Mortuary Chapel in Hessle Cemetery
MORTUARY CHAPEL IN HESSLE CEMETERY, BEVERLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103375
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Mortuary Chapel in Hessle Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- MORTUARY CHAPEL IN HESSLE CEMETERY, BEVERLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103375
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Mortuary Chapel in Hessle Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORTUARY CHAPEL IN HESSLE CEMETERY, BEVERLEY ROAD
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:
- MORTUARY CHAPEL IN HESSLE CEMETERY, BEVERLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hessle
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 03273 26781
Details
HESSLE BEVERLEY ROAD TA 02 NW (west side) 9/69 Mortuary Chapel in Hessle Cemetery - II
Mortuary chapel. 1866 for J Robinson Pease. Ashlar, corbelled roof. English Transitional style. Rectangular plan of 3 bays. Blank pointed arcades to each side with moulded and dogtooth arches on shafts with water- leaf capitals. Within the arcades are sunk panels, some inscribed: one of them bears the dated inscription recording the construction of the chapel. Moulded impost bands and corner shafts below impost level. To either end are pointed arches of 3 orders on nook-shafts with waterleaf capitals. The arches and jambs bear a variety of mouldings and are enriched with dogtooth. Wrought-iron gates of good style: 3 tiers of railings with foliate ends. Interior: pointed tunnel vault on 4 keel-roll-moulded ribs carried on attached shafts with water-leaf capitals rising from a low bench. Sunk panels between the shafts, some inscribed. The Pease family were wealthy Hull merchants who owned many of the larger houses in the area.
Listing NGR: TA0327326781
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164712
- 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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