Cemetery Chapels At Burngreave Cemetery

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE MELROSE ROAD 784-1/6/509 (North side (off)) 28/06/73 Cemetery chapels at Burngreave Cemetery (Formerly Listed as: MELROSE ROAD Pair of chapels with clock tower at Burngreave Cemetery)

GV II

Cemetery chapels, now stores. 1860-61. By Flockton & Lee. Coursed rubble and dressed stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. Symmetrical layout with central tower and spire joined by single storey links to the chapels, which have large side vestries and porches. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, string course, sillband, angle buttresses, coped gables with kneelers and crosses. 3 stage tower has a central moulded archway with single shafts and hoodmould, to north and south. Above these, a clock, and to east and west a single lancet. Bell stage has a deeply moulded 2-light pointed arch bell opening on each side under a coped gable. Spire has a tapering square base surmounted by a square bell turret with double lancet openings on each side under moulded gables. Above this, an octagonal needle spire with a tier of tiny lucarnes, topped with a cross. Links have a cusped double lancet with central shaft. Chapels south gables have moulded doorways with hoodmoulds and above them, traceried wheel windows with moulded surrounds. North gables have 4-light pointed arch windows with hoodmoulds. Outer sides have gabled south vestries with gable stacks with cross-gabled caps. In each gable a cusped double lancet with a trefoil window above. Shallow north porches have elaborate gables and moulded doorways with shafts and hoodmoulds. Between the porches and vestries, 2 double lancets. Inner sides have also 2 double lancets, all with hoodmoulds. Beyond the links, single smaller lancets. INTERIORS: have arch braced principal rafter roofs with traceried spandrels and wind braces. Moulded sill and eaves bands. Plain benches. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3590689110