Listed Building: FIELD MILL HOUSE (2.1.55)

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Grade II
Authority
EH LBS Legacy ID 391742
Date assigned 17 March 1978
Date last amended

Description

Cemetery chapel, partly used as a store. 1857. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched patterned slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. Plinth, short gabled angle buttresses, coped gables with kneelers and crosses. Central tower entrance with bell turret and spire, flanked by chapels with side porches. Square tower, 2 stages, has small flanking buttresses and chamfered string courses at each stage. Ground stage has moulded segmental pointed archway with hoodmould and stops, and above it, 2 small lancets. At the rear, a shouldered window. Under the arch, on either side, a pointed-arched double door with moulded surround. Blind second stage has stepped diagonal buttresses topped with crocketed pinnacles. Octagonal bell turret has stepped base and 8 closely spaced lancet bell openings with stone tracery, separated by thin buttresses, under steep gables with finials. Plain octagonal spire with finial and cross. Chapels front and rear gables each have a 3-light pointed arch window with varying Decorated tracery, hoodmoulds and stops. Outer sides have, towards the rear, two 2-light pointed arch windows with tracery, hoodmoulds and stops. Between them, a stepped buttress. Towards the front, a steeply gabled porch with a pointed-arched doorway, hoodmould and stops. On either side, a single lancet. Chapel inner sides have similar double lancets with a buttress between them. East chapel has an external side wall stack.INTERIOR: functional east chapel has rendered interior with arch braced roof. At the front, a stone reading desk. To its right, a large tablet with crocketed gable. At the rear, double doors on each side. Plain benches set lengthwise. (EH)

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Grid reference Centred SK 53726 60318 (23m by 23m)
Map sheet SK56SW
District Mansfield
Civil Parish Mansfield, Mansfield

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Dec 14 2018 11:57AM

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