Funeral Chapel
FUNERAL CHAPEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1092529
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Funeral Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- FUNERAL CHAPEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1092529
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Funeral Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- FUNERAL CHAPEL
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.
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:
- FUNERAL CHAPEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Highclere
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 44490 59388
Details
SU 45 NW HIGHCLERE HIGHCLERE PARK 6/2 Funeral Chapel
II
Mid C19. For the third Earl of Carnarvon, by Thomas Allom. An Early English 3-bay single cell, with exaggerated ornament and symmetrical elevations. The side elevations show a roof of scalloped blue tiles, with an ornamental ridge. Walling is of squared knapped flint with stone dressings; moulded eaves, deep chamfered frames to the lancet windows, moulded cill band, plinth, stepped buttresses (gabled at each end to meet the raised gable coping). The west elevation has 3 lancets (the central taller) within hoodmoulds and recessed columns, on a raised cill band. The east front has a stone bell turret, with gables and gargoyles, on brackets enclosing a small arched opening; beneath is the wide doorway, comprising a Gothic arch with several recessed stages, resting on columns with moulded caps and bases. Within is an arch-braced upon timber roof, a floor containing a central lettered tomb slab, with a bank of stalls on each side (having French Gothic ornament). A secondary door occupies the west, bay of the north elevation.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 138113
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 19 Hampshire,
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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