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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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