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City Road Cemetery, City Road
(originally called "Intake Cemetery",
Intake Road)
(Intake Road was renamed City Road in 1898)
Intake Road cemetery extending
from Intake Road, up the hill towards Manor Lodge, and opened 26th May 1881
at a cost including buildings of about £50,000, consits of 50 acres of
land, purchased by the Sheffield Burial Board from the Duke of Norfolk, for
a sum of £13,625 and is intended for the joint use of members of Church
of England, Non-comformists and Catholics At the principle entrance from the
Intake Road is a tower 120 ft high containing a clock with chimes There are
two chapels of stone, in the Tudor Gothic style from designs by Mssrs M E Hadfield
and son, architects The cemetery includes a porters lodge and waiting rooms
and is surrounded by a wall 7 ft high
Extract from kelly's (1883)
(See Sheffield
City Council list of Cemeteries for
cemetery addresses)
Sections V1 -V5 hold
many baby communal graves known as Common Graves
Section U is predominantly graves for the very young
Section Q is generally the area where ashes are scattered (or have been in recent
years)
Around many of the grave plot Section perimiters are unmarked graves usually
known as "Margin or Marginal Graves"
The plot or grave number/s of these "Margin" graves can vary considerably
to the number of the actual section plot or grave number/s
Margin graves can hold several occupants, none neccessarily related
To contact City Road the address is:
Bereavement Services,
City Road Cemetery,
City Road, Sheffield,
S2 1GD,
South Yorkshire,
England ,
Tel: 0114 239 6068
Email: Bereavementservices@sheffieldgovuk
The cemetery
offer a lookup service of Burial Registers for "Family History" purposes
There is a fee of £1210p per grave for this service This fee can now be
requested for ALL "Family History" research undertaken by the Bereavement
Services staff at the cemetery although I am led to believe that if the staff
are not busy they may undertake a specific lookup for free
The above information was obtained from City Road Cemetery Bereavement Services (Sept 2003)
Opened 1881 - RC areas HH, GG, KK, LL, FF, FF1 & R6
