Cemetery Chapel
CEMETERY CHAPEL, CEMETERY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183779
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- CEMETERY CHAPEL, CEMETERY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183779
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CEMETERY CHAPEL, CEMETERY 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:
- CEMETERY CHAPEL, CEMETERY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 05190 23650
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE CEMETERY LANE SE 0423 & SE 0523 (north end, off) 12/31 Cemetery Chapel - II Cemetery Chapel. Mid-late C19. Coursed dressed stone, large slates to roof, lead cupola. Cruciform plan with north porch and central fleche. Gothic style with rectilinear tracery. Off-set diagonal buttresses continuous stepped roll-moulded band below windows. Porch: shouldered-arched double- door with decorative ironwork and oculus above all in pointed-arched surround. Above porch, in gable, a spherical triangle window with head-stopped hoodmould. West and east gables each have a 3-light window with head-stopped hoodmould. South gable has a large circular window with star-shaped cusped tracery and head-stopped hoodmould. Kneelers, ashlar copings and gable finials throughout. South gable with octagonal chimney. Central octagonal flèche has glazed, traceried sides and rises as broached, ribbed spire with lucarnes and weathervane. This was the non-conformist chapel, a similar Anglican chapel formerly standing to the north-west (1919 OS Map Sheet CCXXX.ll).
Listing NGR: SE0519023650
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339154
- 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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