Brandwood End Cemetery Chapels at SP 0705 7991
BRANDWOOD END CEMETERY CHAPELS AT SP 0705 7991
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272029
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Brandwood End Cemetery Chapels at SP 0705 7991
- Statutory Address:
- BRANDWOOD END CEMETERY CHAPELS AT SP 0705 7991
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272029
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Brandwood End Cemetery Chapels at SP 0705 7991
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRANDWOOD END CEMETERY CHAPELS AT SP 0705 7991
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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:
- BRANDWOOD END CEMETERY CHAPELS AT SP 0705 7991
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP0704979912
Details
SP 07 NE
17/10190
BIRMINGHAM
KING'S HEATH
(West side)
Brandwood End Cemetery Chapels at SP 0705 7991
II
Pair of cemetery chapels. 1898; by J Brewill Holmes, for Kings Norton and Northfield Urban District Council. Terracotta and red brick. Westmorland slate roofs in diminishing courses and pierced ridge tiles. STYLE: Free Perpendicular style. PLAN: pair of chapels linked by central tower with carriageway through; the chapels each have an apse at the NW end and porches at the sides. EXTERIOR: symmetrical composition. SE [liturgical W] elevation, the gables of the flanking chapels have two 3-light windows with Perpendicular panel tracery and ogee hoodmoulds; large buttress surmounted by tall pinnacles, cusped oculus above also with ogee hoodmould and panelled gable apex with pinnacles and lona cross; small gables to vestries in angles and large tower at centre with tall moulded 4-centred arch carriageway with ogee hoodmould, weathered set-offs to buttresses, lancet bell-openings, crocketed pinnacles, battlements and terracotta needle spire with small lucarnes. The NW [liturgical E] elevation is sllnilar but has gabled apses with 4-light windows and wheel apex crosses. The SW and NE sides have buttressed and pinnacled porches with lona crosses at gable apexes and lancet windows- INTERIOR: plastered walls contrasting with terracotta windows, doorframes and chancel arches. Arch-braced roofs on terracotta corbels. Pews intact, with shaped ends. Stained glass windows. The NE chapel was gutted by fire in 1995.
Listing NGR: SP0704979912
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468800
- 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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