Mortuary Gateway and Chapels in Hebburn Cemetery
MORTUARY GATEWAY AND CHAPELS IN HEBBURN CEMETERY, VICTORIA ROAD WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185874
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Mortuary Gateway and Chapels in Hebburn Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- MORTUARY GATEWAY AND CHAPELS IN HEBBURN CEMETERY, VICTORIA ROAD WEST
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185874
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Mortuary Gateway and Chapels in Hebburn Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORTUARY GATEWAY AND CHAPELS IN HEBBURN CEMETERY, VICTORIA ROAD WEST
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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 GATEWAY AND CHAPELS IN HEBBURN CEMETERY, VICTORIA ROAD WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 30875 63848
Details
NZ 36SW HEBBURN VICTORIA ROAD WEST (east side)
2/81 Mortuary gateway and chapels in Hebburn Cemetery -
GV II
Linked pair of chapels. 1890 by Frederick West, surveyor to Hedworth, Monkton and Jarrow Burial Board. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; roof of Welsh slate. Early English style, H-shaped plan. Tower with tall stone spire over carriage arch has narrow lancets at first and open 2-light windows at second stage. In arch are doors to corridors of 3 windows leading to chapels. East elevations have 3 tall cusped lancets, the central with flowing tracery; hood moulds with flower stops; buttresses and angle buttresses with gablets and coping to set-backs. Roof of corridor has red-tiled ridge; the chapel roofs high-pitched with stone gable coping; 2 ashlar chimneys.
Listing NGR: NZ3087563848
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303742
- 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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