TOWNSEND CEMETERY MORTUARY CHAPELS AND BELL TOWER

TOWNSEND CEMETERY MORTUARY CHAPELS AND BELL TOWER, YEOVIL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281908
Date first listed:: 06-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: TOWNSEND CEMETERY MORTUARY CHAPELS AND BELL TOWER
Statutory Address:: TOWNSEND CEMETERY MORTUARY CHAPELS AND BELL TOWER, YEOVIL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281908
Date first listed:: 06-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: TOWNSEND CEMETERY MORTUARY CHAPELS AND BELL TOWER
Statutory Address 1:: TOWNSEND CEMETERY MORTUARY CHAPELS AND BELL TOWER, YEOVIL 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:: TOWNSEND CEMETERY MORTUARY CHAPELS AND BELL TOWER, YEOVIL ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Crewkerne
National Grid Reference:: ST 44941 09996

Details

CREWKERNE

ST4409 YEOVIL ROAD 876-1/7/173 (South side) Townsend Cemetery mortuary chapels and bell tower

II

Bell tower and cemetery chapels. c1874. MATERIALS: Ham Hill stone bell tower, dressings and plinth capping to chapels; limestone rubble chapels with crested slate roofs and decorative upper courses, hipped to the outer ends. PLAN: the bell tower is flanked symmetrically by L-plan chapels. EXTERIOR: Decorated Gothic Revival style. The tower is square with high pointed arches to front and rear with lower side ones to entrances to chapels. The square columns to front and rear are chamfered with plinths, stiff-leaf capitals and set-back arches. Resting on the corners of the top are octagonal turrets with spirlets which flank tall pointed-arched gabled openings with quatrefoil plates in the tympana. The spire is octagonal with pierced quatrefoils near the top of each facet and a gilded cockerel weather vane. The chapels, linked to the tower by short low corridors with 3 pointed-arch windows to all sides, have large cinqefoil windows in the apexes facing the tower. The outer ends of the chapel are canted bays; each facet is gabled with 2-light trefoil-headed windows with quatrefoils between the tops. Short gable wings with similar 2-light windows project forward to far left and right; to inside left and right are 2 single light trefoil headed windows. All windows are leaded, those to the gables have geometric ornamental coloured glass. INTERIOR: the interiors of the chapels are painted plaster with stone dressings. The entrances to the gabled wings are through tall paired pointed arches with beaded jambs, moulded imposts and wide moulding to the arches. The wooden ceilings are arch-braced, the braces to the bays rest on short colonnettes, one meeting the arches at off-centre are on bosses, and those coinciding with the central piers are on colonnettes which reach the ground, passing throught the impost band and a high stone dado rail which surrounds both interiors. The floors are polychromatic tiles with a step up to the bays. The principal element of a fine group of Victorian cemetery structures.

Listing NGR: ST4494109996

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Legacy System number:: 390447
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.