Mortuary Chapel of Abney Park Cemetery

Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 0LH

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1265023
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1975
Statutory Address:
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 0LH
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1265023
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1975
Statutory Address 1:
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 0LH

Location

Statutory Address:
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 0LH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Hackney (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 33363 86811

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/03/2019

TQ 3386
12/642

STOKE NEWINGTON
HIGH STREET N16 (West Side)
Mortuary Chapel of Abney Park Cemetery

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Non-denominational chapel. Built by 1840 in picturesque Gothic style. Plain fortress-like south wing has angle towers and a blank first floor over entrance archway. North of this a porch bay leads to the chapel proper, an octagonal tower with spire having one-bay arms on other three sides and a tiny apse to the north. Grey brick with stone dressings. Lower windows mullioned and transomed, tower windows with Perpendicular-type tracery. Many tall gabled buttresses. Interior has pointed vaulting.
Included partly for landscape value.

Listing NGR: TQ3336386811

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426145
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

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