CEMETERY CHAPEL AT MANSFIELD CEMETERY

CEMETERY CHAPEL AT MANSFIELD CEMETERY, NOTTINGHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279858
Date first listed:: 21-Mar-1994
List Entry Name:: CEMETERY CHAPEL AT MANSFIELD CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: CEMETERY CHAPEL AT MANSFIELD CEMETERY, NOTTINGHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279858
Date first listed:: 21-Mar-1994
List Entry Name:: CEMETERY CHAPEL AT MANSFIELD CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: CEMETERY CHAPEL AT MANSFIELD CEMETERY, NOTTINGHAM 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:: CEMETERY CHAPEL AT MANSFIELD CEMETERY, NOTTINGHAM ROAD

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

County:: Nottinghamshire
District:: Mansfield (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 54143 58938

Details

MANSFIELD

SK55NW NOTTINGHAM ROAD 924-1/3/81 (West side (off)) Cemetery Chapel at Mansfield Cemetery

II

Cemetery chapel, partly used as a store. 1857. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched patterned slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. Plinth, short gabled angle buttresses, coped gables with kneelers and crosses. Central tower entrance with bell turret and spire, flanked by chapels with side porches. Square tower, 2 stages, has small flanking buttresses and chamfered string courses at each stage. Ground stage has moulded segmental pointed archway with hoodmould and stops, and above it, 2 small lancets. At the rear, a shouldered window. Under the arch, on either side, a pointed-arched double door with moulded surround. Blind second stage has stepped diagonal buttresses topped with crocketed pinnacles. Octagonal bell turret has stepped base and 8 closely spaced lancet bell openings with stone tracery, separated by thin buttresses, under steep gables with finials. Plain octagonal spire with finial and cross. Chapels front and rear gables each have a 3-light pointed arch window with varying Decorated tracery, hoodmoulds and stops. Outer sides have, towards the rear, two 2-light pointed arch windows with tracery, hoodmoulds and stops. Between them, a stepped buttress. Towards the front, a steeply gabled porch with a pointed-arched doorway, hoodmould and stops. On either side, a single lancet. Chapel inner sides have similar double lancets with a buttress between them. East chapel has an external side wall stack. INTERIOR: functional east chapel has rendered interior with arch braced roof. At the front, a stone reading desk. To its right, a large tablet with crocketed gable. At the rear, double doors on each side. Plain benches set lengthwise. (Information from Cemetery Records).

Listing NGR: SK5414358938

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Legacy System number:: 391742
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.