Cemeteries in Sheffield - Sheffield General Cemetery, City Road Cemetery, Tinsley Park Cemetery, Norton Cemetery, Crookes Cemetery (Paperback)

Chapters: Sheffield General Cemetery, City Road Cemetery, Tinsley Park Cemetery, Norton Cemetery, Crookes Cemetery. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The General Cemetery is a cemetery in the City of Sheffield, England that opened in 1836, and closed for burial in 1978. It was the principal cemetery in Victorian Sheffield with over 87,000 burials. Today it is a conservation area (one of only six in South Yorkshire), and it is listed on the English Heritage National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. It is owned by the City of Sheffield and managed on behalf of them by local community group Sheffield General Cemetery Trust. The cemetery (grid reference SK342859) is located to the south-west of central Sheffield. It is in the district called Sharrow, on a north-facing hillside between Sharrow Vale and Sharrow Head. The Porter Brook runs along its north-western edge, the south-eastern boundary is Cemetery Road. The Cemetery in the 1830s, seen from Ecclesall Road.The General Cemetery was one of the first commercial landscape cemeteries in Britain. Its opening in 1836 as a Nonconformist cemetery was a response to the rapid growth of Sheffield and the relatively poor state of the town's churchyards. The cemetery, with its Greek Doric and Egyptian style buildings, was designed by Sheffield architect Samuel Worth (17791870) on the site of a former quarry. Landscaping was managed by Robert Marnock, who also designed Sheffield Botanical Gardens (1836) and Weston Park (1873). The first burial was of Mary Ann Fish, a victim of tuberculosis. An Anglican cemetery was consecrated alongside the Nonconformist cemetery in 1846the wall that divided the un-consecrated and consecrated ground can still be seen today. By 1916 the cemetery was rapidly filling up ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1684587