FORMER CHAPEL AND CREMATORIUM AT HEDON ROAD CEMETERY

FORMER CHAPEL AND CREMATORIUM AT HEDON ROAD CEMETERY, HEDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197740
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: FORMER CHAPEL AND CREMATORIUM AT HEDON ROAD CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: FORMER CHAPEL AND CREMATORIUM AT HEDON ROAD CEMETERY, HEDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197740
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: FORMER CHAPEL AND CREMATORIUM AT HEDON ROAD CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER CHAPEL AND CREMATORIUM AT HEDON ROAD CEMETERY, HEDON ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Statutory Address:: FORMER CHAPEL AND CREMATORIUM AT HEDON ROAD CEMETERY, HEDON ROAD

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 12930 29681

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30/03/2017

TA 12 NW, 680-1/9/156

KINGSTON UPON HULL, HEDON ROAD (North side (off)), Former chapel and crematorium at Hedon Road Cemetery

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Cemetery chapel and crematorium, now disused. Dated 1899, almost certainly designed by Joseph H. Hirst. Restored mid C20 and disused from c1963. Red brick, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Perpendicular Gothic style. Plinth, string courses, sill band, coped gables with crosses. T plan with west porch, and central tower on south side. Angle buttressed east end has a 4-light lancet with bar tracery and moulded surround with hoodmould. To its right, a door with label mould. Above, in the gable, a single lancet with hoodmould. North side has has two squat triple lancets with moulded heads and hoodmoulds. Western cross wing has a 4-light lancet in each gable, with bar tracery and stepped sill band, and above it, a single lancet opening. West corners have angle buttresses. On the west side, a flat-roofed single-storey projection with a central gabled porch with pointed-arched doorway and hoodmould. Returns have two flat-headed windows. Square tower, to south, combines bell tower and chimney. Four stages, the lower stages with string course and flush stone bands. Deep moulded and modillion eaves to steep pitched pyramidal roof with central square flue. Lower stage has on either side a single-storey toilet with a flat-headed window. Second stage has on three sides a single lancet with hoodmould. Third stage has a similar lancet on each side. Above a moulded cornice, bell stage with corner shafts and two single lancet louvred openings on each side, with linked hoodmoulds. The crematorium, originally coke-fired, is reputed to be the first municipal crematorium to be opened in England.

Listing NGR: TA1293029681

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Sources

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Neave, D & S, Hull, Pevsner Architectural Guide, (2010), 180

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.