Higher Cemetery Lodge
HIGHER CEMETERY LODGE, ST MARKS AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246846
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Cemetery Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER CEMETERY LODGE, ST MARKS AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246846
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Cemetery Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER CEMETERY LODGE, ST MARKS AVENUE
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:
- HIGHER CEMETERY LODGE, ST MARKS AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Exeter (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 93648 93227
Details
SX 9393 ST MARKS AVENUE 871/12/10038 (East side) 19-FEB-01 Higher Cemetery Lodge
II
Lodge to Exeter Cemetery. c1866, the date at which the cemetery was officially opened, although it had been established for some time previously (Falla). Designed by Edward Ashworth of Exeter. Snecked Heavitree stone with Bath stone dressings. Slate roof with horizontal bands of different coloured slates & fleur de lis finials to the ridge tiles. Cast iron rainwater goods. Rendered chimney shafts. Decorated Gothic Revival style.
Plan: main range 1-room deep, 2 rooms wide plus rear service block with M roof and axial chimney stacks.
Exterior: 2 storeys. 2 window front with central gabled porch. Porch has slate roof and slit windows in either side. Pointed arched plank-and-cover-strip front door. 2-light stone window to left of main entrance and 3-light window to the right, both trefoil-headed; 2-light gabled half dormers at first floor; windows glazed with diamond paned glass turnout. The gable end of main range has a canted bay window at ground floor with a hipped roof and 4 trefoil-headed high-transomed lights; 2-light window with trefoil-headed lights to first floor; trefoil in apex of gable. Service block attached to rear contains 2-leaf plank door in a cranked arch.
Right return: gable end of main range has 3-light window at ground floor and 2-light window at first. Both are high transomed with trefoil-headed lights, trefoil in gable apex.
Rear of service blocks have rear doors and 2 3-light casements at ground floor; vertical pane narrow casement in each gable.
INTERIOR: Not inspected, but may retain features of interest
Historical Note: the site of the cemetery was originally 10 acres, increased to 38 by the First World War (Brooks).
Edward Ashworth was one of the leading local Victorian architects with an office in Dix's Field, Exeter. He specialised in church restoration. An attractive composition with the Mortuary Chapels (qv).
(T Falla, Discovering Exeter: Heavitree, Exeter, 1983, pp. 44-6; C Brookes, Mortal Remains, Exeter, 1989, p.133)
Listing NGR: SX9364893227
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487034
- 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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