South Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery

Whitworth Cemetery, Edward Street, Whitworth, OL12 8LE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1072783
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: South Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery
Statutory Address:: Whitworth Cemetery, Edward Street, Whitworth, OL12 8LE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1072783
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: South Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery
Statutory Address 1:: Whitworth Cemetery, Edward Street, Whitworth, OL12 8LE

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:: Whitworth Cemetery, Edward Street, Whitworth, OL12 8LE

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Rossendale (District Authority)
Parish:: Whitworth
National Grid Reference:: SD 89177 18974

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/03/2019

SD 81 NE 11/241

WHITWORTH EDWARD STREET (off) South Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery

GV II Cemetery chapel, right of matching set of three, late 1870s, designed by architects Maxwell and Tuke. Rock-faced sandstone, slate roof with bands of green slates, red ridging tiles, gabled dormer window on south side, ridge chimney. T-plan: small nave with north transept; in High Victorian Gothic style. West gable has seven lancets, band, and plate-traceried rose above.

Interior: not inspected, but probably has arch-braced kingpost roof with curved struts (as in other two chapels).

Listing NGR: SD8917718974

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Legacy System number:: 185820
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.