PAIR OF CHAPELS IN COWPEN CEMETERY

PAIR OF CHAPELS IN COWPEN CEMETERY, COWPEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1041343
Date first listed:: 15-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF CHAPELS IN COWPEN CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: PAIR OF CHAPELS IN COWPEN CEMETERY, COWPEN ROAD

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Date:: 2001-06-20
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1041343
Date first listed:: 15-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF CHAPELS IN COWPEN CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: PAIR OF CHAPELS IN COWPEN CEMETERY, COWPEN ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PAIR OF CHAPELS IN COWPEN CEMETERY, COWPEN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Blyth
National Grid Reference:: NZ 30098 81841

Details

BLYTH COWPEN ROAD NZ 38 SW (South side) 2/38 Pair of chapels in Cowpen Cemetery GV II Cemetery Chapels, c.1875. Tooled stone with ashlar dressings; roof of mixed Welsh and Lakeland slates with terracotta ridge. Free C14 style. North elevation in 3 parts: central porch with tall moulded arch, stepped diagonal buttresses and corner pinnacles linked by flying buttresses to octagonal turret with spire, rising from crown of arch. To left and right gable ends of chapels, with 3-light windows and trefoiled panels in gables, joined to porch by lower lobbies with cinquefoil-headed windows and parapets with pierced quatrefoils. Returns of chapels each 3 bays, with lancet windows; lower bay with 2-light window to rear of each chapel, linked by C20 crematorium in same style.

Immediately left and right of porch entrance, standing just clear of wall, small flat-topped stones with incised C (left) and U (right).

Cowpen Cemetery, with chapels for 'Church of England and Dissenters' was opened in 1877.

Listing NGR: NZ3009881841

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Legacy System number:: 236002
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.