SHREWSBURY GENERAL CEMETERY BUILDINGS

SHREWSBURY GENERAL CEMETERY BUILDINGS, LONGDEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270702
Date first listed:: 30-May-1969
List Entry Name:: SHREWSBURY GENERAL CEMETERY BUILDINGS
Statutory Address:: SHREWSBURY GENERAL CEMETERY BUILDINGS, LONGDEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270702
Date first listed:: 30-May-1969
List Entry Name:: SHREWSBURY GENERAL CEMETERY BUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: SHREWSBURY GENERAL CEMETERY BUILDINGS, LONGDEN ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: SHREWSBURY GENERAL CEMETERY BUILDINGS, LONGDEN ROAD

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shrewsbury
National Grid Reference:: SJ 48756 11384

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SHREWSBURY

SJ41SE LONGDEN ROAD 653-1/4/390 (South side) 30/05/69 Shrewsbury General Cemetery Buildings

GV II

Cemetery buildings, comprising chapels and porte-cochere linked by a cloister, and 2 flanking lodge houses or offices. 1856. By Pountey Smith. Coursed and squared stone, the porte-cochere partially timbered, with plain tiled roofs. Decorated style. Chapels divided by central tower with spire: 3-stage tower, with paired bell-chamber lights, embattled parapet with corbel heads and pinnacles, and octagonal spire with 3 tiers of lucarnes. Chapel range of 7 bays divided by pilaster buttresses with truncated pinnacles. High plinth and 2-light Decorated windows over. 4-bay porch forming open-ended aisle, with similar windows. Large Decorated windows of 4 and 5 lights in end walls. Porte-cochere across the front is linked to the chapel range by narrow cloister range with paired lancet windows between buttresses. Porte-cochere is single-storeyed, divided into 3 bays by projecting buttresses each side of long mullioned traceried lights. Timber gable walls, the cambered trusses infilled with decorative traceried lights above the full-height openings each side. Porte-cochere is flanked by lodges each side: coursed and squared stone with plain tiled roofs. Gables face street. The right-hand lodge has 2-storey canted bay window with raking stone roof, and mullioned and transomed window to ground floor, mullioned window above, with decorative leaded glazing. Chimney on right-hand return, and lean-to porch beyond. Left-hand lodge has single-storeyed canted bay window with mullioned and transomed lights and raking stone roof in gable. Small mullioned window above, with hoodmould. Recessed wing to left, with doorway in rear elevation in 4-centred archway, the hoodmould continuing across the facade and stepped up over mullioned and transomed window each side. Axial stack.

Listing NGR: SJ4875611384

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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.