IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Cemetery Road, SHEFFIELD, S11 8FT
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Cemetery Road, S11 8FT by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (103 Images Found)
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The Registrar's House, Sheffield General Cemetery
Named Montague House the Registrar's House and office (Grade II* listed) were built in the Egyptian style. The property is now privately run offices.
Image: © David Rogers
Taken: 26 Oct 2009
0.01 miles
2
Sheffield General Cemetery
In 1834 the General Cemetery Company was formed to create a cemetery on nine acres of land in the Porter Valley. Opened in 1836, and used for burials until 1978 when half the site was demolished to make way for a green space.
Image: © David Rogers
Taken: 26 Oct 2009
0.01 miles
3
The Nonconformist Chapel, Sheffield General Cemetery
The Nonconformist Chapel (Grade II* listed) is built of local sandstone in an Egyptian style. The stone steps lead down to a wall with decorative catacomb-like entrances.
Image: © David Rogers
Taken: 26 Oct 2009
0.01 miles
4
A grave in Sheffield Sheffield General Cemetery
Having escaped the Cholera in St.Petersburg, Leopold died while taking part in an unofficial horse race down the Moor in the centre of Sheffield.
Image: © Dave Pickersgill
Taken: 4 Jan 2015
0.03 miles
5
Parker monument, General Cemetery, Sheffield
Based on the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, a well-used Classical Greek source. Dated 1837. The listing says it is marble. Grade II listed.
"Erected by the merchants and manufacturers of Sheffield in memory of William Parker, merchant."
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 13 Jun 2012
0.04 miles
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Cemetery offices, Cemetery Road, Sheffield
More evidence of the Egyptian Revival style used in the General Cemetery, although the columns are Doric. By Samuel Worth, who laid out the cemetery, 1834-36. Grade II listed.
The offices are now used by the Sheffield General Cemetery Trust which manages the cemetery on behalf of its owners, Sheffield City Council.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 13 Jun 2012
0.04 miles
7
Former Nonconformist Chapel, General Cemetery, Sheffield
The architectural highlight of the cemetery. A monumental pedimented Greek Doric portico, beyond which is an Egyptian Revival entrance. By Samuel Worth, who laid out the cemetery, 1834-36. Grade II* listed.
The aforementioned entrance is bricked up.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 13 Jun 2012
0.05 miles
8
Non Conformist Chapel, Sheffield General Cemetery
Looking up the steps to the front of the former Non Conformist Chapel in Sheffield General Cemetery. The chapel has stood disused since the cemetery closed to burials in the 1970s. The chapel is grade II* listed and in 2013 The Sheffield General Cemetery Trust was awarded funding to restore the building.
Image: © Graham Robson
Taken: 7 Jun 2007
0.05 miles
9
An entrance to the General Cemetery in Sheffield
The General Cemetery was opened in the Mid C19
Image: © Keith Pitchforth
Taken: 15 Apr 2010
0.05 miles
10
Bennet monument, General Cemetery, Sheffield
Dated c1850, by Edwin Smith. Bennet, a missionary, is shown leaning on a globe with a palm tree behind (the latter now barely discernible). Grade II listed.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 13 Jun 2012
0.05 miles