MAUSOLEUM/MORTUARY CHAPEL 90 METRES NORTH OF YEW TREES

MAUSOLEUM/MORTUARY CHAPEL 90 METRES NORTH OF YEW TREES, LARTINGTON LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121025
Date first listed:: 17-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: MAUSOLEUM/MORTUARY CHAPEL 90 METRES NORTH OF YEW TREES
Statutory Address:: MAUSOLEUM/MORTUARY CHAPEL 90 METRES NORTH OF YEW TREES, LARTINGTON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121025
Date first listed:: 17-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: MAUSOLEUM/MORTUARY CHAPEL 90 METRES NORTH OF YEW TREES
Statutory Address 1:: MAUSOLEUM/MORTUARY CHAPEL 90 METRES NORTH OF YEW TREES, LARTINGTON LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MAUSOLEUM/MORTUARY CHAPEL 90 METRES NORTH OF YEW TREES, LARTINGTON LANE

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District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lartington
National Grid Reference:: NZ 02052 17860

Details

LARTINGTON LARTINGTON LANE NZ 0217 (North side, off) 32/96 Mausoleum/Mortuary Chapel, 90 metres north of Yew Trees II Small mausoleum/mortuary chapel. Dated 1877 on keystone. Built for Monsignor Thomas Witham of Lartington Hall. Rock-faced masonry with leaded roofs. Square, single-cell plan.

Stepped clasping buttresses. Pair of 3-panel doors in splayed round-arched doorway with roll-moulded hoodmould and projecting keystone inscribed: TW 1877. Doorway-flanked by stepped pilasters partly cut away to accommodate red sandstone colonnettes. Pilasters crowned by statuettes of St. Peter (to left) and St. Paul (to right). Raised cross above keystone. Wood eaves cornice. Low-pitched hipped roof surmounted by glazed, square-plan lantern with leaded pyramidal roof. Slightly-projecting rear bay has 3 stepped round-headed lancets.

Caen-stone-lined interior has carvings by Messrs. Priestman and Sons of Darlington.

Of interest as a mortuary chapel in a private Catholic cemetery.

Listing NGR: NZ0205217860

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Legacy System number:: 111265
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.