Gateway to General Cemetery with Screen and Flanking Walls is a Grade II* listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Gateway.

Gateway to General Cemetery with Screen and Flanking Walls

WRENN ID
lesser-arch-bone
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Sheffield
Constituency
Sheffield Central MP: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Gateway
Period
Victorian
Address
Gateway to General Cemetery with Screen and Flanking Walls, Cemetery Road
OS grid reference
SK 342 858
Coordinates
53.3683, -1.48717
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gateway to the General Cemetery, along with its screen and flanking walls, was built in 1836, likely designed by Samuel Worth. It is constructed from ashlar stone and is in the Egyptian Revival style. The structure features a plinth and moulded coping, with the gateway designed as a pylon that includes roll moulding and a behudet, which is a winged sun motif, in the cornice. The opening is chamfered and gabled, fitted with wrought-iron gates that display a serpent motif. The screen walls terminate in square piers that have tapered hollow chamfers and flat caps. The flanking walls, made of coursed squared stone with gabled stone coping, extend approximately 5 meters to the right and about 70 meters to the left. On the left side, there is a chamfered square-headed gateway.

Local climate

Gateway to General Cemetery with Screen and Flanking Walls 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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