Saffron Hill Cemetery Chapel
SAFFRON HILL CEMETERY CHAPEL, STONESBY AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088068
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Saffron Hill Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- SAFFRON HILL CEMETERY CHAPEL, STONESBY AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088068
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Saffron Hill Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- SAFFRON HILL CEMETERY CHAPEL, STONESBY AVENUE
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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:
- SAFFRON HILL CEMETERY CHAPEL, STONESBY AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Leicester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 58893 99704
Details
718/0/10170 STONESBY AVENUE
02-AUG-02 Saffron Hill Cemetery Chapel
GV II
Cemetery chapel ensemble. 1928-9. By EP Mawson. Red brick with stone dressings and plain tile roof. Byzantine style. Plan of chapel to right with campanile to left with services in between and to left of campanile with open arcades fronting them. Chapel has gable facing with clustered pilasters to corners and tall 3-light window to centre. Pseudo aisles to sides, that to right an open arcade with 2 pairs of entrance doors to chapel within. 2-light clerestory windows on both sides above. Aisle to left is services with arcade to left in front of further services. Base of campanile has stone frontespiece and entrance with round arch on simple attached columns. Double doors. Inscription above 'NON OMNIS MORIAR'. The campanile above has corner pilasters up to the top stage which has 2-light bell openings. Hipped pyramidal roof with low stacks to rear corners. Further arcade to left with services behind. Rear has similar arcades and round-arched entrance to base of campanile and polygonal apse to end of chapel.
INTERIOR of chapel. Tall arch to east end leads to apse. Tie beam truss roof on stone corbels.
A carefully considered ensemble with the campanile balancing the chapel and the arcades providing shelter for mourners and flowers. The cemetery itself was laid out by the landscape architect, Thomas Mawson, father of the architect. Documents in the Mawson archive indicate that contemporary cemetery design in USA was consulted. Forms a group with the East and West Lodges and attached gates (qv).
Saffron Hill Cemetery is included in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens at grade II.
Mawson Archive, Cumbria RO, Kendal.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489654
- 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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