West Mortuary Chapel in Blackhill Cemetery
WEST MORTUARY CHAPEL IN BLACKHILL CEMETERY, DURHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261051
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- West Mortuary Chapel in Blackhill Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- WEST MORTUARY CHAPEL IN BLACKHILL CEMETERY, DURHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261051
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- West Mortuary Chapel in Blackhill Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST MORTUARY CHAPEL IN BLACKHILL CEMETERY, DURHAM ROAD
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:
- WEST MORTUARY CHAPEL IN BLACKHILL CEMETERY, DURHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 10081 51743
Details
NZ 15 SW CONSETT DURHAM ROAD
(South side) Blackhill 6/35 West Mortuary Chapel in Blackhill Cemetery GV II Mortuary chapel, now Parks and Cemeteries Department store-room. 1876. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. T-plan; Decorated style. Aligned north-south; nave and ritual north transept, with porch in angle between. Gable to front has diagonally-boarded double doors in cusped, 2-centred arch with shafted, moulded surround; dripmould continuous with string on flanking coped buttresses; large wheel window above has central star-of-David tracery; small lancet in gable peak. Porch has open arch and blind trefoil; bell turret at left of main gable has shouldered cusped lights under brattished parapet. Steeply-pitched stone coping below belfry with cusped gabled arcade and octagonal spire with patterned bands and wrought-iron finial. Right return has 4 spherical-triangular lights with varied tracery in panels, the bays defined by buttresses; large 4-light traceried rear window; left transept has 2-light gable window with cusped plate tracery. Steeply-pitched roofs have elaborate stone cross finials, one missing; and gabled kneelers.
Listing NGR: NZ1008151743
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438829
- 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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