CHAPEL AT NORTHERN CEMETERY

CHAPEL AT NORTHERN CEMETERY, HEMPSHILL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247629
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL AT NORTHERN CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL AT NORTHERN CEMETERY, HEMPSHILL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247629
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL AT NORTHERN CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL AT NORTHERN CEMETERY, HEMPSHILL LANE

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:: CHAPEL AT NORTHERN CEMETERY, HEMPSHILL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 53160 44947

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK54SW HEMPSHILL LANE 646-1/3/255 (North side (off)) Chapel at Northern Cemetery

II

Cemetery chapel. 1900. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. Plinth, buttresses, coped gables. PLAN: nave and chancel, with vestry, external south aisle, south-west tower and spire, and west porch. EXTERIOR: chancel, single bay, has a traceried pointed arched east window, 5-lights. Vestry, to south, has a flat-headed window, 3-lights, to north, and a single lancet and pointed arched door to east. Nave, 3 bays, has to north a segment-arched doorway flanked by flat-headed traceried windows, 3-lights. West end has a truncated pointed arched window, 5-lights. South aisle, 3 bays, has coped parapet. Central segment-arched doorway flanked by buttresses, and beyond, 3-light windows, also segment-headed. Square south-west tower, 3 stages, has angle buttresses and an octagonal broach spire with 4 gabled lucarnes. To south and west, pointed arched doorways. above, slit lights on each side. Bell stage has a pointed arched triple bell opening on each side. West porch has angle buttresses and coped parapet. To west, a central doorway flanked by single windows, all segment-headed. To north, a similar doorway. INTERIOR: brick with ashlar bands and dressings, has common rafter roofs on corbels. Chancel has a keel moulded arch with double shafts and hood mould, and pointed arched door to south. Nave has segment-headed double doors to north, south and west, and patterned stained glass windows. Fittings include original choir stalls and clergy desk. (Nottingham through 500 years: Gray D: Nottingham: 1960-: 224).

Listing NGR: SK5316044947

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Legacy System number:: 457236
Legacy System:: LBS

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Gray, D , Nottingham through 500 years, (1960), 224

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.