Sheffield General Cemetery
I take a look around the Sheffield General Cemetery with it's interesting memorials, catacombs and architecture.
Tombstones. Non-conformist Chapel. General Cemetery. Sheffield
I just went the other day to the Building & Architectural Tour... it was amazing. 2 years of building, such a master plan... and what's left / become in the last 50 years.
The General Cemetery in the City of Sheffield, England 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 listed Landscape (Grade II*) on the English Heritage National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. It is also a Local Nature Reserve. It is owned by the City of Sheffield and managed on behalf of them by a local community group, the Sheffield General Cemetery Trust
History
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 (1779--1870) on the site of a former quarry. Robert Marnock who also designed Sheffield Botanical Gardens (1836) and Weston Park (1873) acted as a landscape consultant for this initial phase. The first burial was of Mary Ann Fish, a victim of tuberculosis. An Anglican cemetery with a chapel designed by William Flockton and a landscape laid out by Robert Marnock was consecrated alongside the Nonconformist cemetery in 1846—the wall that divided the unconsecrated and consecrated ground can still be seen today. By 1916 the cemetery was rapidly filling up and running out of space, burials in family plots continued through the 1950s and 1960s, but by 1978 ownership of the cemetery had passed to Sheffield City Council and it was closed to all new burials. In 1980 the council got permission by Act of Parliament to clear 800 gravestones to make a recreation area. Through the 1980s and 1990s most of the rest of the cemetery was left untouched, becoming overgrown and an important sanctuary for local wildlife. Unfortunately, many of the buildings also fell into disrepair. In early 2003 work began to restore the gatehouse and catacombs funded by a £500,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The restored gatehouse now houses the offices of the Sheffield General Cemetery Trust.
Notable buildings and structures
The Gatehouse (Grade II* listed) is built directly over the Porter Brook in a Classical architectural style with Egyptian features. The gateway itself resembles a Roman arch. It was possibly built over the river so that entering the cemetery was symbolic of the crossing of the river Styx in Greek mythology.
The Egyptian Gate (Grade II* listed) forms the entrance to the cemetery on Cemetery Road. It is richly ornamented and possesses gates bearing ouroboros, two coiled snakes holding their tails in their mouths.
The Nonconformist chapel (Grade II* listed) is built in a classical style with Egyptian features. The sculpted panel above the door shows a dove, representing the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit. Stone steps lead down to a wall with catacomb-like entrances.
The Anglican chapel (added in 1850; Grade II listed). Designed in the Neo-Gothic style by William Flockton. Unlike the other buildings in the cemetery, the chapel was built in Gothic style rather than Classical or Egyptian. The building is distinctive in style due to its ogival windows, the porte-cochere and the spire. The spire is indeed far too big for the rest of the building, built purposely so that it would be seen from afar.
The Registrar's house (Grade II listed)
The Catacombs. There are two rows of catacombs built into the hillside, this method of burial was unpopular and only ten bodies were laid to rest in the catacombs in the first 10 years.
The Dissenters' Wall was built between 1848 and 1850. It divided the older Nonconformist part of the cemetery from the consecrated Anglican ground. The wall runs almost uninterrupted, from the perimeter wall on Cemetery Road to the path beside the Porter Brook at the bottom of the cemetery.
The Sheffield General Cemetery Trust
GENERAL CEMETERY SHEFFIELD
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Sheffield General Cemetery
My photographs of the Sheffield General Cemetery, along with some subtitle commentary. I do not hold copywright on the audio, which is The Heritage Orchestra - Sky Breaks. It is posted purely to soundtrack the pictures, and to expose the music to a wider audience. No infringement intended.
Sheffield General Cemetery: The ABANDONED GRAVEYARD: Does the Skeptic get SPIRITUAL?
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. In 1978 the graveyard closed and was abandoned leaving it for mother nature to take it back.
What does the team encounter on our look round of this abandoned graveyard
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True Earth, General Cemetry Sheffield , England - Pt 2
Another facinating Old Graveyard tour ,with some real history ,from miss havisham :)
Graveyard Cemetery architect: Samuel Worth: Anglican church Restoration by William Flockton: Landscaping by Robert Marnock i836
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Sheffield General cemetery catacombs.
This is a fly through of the interpretation of GPR and TLS data collected from the catacombs at the Sheffield General Cemetery. The background is stock footage provided by AutoDesk Showcase.
Place-keeping in Sheffield: The Sheffield General Cemetery Trust
A film by the Place-keeping Group at the University of Sheffield. Created as part of the European Union Interreg IVB funded research MP4 project 'Making Places Profitable: public and private open spaces', carried out between 2008 and 2012.
The film aims to take a closer look at The Sheffield General Cemetery Trust's (SGCT) role in place-keeping in Sheffield, by analysing them in terms of the 6 place-keeping dimensions (see the 'Introduction to Place-keeping' film)
SGCT is an example of Trust-led involvement in place-keeping, that operates on a site-specific scale.
Other Place-keeping films include: Introduction to Place-keeping; Place-keeping in Sheffield: Sheaf Valley Park: South Street Park; Place-keeping in Sheffield: Firth Park: Ripples in The Pond; Place-keeping in Sheffield: Wyming Brook, The Wildlife Trust for Sheffield and Rotherham.
SHEFFIELD GENERAL CEMETERY PART 1
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sheffield general cemetry
Sheffield general cemetry in the snow, to the tune of nick drakes 'way to blue'
Yorkshire Urban Orienteering League - General Cemetery & Broomhall (Sheffield)
For the first time I ran in the cemetery ... it was spooky! Course Green - 4.4 km 25 cp.
True Earth, Nunhead Cemetry London, Victorian chapel ,or resoration?
another fascinating walk & talk for jaxdreaming as she visits another of Lonndons cemetries .
here is a wword form the video creator .
The second of my visits to London's 'Magnificent Seven' Victorian cemeteries. Established in the 1840's in response to the increasing numbers of dead, mostly the poor, and overfilled graveyards within the city.
The Anatomy Act of 1832 made dissection of the bodies of the poor legal... also a next of kin could give a body up for research. At this time the majority of people believed that you could not be accepted into Heaven unless your body was intact and so the prospect of ending up on an Anatomist's table must have been terrifying.
It is also theorised that the tradition of 'lying in wake' may have been a response to the Anatomy Act as people could keep tabs on their loved ones and the anatomist's liked their bodies fresh!
Once the Cemeteries became fashionable and the rich and famous were interred their everybody wanted in and this was the heyday of the elaborate funeral and certain rituals which still continue today.
Death became big business
The rich brought plots to ensure their place in the afterlife... the poor were buried together in unmarked graves; if they made it that far!
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Sheffield General Cemetery Investigation
SHEFFIELD GENERAL CEMETERY PART 2
Thanks for watching this video that was filmed for my paranormal group called South Yorkshire Ghost hunters.
If you are interested in ghost hunting and the paranormal and you live close to Rawmarsh Rotherham then why not come and check us out at the Monkwood Pub Rawmarsh Rotherham every thursday 7.30pm till 11pm also you can telephone 07450291602 and ask for martin we also do events around south yorkshire and lincolnshire please add our facebook web page for up coming events
HAUNTED & ABANDONED Wardsend Cemetery Sheffield UK - GHOSTS CAUGHT IN GRAVEYARD
All photos were captured by myself
Wardsend Cemetery is an abandoned Victorian cemetery on the the Owlerton district of Sheffield, England, consecrated by the Archbishop of York in 1859 and closed to legal burial in 1968.
The ground on which the cemetery stands was originally purchased by John Livesey in 1857, the Vicar of the nearby St. Philip's Church as an overspill burial ground.
The first burial at Wardsend was of a 2-year-old girl named Ann Marie Marsden in 1857. She is, in keeping with tradition, the Guardian of the Cemetery.
The graveyard is also noteworthy for being the final resting place of George Lambert, a highly decorated Irish soldier, for holding graves of many victims of the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864, and being the only cemetery in Britain with an active railway line passing through it.
Sheffield Archives offers much material on the history of the cemetery, perhaps most significantly a detailed narrative account of the 1862 riot and subsequent court hearings entitled Extraordinary Doings in a Cemetery in Sheffield by Ivor Haythorne,]and a 2013 dissertation project (heavily influenced by the history from below movement spearheaded by E.P. Thompson and George Rudé) called Crisis of Confidence: The Public Response to the 1862 Sheffield Resurrection Scandal by Jordan Lee Smith.
1862 Riot
On the evening of 3 June 1862 the cemetery was the location of a turbulent riot by angry Sheffield citizens, against accusations that the Reverend John Livesey and his sexton Isaac Howard were neglecting to bury corpses, and instead selling them to the town's medical school for use in anatomical dissection. The rumours were proven false and Livesey and Howard were instead fined by York Assizes for reusing graves in order to save space. However both were later paid compensation for the damage caused to their property during the riot, and Livesey was reinstated as the Vicar of St. Philip's Church.
Today Livesey Street, now home to the Hillsborough campus of The Sheffield College as well as the back entrance to Owlerton Stadium is named after the Reverend Livesey.
A memorial stone at the nearby Walled Garden in Hillsborough Park alludes to the unrest; it is a stone four feet long by 18 inches wide, designed to lie flat on the ground and cover a grave. The inscription reads:
To the affectionate rememberance of Frank Bacon.Who departed this life April 2nd 1854, aged three years.Also Louis Bacon aged four months Buried in Wardsend Cemetery April 12th 1858.And was one of the many found in 1862. Who had been so ruthlessly disinterred
Sheffield Abandoned Cemetery
Sheffield Abandoned Victorian Cemetery
THE GENERAL Cemetery SHEFFIELD
INSIDE THE CHURCH
Porter Croft C of E School Y6 pupils invite you to visit the Sheffield General Cemetery, in Sharrow
A short video written, produced and presented by Y6 pupils of Porter Croft C of E Primary Academy inviting you to visit the Sheffield General Cemetery in Sharrow, S11.
The children explain in this video some of the reasons to come and explore this historic site.
The Sheffield General Cemetery is a unique heritage site and a nature reserve with 10 listed monuments situated on a listed Grade II* 15 acre landscape.
Visit Sheffield General Cemetery's website at gencem.org for more details about the events that we host so you can learn about the Cemetery's rich history and it's wildlife.
True Earth Real History, General Cemetery Sheffield early 19th Century
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BEIL-TIN Pagan Fire god feast day;Remote & Undisturbed was architect Samuel Worth's vision: 96,000 souls
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Thomas Youdan's defaced monument in the Sheffield General cemetery
Thomas Youdan: The man behind the world’s oldest football trophy.(See my blog for more information about the actual tournament and there is a lot more information about the Youdan Cup in my new book )