Catacombs At Sheffield General Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 2001. A C19 Cemetery structure. 5 related planning applications.
Catacombs At Sheffield General Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- western-portal-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 2001
- Type
- Cemetery structure
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SHEFFIELD
784-1/0/10187 CEMETERY AVENUE 31-JUL-01 CATACOMBS AT SHEFFIELD GENERAL CEMETERY (Formerly listed as: CATACOMBS AT SHARROW CEMETERY)
II
Also Known As: CATACOMBS AT SHEFFIELD GENERAL CEMETERY, CEMETERY ROAD Two tiers of catacombs. 1836, enlarged 1935 and blocked late C20. Designed by Samuel Worth, the architect to the General Cemetery Company. Coursed and tooled rough ashlar with ashlar dressings and late C20 concrete additions.
Two serpentine curved and slightly battered walls form terraces running from east to west. The upper terrace wall is 130 metres long and 3 metres in height with roll moulded ashlar coping, topped by a late C20 blank concrete wall and concrete balustrade. This wall slopes downwards to the west. The lower terrace wall 100 metres long and approximately 2 metres high with a set of stone steps at the east end.
All the original openings to the original catacombs have battered surrounds. They have all been blocked.
Listing NGR: SK3498187017
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