The Blitz Grave 200 Metres East Of The Crematorium At City Road Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1995. Mass grave.

The Blitz Grave 200 Metres East Of The Crematorium At City Road Cemetery

WRENN ID
sheer-tallow-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sheffield
Country
England
Date first listed
12 December 1995
Type
Mass grave
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE CITY ROAD 784-1/6/181 (East side (off)) The Blitz Grave 200m east of Crematorium at City Road Cemetery

II

Mass grave of air raid victims. c1941. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings. Low wall with slab coping, backed by a hedge, surrounding a kidney-shaped enclosure. At the entrance, a pair of square stone piers with flat caps and ramped coped flanking walls with inscribed tablets. Inside, a curved path flanked by low walls with slab coping, leading to an octagonal enclosure surrounded by a similar wall. This has a granite band inscribed with the victims' names. HISTORICAL NOTE: the grave contains the bodies of 134 citizens killed in air raids on 12 and 15 Dec. 1940.

Listing NGR: SK3763185956

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