Mortuary Chapels at Ware Cemetery
MORTUARY CHAPELS AT WARE CEMETERY, WESTMILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238449
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Mortuary Chapels at Ware Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- 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-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Mortuary Chapels at Ware Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORTUARY CHAPELS AT WARE CEMETERY, WESTMILL 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:
- 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.
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