Pair of Cemetery Chapels at Otley Cemetery

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:: Pair of Cemetery Chapels at Otley Cemetery, Cross Green

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Official list entry

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

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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.

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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

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SE 2045 SE 2145 2/105

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

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Legacy System number:: 341512
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.