Monument to Mark Firth 60 Metres East of New Chapel at General Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. Monument.

Monument to Mark Firth 60 Metres East of New Chapel at General Cemetery

WRENN ID
muffled-obsidian-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sheffield
Constituency
Sheffield Central MP: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Monument
Address
Monument to Mark Firth 60 Metres East of New Chapel at General Cemetery, S11 8NT
OS grid reference
SK 341 859
Coordinates
53.36907, -1.4877
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a memorial monument located 60 meters east of the New Chapel at the General Cemetery in Sheffield, dating from around 1880. It is made of sandstone and granite and features a cross-gabled inscribed pedestal topped with a draped urn, all set on a stepped and partly vermiculated plinth. The base is chamfered, and there is a chamfered inscribed slab. The monument is surrounded by a round-cornered cast-iron railing that sits on a chamfered stone plinth. Mark Firth, the individual commemorated by this monument, was a prominent steel maker and public benefactor in 19th century Sheffield.

Local climate

Monument to Mark Firth 60 Metres East of New Chapel at General Cemetery receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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