MORTUARY CHAPEL AT HANDSWORTH CEMETERY

MORTUARY CHAPEL AT HANDSWORTH CEMETERY, OXHILL ROAD B21

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1076218
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: MORTUARY CHAPEL AT HANDSWORTH CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: MORTUARY CHAPEL AT HANDSWORTH CEMETERY, OXHILL ROAD B21

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1076218
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: MORTUARY CHAPEL AT HANDSWORTH CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: MORTUARY CHAPEL AT HANDSWORTH CEMETERY, OXHILL ROAD B21

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:: MORTUARY CHAPEL AT HANDSWORTH CEMETERY, OXHILL ROAD B21

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

District:: Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 02954 90731

Details

OXHILL ROAD 1. 5104 Handsworth B21 Mortuary Chapel at Handsworth Cemetery SP 09 SW 2/12 I 2. 1909-10, by W H Bidlake. In an Arts and Crafts style. Red brick in English bond; white stone dressings; slate roof. Six bays, the fourth wider than the others and creating miniscule transepts which have tall 3-light rather than tall 2-light windows. Polygonal turrets mark the transition from nave to apsidal east end. Two west towers with lanterns and spires and, between them, an octagonal space so arranged that half of it is without the chapel and half of it within, where it is glazed to form a west gallery. The inside of yellow stock brick with pink stone dressings. Lierne vault with richly carved bosses. A narrow ambulatory runs right round the chapel. Rainwater heads and benches etc all of good design and workmanship. Bidlake is buried in the cemetery in an unmarked grave.

Listing NGR: SP0295490731

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Legacy System number:: 217484
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.