Listed Building: CEMETERY CHAPEL AND MORTURARY (5.3.6)
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Grade | II |
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Authority | |
EH LBS Legacy ID | 429324 |
Date assigned | 14 April 1987 |
Date last amended |
Description
Cemetery chapel and mortuary linked by an archway. 1880. For Joseph Fearfield. C13 and C14 style. Brick and ashlar with slate roofs. Ashlar dressings. Chamfered plinth and eaves, moulded sill bands with stops, shouldered coped gables with gabled kneelers, windows are mainly lancets with linked hood moulds and stops. Single storey, 3 bays. West side has central stilted segmental arch with ringed shafts, flanked by corner buttresses, 2 setoffs. Above, granite lintel inscribed "This Cemetery ground is the gift of Joseph Fearfield, Esqre. Stapleford 1880". East side is similar but without ornament. Above again, 4 C13 style pinnacles. Octagonal spire has stepped base with gable and cross to west. Bell stage has 8 double lancet louvred openings, and moulded eaves with gargoyles. Spire has 4 gabled lucarnes, finial and cross. Flanking porch to left has C20 casement. Porch to right has chamfered unglazed trefoil. Flanking mortuary and chapel have each, to west, central buttress, 2 lancets, and above, spherical triangle window with hood mould. Above again, small triple lancet. East ends are similar but without buttresses. Chapel has to south central buttressed gabled porch with C13 style doorway with shafts. Shouldered moulded inner doorway. Mortuary has similar porch with C20 door, flanked by flat-roofed C20 additions. Interior has shouldered doorways each side. Chapel has C19 benches and desk. (NCC/js)
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Location
Grid reference | Centred SK 49210 37198 (13m by 26m) |
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Map sheet | SK43NE |
District | Broxtowe |
Civil Parish | Beeston and Stapleford, Broxtowe |
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Record last edited
Apr 29 2015 11:39AM