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
- Constituency
- Sheffield Heeley MP: Louise Haigh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1995
- Type
- Mass grave
- OS grid reference
- SK 376 859
- Coordinates
- 53.36915, -1.43591
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Blitz Grave, located 200 meters east of the crematorium at City Road Cemetery in Sheffield, is a mass grave of air raid victims dating from around 1941. It is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings. The grave is enclosed by a low wall with slab coping, backed by a hedge, creating a kidney-shaped area. At the entrance, there are a pair of square stone piers with flat caps, flanked by ramped coped walls that feature inscribed tablets. Inside, a curved path bordered by low walls with slab coping leads to an octagonal enclosure, which is surrounded by a similar wall. This enclosure has a granite band inscribed with the names of the victims. The grave holds the bodies of 134 citizens who were killed in air raids on December 12 and 15, 1940.
Local climate
The Blitz Grave 200 Metres East of the Crematorium at City Road Cemetery receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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