Cemetery Chapel
CEMETERY CHAPEL, BOSTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063768
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- CEMETERY CHAPEL, BOSTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063768
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CEMETERY CHAPEL, BOSTON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CEMETERY CHAPEL, BOSTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- East Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horncastle
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 26377 68605
Details
TF 36 NW HORNCASTLE BOSTON ROAD (east side)
4/14 Cemetery Chapel II
Cemetery chapel. 1888. Coursed blue lias rubble with limestone ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with decorative red ridge tiles, stone coped gables and cross finials. Nave with north-west spirelet, south vestry-store room, small chancel. Ashlar dressed plinth runs round entire chapel. Moulded string course rises to run below west window with pointed head, 3 cusped lights, Decorated tracery, hood mould and label stops. Steep gable rises above with cusped oculus. North west diagonal buttress rises up to octagonal ashlar turret with 8 pointed, cusped, narrow openings, spirelet and finial. 3 bay north side with central steeply gabled bay projecting slightly. Large central pointed doorway with ashlar quoins, hood mould with label stops, double plank doors and shield above inscribed: "1888". Doorway flanked by single, pointed, cusped windows. East end with single pointed window with trefoiled head with trefoiled mouchette above. South side of chancel with single cusped lancet. East front of south vestry with large triangular headed doorway, with chamfered surround and triple plank doors. South side with curved triangular window with cusping. West end of vestry with large triangular headed doorway with chamfered surround, hood mould, foliate label stops and triple plank door. Plate trefoil in gable above. South side of nave with single cusped lancet.
Listing NGR: TF2637768605
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 195671
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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