IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Norton Church Road, SHEFFIELD, S8 8JY
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Norton Church Road, S8 8JY 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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Image Listing (98 Images Found)
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Norton Hall and the tomb of Sir Francis Chantrey
Norton Hall was built in 1815 and is now split into apartments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Hall http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-455863-norton-hall-hospital-with-colonnade-and-#.Vq98ndCWOTw
Sir Francis Chantrey was an eminent nineteenth century sculptor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Leggatt_Chantrey
Image: © Jonathan Thacker
Taken: 30 Jan 2016
0.01 miles
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Norton Hall
Formerly a country house, built in 1815 on the site of previous houses, an NHS hospital and a private clinic, it was converted to private apartments in 1990.
Image: © Graham Hogg
Taken: 8 Apr 2020
0.01 miles
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Norton Hall, Sheffield
A large stone house with a Tuscan loggia, rusticated quoins, and a (too) shallow three-bay pediment. It dates from c1815 when it was largely rebuilt or remodelled by Samuel Shore (jr). Grade II* listed.
It served as a hospital for most of the post-war period, but was converted into flats in the 1990s.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 10 Aug 2002
0.01 miles
4
Norton Hall (1815)
There were earlier residences on this site before the present hall was commissioned by Samuel Shore in 1815. Earlier buildings dated back to Anglo-Saxon times. For most of the twentieth century the hall was used as a hospital and NHS clinic. Today it is split into luxury apartments.
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 3 Feb 2015
0.01 miles
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The grave of Sir Francis Chantrey
In Norton churchyard, Sheffield. Francis Leggatt Chantrey (1781-1841) was a self-taught sculptor who became Britain's leading portrait sculptor during the Regency period. Among his subjects were King George III, King George IV, George Washington, James Watt and William Pitt the Younger. He designed his own simple gravestone - leaving instructions that he was to be interred in his home parish churchyard after many years living and working in London.
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 16 Apr 2020
0.02 miles
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Norton Hall and Norton Parish Church
The present Norton Hall dates from 1815 but the Norton estate has great history and can be traced back to well before the Norman Conquest with the estate being mentioned in the last will and testament of the Anglo-Saxon nobleman Wulfric Spott who died c. 1002.
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 7 Feb 2014
0.02 miles
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Decorative stone spout on Norton church tower
Probably dating from the 1600's.
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 3 Feb 2015
0.03 miles
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St James parish church, Norton, Sheffield
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 20 Dec 2010
0.03 miles
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St James's Church, Norton
On the edge of Graves Park
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 22 Oct 2019
0.03 miles
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Head of Sir Francis Chantrey's statue
In St James's Church, Norton. The statue was created by John Bell to celebrate Britain's foremost portrait sculptor in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Chantrey was born in Norton in 1781 and is buried in St James's churchyard.
The sculptor John Bell (1811-1895) was himself very accomplished in the Victorian era. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bell_(sculptor)
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 25 Oct 2020
0.03 miles