1836, enlarged 1935 and blocked late C20. Designed by Samuel Worth, the architect to the General Cemetery Company. Coursed and tooled rough ashlar with ashlar dressings and late C20 concrete additions.

Two serpentine curved and slightly battered walls form terraces running from east to west. The upper terrace wall is 130 metres long and 3 metres in height with roll moulded ashlar coping, topped by a late C20 blank concrete wall and concrete balustrade. This wall slopes downwards to the west. The lower terrace wall 100 metres long and approximately 2 metres high with a set of stone steps at the east end.

All the original openings to the original catacombs have battered surrounds. They have all been blocked.

Listing NGR: SK3498187017

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 487958
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.