Description

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE BARLEYWOOD ROAD 784-1/6/61 Pair of Chapels at Tinsley Park 28/06/73 Cemetery (Formerly Listed as: BARLEYWOOD ROAD Pair of chapels and connecting gateway at Tinsley Park Cemetery)

GV II

Cemetery chapels, one now used as a store. Dated 1880. By Holmes & Johnson. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched slate roofs with 2 shouldered coped side wall stacks. Gothic Revival style. Symmetrical layout with central entrance bay flanked by chapels with side porches. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth and eaves, buttresses, coped parapets and gables with crosses. Western entrance has a moulded central arch and smaller flanking arches with round piers and hoodmoulds. Above, shouldered gable with clock. On either side, a thin buttressed bell tower with octagonal bell stage topped with an octagonal spire. To left, dated foundation stone. Chapel west ends have angle buttresses and 3-light pointed arched windows with Geometrical tracery and hoodmoulds. The east end has the same design without the bell towers. The chapels' outer sides have 4 quatrefoil windows and to east, single gabled porches with single lancets in the gables, with hoodmoulds. On the east sides, a chamfered cusped flat-headed doorway. Entrance bay interior has a 3 bay wooden arcade with turned posts and roll moulded segmental pointed arches. Strutted common rafter roof. On either side, 2 chamfered doorways with hoodmoulds and double doors. INTERIOR: rendered chapel interior has string course and arch braced principal rafter roof with traceried spandrels and corbels. 2 double doors with depressed segmental heads and moulded flat canopies with single shafts. On the other side, a doorway with hoodmould into the porch. The partnership of Holmes & Johnson existed from 1869-1887, though SF Holmes died in 1882. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3950088658

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990