Mausoleum/mortuary Chapel 90 Metres North of Yew Trees
MAUSOLEUM/MORTUARY CHAPEL 90 METRES NORTH OF YEW TREES, LARTINGTON LANE
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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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.
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:
- MAUSOLEUM/MORTUARY CHAPEL 90 METRES NORTH OF YEW TREES, LARTINGTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111265
- 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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