Intake Village Cemetery in Sheffield, South Yorkshire

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Get directions Mansfield Road
Sheffield, Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire S12 2AJ England

Coordinates: 53.35699, -1.41513
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Intake Cemetery not to be confused with Sheffield Intake Cemetery, later renamed City Road Cemetery.

It was opened in 1880, the first interment taking place on 16 February. The cemetery covers 12 acres and has a chapel that is a grade II listed building.[Date Listed: 12 December 1995]

The cemetery chapel is of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and stone slate roof gothic Revival style, Plinth, sillband, eaves corbels, coped gables, the east one shouldered, the west one with gable stack. Single storey; 2 window range. East gable has deeper plinth and flanking buttresses. Projecting centre has a traceried 3-light pointed arch window with hoodmould, finial and stops. Above it, a ventilator. Below, a chamfered and moulded segment-headed doorway under a shallow gable, with double board doors. On either side, a flat-headed 2-light window with panel tracery and leaded glazing, some renewed. West gable has deep plinth and a 4-light pointed arch window.

INTERIOR: has arch braced principal rafter roof with false
hammer beams.
Innocent & Brown designed the chapel at Woodhouse Cemetery, Stradbroke Road (qv), in a similar style.

There are 25 war graves dotted around the cemetery.
[text by Stephen Farnell]