CEMETERY CHAPEL AND MORTUARY

CEMETERY CHAPEL AND MORTUARY, CEMETERY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247985
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: CEMETERY CHAPEL AND MORTUARY
Statutory Address:: CEMETERY CHAPEL AND MORTUARY, CEMETERY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247985
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: CEMETERY CHAPEL AND MORTUARY
Statutory Address 1:: CEMETERY CHAPEL AND MORTUARY, CEMETERY ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: CEMETERY CHAPEL AND MORTUARY, CEMETERY ROAD

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County:: Nottinghamshire
District:: Broxtowe (District Authority)
Parish:: Stapleford
National Grid Reference:: SK 49209 37198

Details

SK 4937 SW BEESTON AND STAPLEFORD CEMETERY ROAD Stapleford (east side)

4/3 Cemetery Chapel and Mortuary

II

Cemetery chapel and mortuary linked by an archway. 1880. For Joseph Fearfield. C13 and C14 style. Brick and ashlar with slate roofs. Ashlar dressings. Chamfered plinth and eaves, moulded sill bands with stops, shouldered coped gables with gabled kneelers. Windows are mainly lancets with linked hood moulds and stops. Single storey, 3 bays. West side has central stilted segmental arch with ringed shafts, flanked by corner buttresses, 2 setoffs. Above, granite lintel inscribed "This Cemetery ground is the gift of Joseph Fearfield, Esqre. Stapleford 1880". East side is similar but without ornament. Above again, 4 C13 style pinnacles. Octagonal spire has stepped base with gable and cross to west. Bell stage has 8 double lancet louvred openings, and moulded eaves with gargoyles. Spire has 4 gabled lucarnes, finial and cross. Flanking porch to left has C20 casement. Porch to right has chamfered unglazed trefoil. Flanking mortuary and chapel have each, to west, central buttress, 2 lancets, and above, spherical triangle window with hood mould. Above again, small triple lancet. East ends are similar but without buttresses. Chapel has to south central buttressed gabled porch with C13 style doorway with shafts. Shouldered moulded inner doorway. Mortuary has similar porch with C20 door, flanked by flat-roofed C20 additions. Interior has shouldered doorways each side. Chapel has C19 benches and desk.

Listing NGR: SK4920937198

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Legacy System number:: 429324
Legacy System:: LBS

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