mark@alpha Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 iv just taken a look but its the red bricks i want Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 There are two churches towards the bottom of cemetery road. The one nearest Waitrose is the baptist church. Then just before Greens health club, there's a very plain and simple chapel which I think is a Brethren Chapel. (I may be wrong on that count) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soft ayperth Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 I'll go on Google and look but the one I'm thinking of is on the LHS going down the hill into Sheffield, surrounded by graves. It looked to me last time I was there 3 years ago that the only ones using it were the pigeons but I'll check. ---------- Post added 24-05-2013 at 15:17 ---------- OK. I have it now. The building, a spire like one, and the graveyard are directly opposite where Grange Rd intersects with Cemetery Rd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltheof Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 I'll go on Google and look but the one I'm thinking of is on the LHS going down the hill into Sheffield, surrounded by graves. It looked to me last time I was there 3 years ago that the only ones using it were the pigeons but I'll check. ---------- Post added 24-05-2013 at 15:17 ---------- OK. I have it now. The building, a spire like one, and the graveyard are directly opposite where Grange Rd intersects with Cemetery Rd. The neo-Gothic chapel is part of the General Cemetery. The cemetery was closed in the 1970s and passed to the Council, who moved in to clear part of the site. However, a group was set up to preserve the cemetery, which is now called the Sheffield General Cemetery Trust, and has recently been successful in getting money to restore the classical Non-Conformist chapel on the site (the gatehouse was restored some years ago). If you want to know more, visit the website at http://www.gencem.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soft ayperth Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 The neo-Gothic chapel is part of the General Cemetery. The cemetery was closed in the 1970s and passed to the Council, who moved in to clear part of the site. However, a group was set up to preserve the cemetery, which is now called the Sheffield General Cemetery Trust, and has recently been successful in getting money to restore the classical Non-Conformist chapel on the site (the gatehouse was restored some years ago). If you want to know more, visit the website at http://www.gencem.org/ Thanks for this. It just looked neglected from the roadway. I guess if it's volunteers who are maintaining it they are doing the best they can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark@alpha Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 It's a fantastic building but it won't be long til it's ruined with the roof and windows as they are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark@alpha Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Still trying to find the owner of this site...I hung a sign on the fence but it must have been recycled,,,it seems strange the council won't let me recycle a few bricks and clean the place up but it's ok to throw your rubbish and old mattresses on the site so it won't be too long as its full of rubbish running wild with rats and whatever else so then the locals will be going crackers again,,,,,there are mattresses actually dumped there and various other items and rubbish sacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscar2157 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 (edited) Still trying to find the owner of this site...I hung a sign on the fence but it must have been recycled,,,it seems strange the council won't let me recycle a few bricks and clean the place up but it's ok to throw your rubbish and old mattresses on the site so it won't be too long as its full of rubbish running wild with rats and whatever else so then the locals will be going crackers again,,,,,there are mattresses actually dumped there and various other items and rubbish sacks Is there anything left standing now.. ? I got some photo's of the remains of some plaster arches and some walls on the 19th.April. The small spire was laid intact among the rubble... I climbed up on a pile of bricks... about where we would have stood to marry ... on the 26th. May 1973. 40 years ago ! most nostalgic..... Edited June 18, 2013 by oscar2157 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Oscar, there's very little left, sadly. There's a little bit of the frontage of the newer section of the building (the 1906 section) but the whole of the 1889 building is gone. Mark@alpha:- the brick, stone and timber are being recycled and sold by the blokes demolishing the building. You must have seen the signs on the fence and the door? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark@alpha Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 That's a different building has everyone forgotten the huge fire already,,check it out on you tube ---------- Post added 19-06-2013 at 07:35 ---------- I'm trying to preserve a bit of Sheffield dying heritage not make a profit,,the church that stood on the corner of Vincent road is all but a pile of rubble and rubbish now the profit has been made from the building I just want to save some of the rubble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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