St Margaret's Cemetery Chapels
ST MARGARET'S CEMETERY CHAPELS, MAIDSTONE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115753
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- St Margaret's Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARGARET'S CEMETERY CHAPELS, MAIDSTONE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115753
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- St Margaret's Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARGARET'S CEMETERY CHAPELS, MAIDSTONE 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:
- ST MARGARET'S CEMETERY CHAPELS, MAIDSTONE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Medway (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 74211 67217
Details
The following entry:- ROCHESTER MAIDSTONE ROAD TQ 76 NW 2/174 St Margaret's Cemetery Chapels shall be amended to read:-
TQ 76 NW ROCHESTER MAIDSTONE ROAD 2/174 St Margaret's Cemetery Chapels - II
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ROCHESTER MAIDSTONE ROAD TQ 76 NW 2/174 St Margaret's Cemetery Chapels Cemetery chapels. 1865, by Martin Bulmer, with 1920s addition to rear. Snecked ragstone rubble, flint dressings; Kent tiles and interlocking cement tile roof. High Victorian gothic style; Early English and Decorated style details. 2 gabled chapels, 2 carriage arches, central spire. 2 storey central tower and spire with gabled niche with single lancet to east and west, broaches at angles, octagonal second stage, weathered stone courses, octagonal bell chamber with quinquefoil headed arches with colonnettes and gabled heads, spire with metal finial and vane. 2 flanking segmental arched carriage porches with coped gables. Two almost identical gabled funerary chapels, one Anglican one Nonconformist, with set-off angle buttresses kneelers and coped gables. 3 light east and west windows with elaborate C14 style Decorated flowing tracery. Carriage porches have chamfered principals, boaded ceilings. Interiors of chapels not seen.
Listing NGR: TQ7423067780
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173104
- 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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