East Mortuary Chapel of Benfieldside Cemetery
EAST MORTUARY CHAPEL OF BENFIELDSIDE CEMETERY, DURHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240407
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- East Mortuary Chapel of Benfieldside Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- EAST MORTUARY CHAPEL OF BENFIELDSIDE CEMETERY, DURHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240407
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- East Mortuary Chapel of Benfieldside Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST MORTUARY CHAPEL OF BENFIELDSIDE CEMETERY, DURHAM 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:
- EAST MORTUARY CHAPEL OF BENFIELDSIDE CEMETERY, DURHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 10133 51744
Details
NZ 15 SW CONSETT DURHAM ROAD
(South side) Blackhill 6/36 East mortuary chapel of Benfieldside cemetery GV II Mortuary chapel, now Parks and Cemeteries Department store-room.1876. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. T-plan; Decorated style. Aligned north- south, with nave and south transept, and porch in angle between the two. Ritual west gable, to front, has diagonally-boarded double doors in chamfered 2-centred arch with moulded, shafted surround; dripmould continuous with string on flanking coped buttresses; large wheel window above with cusped tracery; lancet in gable peak; porch to right has open arch below blind trefoil in gable peak; tower to right of main gable has shouldered and cusped lights below brattished parapet. Steeply-pitched stone coping below belfry with cusped arcade, and patterned bands on octagonal spire with wrought-iron finial. Left return has 2 vehicle doors inserted in buttressed bays, and panel in third bay containing spherical-triangular window. Right return transept gable has 2-light window with cusped plate tracery; large 4-light east window. Steeply-pitched roofs have gabled kneelers; elaborate stone cross finials.
Listing NGR: NZ1013351744
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438830
- 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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