Southern chapel at Ilkley cemetery
Southern chapel at Ilkley cemetery, Cemetery Road, Ilkley
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232784
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Southern chapel at Ilkley cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- Southern chapel at Ilkley cemetery, Cemetery Road, Ilkley
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232784
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Southern chapel at Ilkley cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- Southern chapel at Ilkley cemetery, Cemetery Road, Ilkley
- Statutory Address 2:
- Southern chapel at Ilkley cemetery, Cemetery Road, Ilkley
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:
- Southern chapel at Ilkley cemetery, Cemetery Road, Ilkley
- Statutory Address:
- Southern chapel at Ilkley cemetery, Cemetery Road, Ilkley
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilkley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 12277 48310
Details
SE 14 NW
4/170
CEMETERY ROAD (West Side)
Southern chapel at Ilkley cemetery
II
Municipal cemetery chapel disused at time of survey. c1880. Coursed sandstone with gritstone dressings, plain and sloped green slate roof. One storey, three by one bays with gable entrance loggia on left of square bell-tower; south vestibule; small west apse. Gothic Revival style with Romanesque loggia. Loggia has trabeated openings divided by red sandstone columns with foliated capitals; quoined, pointed arched doorway within; hipped roof abuts tower.
Tower: pointed arched sill and dripstone; quoined front and side gables to ashlar roof from which rises the circular base of an hexagonal spire raised on colonnade.
Chapel: cinquefoil gable window; right return has offset buttresses between cusped and foiled two light windows under pointed arches and hoodmoulds. South vestibule with shouldered doorhead and squareheaded windows; stack rises from main eaves above. Semi circular apse lit by three cusped lancets. Main roof has shaped kneelers, ashlar gabled copings, terracotta ridge tiles and apex crosses. Interior not inspected. Conformist chapel of mirrored pair.
Listing NGR: SE1227748310
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 337732
- 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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