Chapels, Cemetery
CHAPELS, CEMETERY, WATERY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078637
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Chapels, Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPELS, CEMETERY, WATERY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078637
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Chapels, Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPELS, CEMETERY, WATERY LANE
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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.
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:
- CHAPELS, CEMETERY, WATERY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newent
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 71623 25499
Details
SO 72 NW NEWENT WATERY LANE
3/181 Chapels, Cemetery
GV II
Chapels: 1863 by Jacques and Son. Squared, coursed stone, ashlar dressings, tiled roof. H-plan, chapels at ends with single-storey link. Plain plinth, string course at window sill level throughout. Left: gable to chapel, square-set corner buttresses, save left return: 4-light Decorated tracery window, stone voussoirs over: quatrefoil in gable above. Projecting kneelers to parapet gable, cross-gablet apex. To right lower link, low window, Decorated tracery, stone voussoirs. Plain, sightly projecting eaves to carry gutter. Centre breaks forward, diagonally-set corner buttresses, central opening, moulded, pointed arch on responds up 1 stone step. Above sloping offsets to sides, moulded string, 2 further offsets, pair blind lancets centre with open quatrefoil over. Above moulded string, recessed centre and flat top, with stone finial and tall, iron cross (bellcote removed mid-late C20). Low, cross roof behind. To right mirrors left, but with central buttress to chapel gable, 2-light similar windows each side: stone cross on apex. Chapel doors in outer returns. Interior: cross passage, wrought-iron gates to passages in centre, vestries originally behind. Left-hand chapel nonconformist, fittings now removed to form store. Panelled, boarded ceiling, 2 arch-braced trusses rising from corbels. Anglican chapel to right, pews set chapel-wise. walls unplastered, open rafter roof. Porches to chapel doors in end returns removed mid-late C20. Forms group with cemetery gateway (q. v.). (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970.)
Listing NGR: SO7162325499
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 125718
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
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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