North Chapel at Alnwick Cemetery
North Chapel at Alnwick Cemetery, South Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237596
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- North Chapel at Alnwick Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- North Chapel at Alnwick Cemetery, South Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237596
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- North Chapel at Alnwick Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- North Chapel at Alnwick Cemetery, South 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:
- North Chapel at Alnwick Cemetery, South Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alnwick
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 19578 12258
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 October 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details, update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
NU 11 SE
905-/8/10001
SOUTH ROAD (East side)
North Chapel at Alnwick Cemetery
GV
II
Cemetery chapel. 1856. Designed by FR Wilson, and built by Armstrong and Hudspeth. Rubble stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof with coped gables and finials. Chamfered plinth, angle buttresses quoins and a moulded band. South front has, to the right a projecting gabled porch with pointed arch doorway, and at the corner an octagonal stair turret with reduced stone spire. To the left two pairs of small pointed arch windows with buttresses between, and beyond a single similar window with hood mould. The west gable front has three lancets and above four small circular windows. The east gable front has a projecting single storey narthex with four small pointed arch windows and a stone roof. Above a tall pointed arch window of three-lights with unusual plate tracery and a hood mould.
Listing NGR: NU1958212259
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 361429
- 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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