Southernmost Chapel at Wombwell Cemetery
SOUTHERNMOST CHAPEL AT WOMBWELL CEMETERY, CEMETERY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286977
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Southernmost Chapel at Wombwell Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTHERNMOST CHAPEL AT WOMBWELL CEMETERY, CEMETERY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286977
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Southernmost Chapel at Wombwell Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTHERNMOST CHAPEL AT WOMBWELL CEMETERY, CEMETERY ROAD
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.
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:
- SOUTHERNMOST CHAPEL AT WOMBWELL CEMETERY, CEMETERY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 39592 03132
Details
SE30SE WOMBWELL CEMETERY ROAD (north-west side), Wombwell
5/46 Southernmost Chapel at Wombwell Cemetery
GV II
Mortuary chapel. c1868. By Thomas Dobb of Rotherham. Thinly- coursed sandstone with some contrasting dressings, Welsh slate roof. Single-cell with corner spire. High Victorian style; polychromatic relieving arches, carved and contrasting bands. Battered plinth with chamfered band. Gable-entry front: moulded, pointed doorway with colonnettes; circular window above with foiled openings to sunken ashlar panel; ashlar gable copings with stepped kneelers. Spire to left: square, buttressed base to octagonal turret with slit windows, carved bands and lucarnes. Cusped blind opening to each side beneath grotesques. Tapered spire with more grotesques beneath ashlar top. Rear: 4-light window beneath pierced circular panel. Returns: two 2-light windows flanked by single lights, pierced circular window beneath central gablet. Decorative cut-slate roof, leaded flhche base to ridge. Occasionally used for burial services; some windows boarded and in poor repair. Architect referred to in Barnsley Chronicle, 8/8/1867: cutting in Barnsley Local History Library.
Listing NGR: SE3959203132
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333674
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Barnsley Chronicle in 8 August, (1867)
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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