Chapel at Northern Cemetery
CHAPEL AT NORTHERN CEMETERY, CHANTERLANDS AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197629
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Northern Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL AT NORTHERN CEMETERY, CHANTERLANDS AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197629
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Northern Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL AT NORTHERN CEMETERY, CHANTERLANDS AVENUE
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:
- CHAPEL AT NORTHERN CEMETERY, CHANTERLANDS AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Kingston upon Hull (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 07190 31285
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30/03/2017
TA 03 SE,
680-1/4/437
KINGSTON UPON HULL,
CHANTERLANDS AVENUE (West side (off)),
Chapel at Northern Cemetery
II
Cemetery chapel. 1912. Architect: Joseph H. Hirst, City Architect.
Red brick with ashlar dressings and
gabled slate and flat asphalt roofs. Polychrome banded rear
wall stack. Single and two storeys; 1x3 windows. Windows are
metal-framed casements with glazing bars. 2-storey main
building enclosed on all sides by single-storey flat-roofed
aisles, porches and toilet blocks.
Main block has polychrome bands and quoins, eaves band,
dentillated eaves, and dentillated open pediments to gables.
Facing gable has a projecting central ashlar feature with a
round-arched window flanked by pilasters under a broken
segmental pediment and elongated keystone. On either side, three
round-arched metal-framed glazing bar windows with corbelled
sills and keystones. Rear gable has a central window with
round-arched surround.
Single storey ranges have string courses and moulded cornices.
Front porch has a large broken segmental pediment framing a
moulded panel topped with a cross. The pediment is carried by
paired Doric columns flanking a pair of doors. Beyond, on
either side, a single window, and a similar window in the
return angle. Beyond again, projecting corner pavilions with
pairs of recessed doors. Returns have two single windows. Aisles
have each three single windows. Rear has blank central section
flanked by projecting pavilions, each with a single door. Each
return has two single windows.
INTERIOR has moulded cornice below round-arched upper windows.
At the front, three round arches with square piers, the central
arch with curtained catafalque, the outer arches with marble
reading desks. At the rear, a gallery with two square Doric
columns. On either side, each aisle bay forms a recess flanked
by Doric columns. Panelled oak benches throughout.
Listing NGR: TA0719031285
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387486
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Neave, D & S, Hull, Pevsner Architectural Guide, (2010), 161
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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