Mortuary Chapel
MORTUARY CHAPEL, SKINNER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135426
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Mortuary Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- MORTUARY CHAPEL, SKINNER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135426
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Mortuary Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORTUARY CHAPEL, SKINNER LANE
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, SKINNER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 45549 22229
Details
PONTEFRACT SKINNER LANE SE 4522 SE (west side, off) Mortuary Chapel 5/59 13.7.87 II
Mortuary chapel, no longer used. c.1860. Rock-faced snecked stone with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs with fishscale bands. Decorated Gothic Revival Style. The chapel is divided into two by an archway above which is a spire, with linking vestibules, giving an elevation of 1:1:1:1:1 bays, the chapels having 3 bays to the side returns, the established church using the eastern half, and non-conformist denominations the western half. Plinth. Pointed windows with -- Decorated-style tracery. The chapels project and have stepped setback buttresses, 3-light windows, and steep coped gables. Vestibules have 2-light windows and lower steep coped gables. The central archway advances and has moulded pointed arch dying into plain chamfered jambs; single-light opening above; broached spire of coursed stone, with parapet pierced with trefoils; gargoyles; vents. Rear is similar, but archway further recessed. Side returns: stepped buttresses between bays and two-light shorter windows. Roofs have remains of decorative clay ridge tiles. Pointed doorways within tower arch gives access to chapel vestibules.
Listing NGR: SE4554922229
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342698
- 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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