Pair of Cemetery Chapels at Otley Cemetery
Pair of Cemetery Chapels at Otley Cemetery, Cross Green
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250551
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pair of Cemetery Chapels at Otley Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- Pair of Cemetery Chapels at Otley Cemetery, Cross Green
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250551
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pair of Cemetery Chapels at Otley Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- Pair of Cemetery Chapels at Otley Cemetery, Cross Green
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:
- Pair of Cemetery Chapels at Otley Cemetery, Cross Green
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Otley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 20877 45877
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 July 2021 to reformat text to current standards
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CROSS GREEN (north side)
Pair of Cemetery Chapels at Otley Cemetery
II
Pair of cemetery chapels. c1875. Rock-faced and ashlar sandstone, graduated Welsh slate roofs. Single-storey, gable-fronted chapels linked by archway under two-stage tower with spire. Gothic Revival style with geometrical tracery. Central tower has quoined side buttresses and moulded pointed arch rising from corbelled shafts; hoodmould with head-carved stops. Offset belfry stage with two cusped and louvred windows linked by hoodmould; broach spire with lucarnes in two tiers.
Chapels to each side are linked by narrow recessed bays with single-light windows under hoodmoulds. Each chapel has chamfered plinth, quoins, offset angle buttresses and large four-light window with cusped and foiled head under hoodmould; shaped kneelers and gable copings. Side doorways beneath tower have moulded arches with hoodmoulds. Opposed side doorways are similar but set in gabled projections. Two-light windows to each side; cusped and foiled gable openings to rear.
Interior: chapel on right has fitted pews and arch-braced roof on corbels; left chapel similar but now used as store.
Listing NGR: SE2087745877
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 341512
- 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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