Roman Catholic Mortuary Chapel At City Road Cemetery

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