Old Charlton Cemetery Chapels
OLD CHARLTON CEMETERY CHAPELS, OLD CHARLTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243720
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Old Charlton Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address:
- OLD CHARLTON CEMETERY CHAPELS, OLD CHARLTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243720
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Old Charlton Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD CHARLTON CEMETERY CHAPELS, OLD CHARLTON 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:
- OLD CHARLTON CEMETERY CHAPELS, OLD CHARLTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dover
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 31711 42774
Details
TR3142 DOVER OLD CHARLTON ROAD
3/174 Old Charlton Cemetery Chapels
II
Pair of cemetery chapels. Circa 1870 by T. Talbot Bury of Dover. Rock-faced dressed stone rubble with Bath stone dressings. Steeply pitched plain tile roof the south east chapel with crested ridge tiles; stone caped gable ends with wrought iron finials and corbelled eaves.
Pair of single cell chapels, the Anglican chapel to north west and non-conformist to south east linked by porches to a central porte- cochere.
High Victorian Gothic; Early English and Venetian.
The south west front has gable ends of chapels to left and right with angle buttresses and tall 3-light plate tracery windows with order of nailheads in the arches. Central gable of Porte-cochere has diagonal buttresses and similar arch but with cusps and colonnettes on the responds. The fleche over the porte-cochere has been truncated. The linking porches have open wooden arcaded sides with narrow cusped arches. 2-light plate-tracery side windows and doorways with plate tracery in tympana, colonnettes and strap hinges to panelled doors. The liturgical east (actual N.E.) end of chapes with polygonal apse to left (non-conformist) and semi-circular apse to right (Anglican) with lancet windows. On the inner slope of each roof a small gabled ventilator with cusped arch and louvres.
Interior: said to have polychromatic brickwork.
Listing NGR: TR3171142774
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 447923
- 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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