Loxley Cemetery Re Visit Featuring Burnt Chapel

Описание: This is my 2d visit to this cemetery, I was here to film what remains of the burnt out chapel, apparently it was arson.
PLEASE if you can be a volunteer, you are most welcome details below.

This is A big THANK YOU ! for the group of Volunteers from
The Friends Of Loxley Cemetery
Tel: +44 07879 075619
Email:[email protected]
Website: : https://e-voice.org.uk/friendsofloxle...

Volunteers are Welcome
1st and 3rd Saturday every month 13:30 - 16:00

The Great Sheffield Flood 11th March 1864
There is 22 Victims of the Sheffield Flood Buried in this Cemetery

The Great Sheffield Flood was a flood that devastated parts of Sheffield, England, on 11 March 1864, when the Dale Dyke Dam broke as its reservoir was being filled for the first time.
At least 240 people died and more than 600 houses were damaged or destroyed by the flood.
The immediate cause was a crack in the embankment, the cause of which was never determined. The dam's failure led to reforms in engineering practice, setting standards on specifics that needed to be met when constructing such large-scale structures. The dam was rebuilt in 1875.

Loxley Cemetery, Long Lane, Loxley, Sheffield, S6 6RL

Cemetery and 18th century chapel, now ruined.

Loxley Chapel was built in 1787 and closed in 1993.
It is a Grade 2* listed building. Originally built as an Anglican church, it was rented out to Protestant Dissenters or Independents in 1798, and they subsequently bought the building.
The families buried in the plots are from all over Sheffield.
The chapel and graveyard became privately owned when the chapel closed and sadly have been neglected ever since. Unfortunately, the chapel suffered a serious fire in 2016 and now is a roofless ruin.

The churchyard surrounds the chapel on three sides, the first recorded burial being 1806 and burials are still taking place on existing family plots, although no new burials plots are allowed. The area of the cemetery covers just over 10 acres and is home to over 4000 burial plots.

It is an important part of local history, and the cemetery contains graves of interest including 13 War Commission graves and graves of some of the victims of the Sheffield Flood of 1864. The chapel could hold 1000 worshippers, and attracted an afternoon congregation of up to 200, according to the Religious Census of 1855.