Cemetery Chapel
Cemetery Chapel, Victoria Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218971
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- Cemetery Chapel, Victoria Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218971
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1993
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Cemetery Chapel, Victoria 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:
- Cemetery Chapel, Victoria Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnard Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 05403 16712
Details
NZ0516NW
770-1/4/228
BARNARD CASTLE
VICTORIA ROAD (south side)
Cemetery Chapel
(Formerly Listed as: VICTORIA ROAD (South side) Mortuary Chapel)
29/11/93
GV
II
Cemetery Chapel.1859. By FRN Haswell. Snecked stone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; roof and spire of graduated Lakeland slate with bands of grey and green diaper patterns and stone gable coping. Early English style. Nave and sanctuary with north porch, north-west belfry, south vestry.
EXTERIOR: polygonal apse has three tall lancets breaking eaves under gablets;
sill-string to two north lancets, south lancets, and stepped under three west lancets. North porch has nook-shafts to roll-moulded pointed arch recessed under chamfered arch with drip-string extending to coping of clasping buttresses' vent slit in high gable. Steeply-pitched roof hipped at east and gabled at west, with truncated central ventilator, and stone cross finial to west. Bell tower in north-west angle of porch and nave has blind arcade in low first stage flanked by clasping buttresses between which rise four central buttresses to tall second stage. Paired arches in open belfry stages with nook-shafts and angle shafts; prominent gargoyles at angles of tall pyramidal roof.
INTERIOR: derelict; pews removed. Shouldered rere-arches, toggled arch to vestry, stone fireplace, medieval-style floor tiles and painted stucco with scrolls and legends. Waggon roof with scissor trusses.
Listing NGR: NZ0540316712
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388857
- 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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