Cemetery Chapel and Mortuary
CEMETERY CHAPEL AND MORTUARY, CEMETERY ROAD
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Overview
- 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
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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:
- CEMETERY CHAPEL AND MORTUARY, CEMETERY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429324
- 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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