Mortuary Chapel at Hatfield Cemetery
MORTUARY CHAPEL AT HATFIELD CEMETERY, CEMETERY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314805
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Mortuary Chapel at Hatfield Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- MORTUARY CHAPEL AT HATFIELD CEMETERY, CEMETERY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314805
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Mortuary Chapel at Hatfield Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORTUARY CHAPEL AT HATFIELD 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:
- MORTUARY CHAPEL AT HATFIELD CEMETERY, CEMETERY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Hatfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 67241 09022
Details
HATFIELD CEMETERY ROAD SE 60 NE (west eider off) 11/30 Mortuary Chapel at Hatfield Cemetery II Mortuary chapel. 1884 by Edwin Dolby of Abingdon (Kelly's Directory p.450) Thinly-coursed, rock-faced sandstone with ashlar limestone dressings; graduated Westmorland slate roof. Single-storey, single-cell; sides symmetrical with gabled entrances, eastern apse; Gothic Revival stifle. South side: entrance gable breaks forward and has chamfered plinth and moulded band continuing round apse on right. Moulded, pointed-arched doorway with hoodmould returning to link to gable kneelers; blank shield over arch with embattled string to each side. To left end a diagonal buttress with 2 single-light windows on its right having cusped panelled heads beneath square hoodmoulds linked to eaves cornice. Apse on right of doorway has similar windows of 2-lights set beneath higher eaves. Ashlar copings to left (west) gable with ashlar end stack set to rear of ridge. Octagonal flèche on ridge above doorway with cusped side openings and leaded roof with weathervane. Left return (west end): 3-light window with cambered head.
Interior; plain brick with ashlar dressings; exposed queen-post trusses. Edwin Dolby was also the architect responsible for the 1862 restoration of Thorne Church of St. Nicholas (q.v.).
Kelly's Directory, West Riding, 1889.
Listing NGR: SE6724109022
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334605
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1889), 450
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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