Cemetery Chapels
Cemetery Chapels, London Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297720
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address:
- Cemetery Chapels, London Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297720
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address 1:
- Cemetery Chapels, London Road
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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:
- Cemetery Chapels, London Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newark
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 80578 52906
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 April 2021 to amend date of build and to reformat the text to current standards
SK85SW
619-1/4/219
NEWARK ON TRENT
LONDON ROAD (south side (off))
Cemetery Chapels
II
Cemetery chapels, now tool stores. 1856. Rockfaced stone and brick, with limestone dressings and patterned plain tile roofs. Decorated style. Chamfered plinth and string course, coped gables. Symmetrical layout with central archway and bell turret flanked by single chapels with side porches. Moulded central archway with hood mould and imposts, flanked by single buttresses topped with crocketed pinnacles. Over the arch, a traceried coped gable. Two stage bell turret has angle buttresses to each stage, the lower ones gabled, the upper ones with pinnacles. Four ogee headed crested openings to the square bell stage. Above again, octagonal needle spire with a tier of lucarnes. Under the arch, a brick vault with stone ribs and on either side a shouldered doorway. On the north side, a memorial tablet, 1918.
Chapels are connected to the entrance arch by single bay links each with a lancet. East ends have angle buttresses topped with pinnacles, and traceried crests to the gables. Triple lancets, each with different tracery, with stepped sill bands and hood moulds with stops. East chapel window has tiny flanking niches. Above each triple lancet, an oval window. Inside return angles have single lancets. North and south sides have central porches with coped gables with kneelers, and small flanking buttresses. Moulded doorway with hood mould. Similar inner doorways. On either side, a single lancet. West ends have angle buttresses and plain coped gables with kneelers. Similar fenestration to east ends. North chapel has a lancet to left of the link. Rendered interiors have stepped sill bands to east and arch braced double purlin roofs. Central shouldered doorways opposite the porches.
Listing NGR: SK8057852906
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385072
- 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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