Cemetery Chapel, Including Retaining Walls at Either Side
CEMETERY CHAPEL, INCLUDING RETAINING WALLS AT EITHER SIDE, DREW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209764
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapel, Including Retaining Walls at Either Side
- Statutory Address:
- CEMETERY CHAPEL, INCLUDING RETAINING WALLS AT EITHER SIDE, DREW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209764
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapel, Including Retaining Walls at Either Side
- Statutory Address 1:
- CEMETERY CHAPEL, INCLUDING RETAINING WALLS AT EITHER SIDE, DREW STREET
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:
- CEMETERY CHAPEL, INCLUDING RETAINING WALLS AT EITHER SIDE, DREW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brixham
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 92180 55196
Details
BRIXHAM
SX9255 DREW STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/7/106 (South East side) 10/01/75 Cemetery chapel, including retaining walls at either side (Formerly Listed as: DREW STREET, Higher Brixham Non-conformist Chapel and Wall)
GV II
Cemetery chapel and wall. Dated 1861. Coursed and squared Devonian limestone rubble with red-brick quoins and wall tops. Slated roof, gable-end on to street. Consists of a small oblong room with a wide doorway in the middle of front wall and a matching one (now blocked) in centre of rear wall. Gothic style. One storey. Tall, wide chamfered doorway with pointed arch and double plank doors; flanked by 2 lancet windows with pointed arches; 6 panes per window. Above the doorway is a shield inscribed A.D.1861. Front has red-brick quoins and red-brick wall tops, the latter finished with a stone coping and kneelers. Side-walls each have 2 lancet windows with pointed arches (now blocked). Retaining wall finished with red bricks, 3 upright ones alternating with 3 headers; chamfered coping on top. Pilasters break the wall face at regular intervals, these rising above the coping where they have red-brick quoins and gabled caps. INTERIOR of chapel: plain with exposed tie-beam trusses having raking struts from tie to principal. A few original benches remain. An early example of polychrome Gothic. This is a nonconformist chapel with its own cemetery at the rear, abutting the C of E churchyard of St Mary the Virgin (qv).
Listing NGR: SX9218055196
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383609
- 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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