MORTUARY CHAPELS AT WARE CEMETERY

MORTUARY CHAPELS AT WARE CEMETERY, WESTMILL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1238449
Date first listed:: 13-Sep-1995
List Entry Name:: MORTUARY CHAPELS AT WARE CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: MORTUARY CHAPELS AT WARE CEMETERY, WESTMILL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1238449
Date first listed:: 13-Sep-1995
List Entry Name:: MORTUARY CHAPELS AT WARE CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: MORTUARY CHAPELS AT WARE CEMETERY, WESTMILL ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MORTUARY CHAPELS AT WARE CEMETERY, WESTMILL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Ware
National Grid Reference:: TL 34953 14987

Details

WARE TOWN

TL3414NE WESTMILL ROAD 829-1/5/186 (South side) Mortuary Chapels at Ware Cemetery

GV II

Mortuary chapels, now disused. 1854-1855. By Thomas Smith, architect. Brick, with cement `rock' facing, with bitumen-lined `joints', artificial stone dressings, cast cement or Coade stone ornamental bosses and gargoyles, Welsh slated roofs. L-plan, with twin chapels of 3 bays each at right angles, south chapel for Anglicans, north chapel for non-conformists, with tower in re-entrant. Free interpretation of 14th century Decorated style. Chapels have projecting buttresses, with lancet windows, with cusped, and curvilinear traceried heads, principal E and W windows of Anglican chapel and N window of non-conformist chapel, having 3 lights, with cusped heads, and curvilinear tracery with mouchettes. All windows in moulded reveals, with dripmoulds above, those on side elevations continuations of reveals, with dripmoulds above, those on side elevations continuations of string courses. Principal east and north doors flanked by colonnettes, with moulded caps and moulded arches, and dripmoulds with ornamental bosses. (Heath C: The Book of Ware. A Portrait of the Town: Chesham: 1977-: 83).

Listing NGR: TL3495314987

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 412419
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Heath, C, The Book of Ware A Portrait of the Town, (1977), 83

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.