Cemetery Chapels

CEMETERY CHAPELS, PARK ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1064493
Date first listed:
07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
Cemetery Chapels
Statutory Address:
CEMETERY CHAPELS, PARK ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1064493
Date first listed:
07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
Cemetery Chapels
Statutory Address 1:
CEMETERY CHAPELS, PARK ROAD

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CEMETERY CHAPELS, PARK ROAD

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

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
South Holland (District Authority)
Parish:
Holbeach
National Grid Reference:
TF 36204 25087

Details

HOLBEACH PARK ROAD TF 32 NE 6/72 Cemetery Chapels

II

Church of England and Non-Conformist Cemetery Chapels, now Oecumenical cemetery chapel and store-room. 1854. Stock brick with limestone ashlar dressings. Ornamental slate roof with stone coped gables, decorative ridge tiles and cross finials. 2 single storey chapels divided by tall pointed archway crowned with tower with 4 stage diagonal buttresses with upper gablets running into ornate corner pinnacles. Octagonal spire above with tall trefoil headed openings with ornate gablets, on each side; finial. Underside of tower with rib vault with ornate corbels and bosses. Plinth and sill bands run round both chapels. West side of north chapel with single pointed window with single cusped ogee headed lights flanking pointed, cusped light; flowing tracery, hood mould and head label stops. North side with central projecting rectangular bay. Single pointed windows flank this bay, each with 2 pointed, cusped lights, hood mould and head label stops. Return walls of projecting bay each with small trefoil headed lights with hood moulds and head label stops. Projecting bay with pointed plank doorway with hood moulds. East end with a pointed window, 3 cusped, ogee headed lights, flowing tracery, hood mould and head label stops. South side has pointed doorway set underneath tower arch with double plank doors and hood mould. South chapel is identical to the north chapel, with the doorway in the north side, underneath the tower arch, and the projecting rectangular bay to the south, with the doorway blocked. Interior of both chapels with lierne rib vaults with ornate bosses and angel corbels.

Listing NGR: TF3620425087

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
198034
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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