OLD CHARLTON CEMETERY CHAPELS

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:: OLD CHARLTON CEMETERY CHAPELS, OLD CHARLTON ROAD

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Official list entry

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

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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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

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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.