Cemetery Chapels
CEMETERY CHAPELS, CEMETERY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134640
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address:
- CEMETERY CHAPELS, CEMETERY ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-07-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/06130/25
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134640
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address 1:
- CEMETERY CHAPELS, CEMETERY 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:
- CEMETERY CHAPELS, CEMETERY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 23631 24375
Details
SE 22 SW
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BATLEY MB CEMETERY ROAD
BATLEY
Cemetery Chapels
GII
Anglican and Nonconformist chapels.1865 by Walter Hanstock.Pitched faced stone with ashlar dressings.Pitched slate roofs with gable copings with gablet decorations to apex and eaves.Two identical chapels of rest with central archway surmounted by square and octagonal tower with tall slender spire.Each chapel is of four-bays with gabled porch and buttresses.Windows are two-light with cusped heads and quatrefoil.Hood moulds with figure head stops.East windows are five-light with cusped intersecting tracery with cinquefoil in head.West windows similar but four-light.The central archway has cusped tracery on colonnettes with foliated capitals,supported on corbels.Surmounting the arch is three-tier tower with raking angle buttresses surmounted by square pinnacles.The second tier has two-light traceried windows.The third tier is octagonal with heavily moulded pointed arched openings with colonnettes and hood mouldings both with foliated detailing.Perforated parapet with tall diamond shaped pinnacles with slender tops.Tall slender octagonal spire.A high standard of ashlar detailing is noteworthy.Details include grotesques,beasts,birds,figure heads,flora and foliage.The Nonconformist chapel has losts its interior,being now used for storage;the Anglican chapel not inspected.
Listing NGR: SE2363124375
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 340914
- 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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