Lodge, Entrance Gateway and Screen Walls of Chapel Hill Cemetery the Old Cemetery Cottage
LODGE, ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND SCREEN WALLS OF CHAPEL HILL CEMETERY, CHAPEL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278186
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge, Entrance Gateway and Screen Walls of Chapel Hill Cemetery the Old Cemetery Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LODGE, ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND SCREEN WALLS OF CHAPEL HILL CEMETERY, CHAPEL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278186
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge, Entrance Gateway and Screen Walls of Chapel Hill Cemetery the Old Cemetery Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LODGE, ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND SCREEN WALLS OF CHAPEL HILL CEMETERY, CHAPEL HILL
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD CEMETERY COTTAGE, CHAPEL HILL
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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:
- LODGE, ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND SCREEN WALLS OF CHAPEL HILL CEMETERY, CHAPEL HILL
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD CEMETERY COTTAGE, CHAPEL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 63491 52634
Details
The following building shall be added to the list;
SU 65 SW BASINGSTOKE CHAPEL HILL
2/60 Lodge (The Old Cemetery Cottage), entrance gateway and screen walls of Chapel Hill Cemetery II
Lodge, entrance gateway and bridge and screen walls of cemetery. Mid/Late C19. Knapped flint with limestone dressings, mathematical tiles over timber framing, slate roof. The entrance gateway has a bridge over with screen walls fanning out and lodge to left. Gothic style.
Lodge has 3 bay front to entrance, outer ones gabled with turret between. Two storeys on basement. Flint below, mathematical tiles above. Two light window and door to left, both covered by wooden verandah. Doorway to right flanked by windows. Above is a 2 light window, a stepped 3 light window and a 4 light window all with eaded lattice glazing. Gables with carved bargeboards, central spire between. The right hand gable has two projections on wooden brackets. Road elevation has external stack with offsets and brick top, similar at rear of right gable. Single storey rear wing to left. The lodge is set on a bruttressed screen wall with flight of steps.
Entrance gateway is formed by a cast iron bridge on chequerwork piers, decorative cast iron gates between. The piers are pierced by pointed arches, the right hand one has a room within lit by lancet windows.
Screen walls. That to left is under the lodge (see above) that to right is curved and buttressed and retains a grass bank.
The cemetery was opened in 1858 and had two chapels designed by Paulton and Woodman of Reading. This may be relevant to this building.
Listing NGR: SU6223851421
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 406422
- 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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