Cemetery Chapel

CEMETERY CHAPEL, LORNE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207445
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
Cemetery Chapel
Statutory Address:
CEMETERY CHAPEL, LORNE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207445
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
Cemetery Chapel
Statutory Address 1:
CEMETERY CHAPEL, LORNE ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CEMETERY CHAPEL, LORNE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Brentwood (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 59147 92540

Details

BRENTWOOD

TQ59SE LORNE ROAD, Warley 723-1/8/89 (West side) Cemetery Chapel

II

Cemetery chapel. Mid-C19. Random Kentish rag-stone walling with oolitic limestone dressings, chamfered plinth, slate roofs. Rectangular 2-bayed nave to E and smaller chancel to W. Vestry to N of chancel. EXTERIOR: Principal features, elaborate bellcote over junction of nave/chancel with gablets over lateral buttressing, also heavy buttresses at angles and bay interval of nave. Windows now mainly boarded over. S elevation, triple lancet windows in each bay of nave with heavy oolitic surrounds following lancet form but flat topped. Buttresses all similar with overlapped coping stones battered out to moulding, 3 to nave, one to chancel. 4 bell-cote gablets ascending to apex. E and W end copings have apex gablets. N elevation similar to S but vestry gable at W end has a triple lancet window in a Gothic arched recess of polygonal stonework. Central lancet of taller, trefoil form. W end, chancel window in Gothic arched recess with lower, triple lancet window, and upper tri-lobed window with split cusps and diamond patterned lead canes (glass missing). Above, behind, bellcote prominent with Gothic arched bell opening with interior split cusped trefoil (bell missing). 4 gablet roof pitches down N and S sides. To N, blank side wall of vestry in polygonal stonework. E elevation, principal entrance, segment headed doorway, roll moulded with broach stops at base of jambs, boarded door with decorative strap hinges. Above, flat-based, spherical-sided, triangular window with inner rose. Rose design based on hexagon of roundels surrounding central roundel, all containing split-cusped trefoils. The 3 spandrels have similar roundels. Angle buttresses similar to sides. INTERIOR, not fully inspected but appears to be plain.

Listing NGR: TQ5914792540

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Legacy System number:
373496
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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