Dalton Cemetery, Northernmost Chapel
DALTON CEMETERY, NORTHERNMOST CHAPEL, CEMETERY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197883
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Dalton Cemetery, Northernmost Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- DALTON CEMETERY, NORTHERNMOST CHAPEL, CEMETERY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197883
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Dalton Cemetery, Northernmost Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- DALTON CEMETERY, NORTHERNMOST CHAPEL, CEMETERY HILL
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:
- DALTON CEMETERY, NORTHERNMOST CHAPEL, CEMETERY HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dalton Town with Newton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 22724 73590
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD2273 CEMETERY HILL, Dalton In Furness 708-1/11/159 (West side (off)) Dalton Cemetery, northernmost chapel
II
Conformist cemetery chapel now disused. Consecrated 1862 (Local Board Yearbook). Squared rubble limestone with ashlar sandstone dressings; graduated slate roof. Nave with rounded apse to east and with gabled wing and loggia to north. Gothic Revival style. Chamfered plinth, large quoins. Trabeated loggia, under catslide roof in angle with wing, has 3 columns with square bases and carved capitals; chamfered stone gutter. Within are 2 doorways with decorative iron hinges to double doors; double-chamfered 2-centred arches with carved hoodmould stops. Wing on right has string course below 2 cusped lancets linked by hoodmould; quatrefoil over. South side of nave: buttresses between three 2-light windows with Geometrical tracery and differing heads carved on hoodmould stops. Steeply pitched roof with shaped kneelers and ashlar gable copings; cross to west apex; bellcote to east with gable corbelled from clustered colonnettes. Lower apse has recessed panels with impost string course linking cusped lancets with colonnettes, hoodmoulds and relieving arches; scalloped eaves band. Semi-conical roof with iron finial. INTERIOR: fittings removed except for Gothic Revival wooden screen between nave and wing. (Tyson J: Dalton in Furness: Local Board Accounts: 1887-: 79).
Listing NGR: SD2272473590
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388422
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Tyson, J, Dalton in Furness Local Board Accounts, (1887), 79
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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