Roman Catholic Cemetery Chapel at Borough Cemetery
ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY CHAPEL AT BOROUGH CEMETERY, DEVONSHIRE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209845
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Cemetery Chapel at Borough Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY CHAPEL AT BOROUGH CEMETERY, DEVONSHIRE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209845
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Cemetery Chapel at Borough Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY CHAPEL AT BOROUGH CEMETERY, DEVONSHIRE ROAD
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:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY CHAPEL AT BOROUGH CEMETERY, DEVONSHIRE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 19948 71394
Details
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SD17SE DEVONSHIRE ROAD 708-1/3/45 (North side (off)) Roman Catholic cemetery chapel at Borough Cemetery
II
Cemetery chapel now store. Dated 1872. Probably by Paley and Austin. Irregular limestone walling with red sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. Cruciform plan with crossing tower; Romanesque. Chamfered plinth; quoined angle buttresses. Entrance in west gable has double doors with decorative iron hinges in 3-order arch with colonnettes and zig-zag ornament; impost string course rises as hoodmould; window over also has zig-zag. Windows to each return are set on continuous string courses and linked by impost bands. Transepts have tall central light flanked by pairs of blind windows with colonnette mullions. East window of 3 lights, the central light taller with hoodmould carried over the side lights as a string course. Lobed eaves band; chamfered gable copings with apex cross at east end and twin flue stack rising from south transept; terracotta ridge cresting. Crossing tower rises from square base to become octagonal and has leaded window in each side and columns at the angles; carved corbel table and lobed band at eaves of steep hipped roof with finial. INTERIOR: red/blue floor tiles; yellow brick wall lining. Crossing has semi-circular responds with carved capitals to arches with nailhead ornament.
Listing NGR: SD1999070734
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388441
- 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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