Listed Building: CEMETERY CHAPELS (3.54.213)
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Grade | II |
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Authority | |
EH LBS Legacy ID | 385072 |
Date assigned | 13 August 1992 |
Date last amended |
Description
Cemetery chapels, now tool stores. c1870. Rockfaced stone and brick, with limestone dressings and patterned plain tile roofs. Decorated style. Chamfered plinth and string course, coped gables. Symmetrical layout with central archway and bell turret flanked by single chapels with side porches. Moulded central archway with hood mould and imposts, flanked by single buttresses topped with crocketed pinnacles. Over the arch, a traceried coped gable. 2 stage bell turret has angle buttresses to ech stage, the lower ones gabled, the upper ones with pinnacles. 4 ogee headed crested openings to the square bell stage. Above again, octagonal needle spire with a tier of lucarnes. Under the arch, a brick vault with stone ribs , and on either side a shouldered doorway. On the north side, a memorial tablet, 1918. Chapels are connected to the entrance arch by single bay links each with a lancet. East ends have angle buttresses topped with pinnacles, and traceried crests to the gables. Triple lancets, each with different tracery, with stepped sill bands and hood moulds with stops. East chapel window has tiny flanking niches. Above each triple lancet, an oval window. Inside return angles have single lancets. North and south sides have central porches with coped gables with kneelers, and small flanking buttresses. Moulded doorway with hood mould. Similar inner doorways. On either side, a single lancet. West ends have angle buttresses and plain coped gables with kneelers. Similar fenestration to east ends. North chapel has a lancet to left of the link. Rendered interiors have stepped sill bands to east and arch braced double purlin roofs. Central shouldered doorways opposite the porches. (EH)
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Location
Grid reference | Centred SK 80568 52905 (25m by 11m) |
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Map sheet | SK85SW |
District | Newark |
Civil Parish | Newark, Newark |
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Record last edited
Nov 20 2017 2:10PM