Melbourne Cemetery Chapels
MELBOURNE CEMETERY CHAPELS, PACKHORSE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334646
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Melbourne Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address:
- MELBOURNE CEMETERY CHAPELS, PACKHORSE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334646
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Melbourne Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address 1:
- MELBOURNE CEMETERY CHAPELS, PACKHORSE 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:
- MELBOURNE CEMETERY CHAPELS, PACKHORSE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- South Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Melbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 38744 25895
Details
SK 38/3925 PARISH OF MELBOURNE PACKHORSE ROAD 6/142 (East Side) Melbourne Cemetery Chapels GV II Cemetery chapels. c1860. Rock faced ashlar with ashlar dressings and double chamfered plinth. Steeply pitched lozenge patterned grey and green slate roofs with crested ridge tiles, lapped stone coped gables on moulded kneelers and corbelled eaves bands. Chapels at right angles to each other with central tower between. The tower has a full width carriage arch through it, with a moulded pointed arch on triple clustered shafts topped by moulded capitals, also with hoodmould and relieving arch above. Upper stage has a chamfered band to base and moulded cornice with corner gargoyles to top. East and west sides have central cusped ogee headed windows with crocketed hoodmoulds and finials. At this level each corner tapers from about half way up so the top of the stage is octagonal. Above, the tower reduces considerably and is topped by an octagonal turret with gableted louvred lancets to each side and a slim banded spire above. Chapel attached to south has three 2-light plate tracery windows to west elevation and stepped buttresses to either end. Similar east elevation except southern window is set in a small gabled vestry. South gable wall has a 4-light geometric tracery window with hoodmould and relieving arch above. Northern chapel is similar with plate tracery windows to north, 3-light geometric tracery window to east and a 4-light cusped intersecting tracery window with roundel to top, to west. Both chapels have Caernarvon arched doorcases beneath the tower, each with double doors and decorated spandrels. Interiors of the chapels are very plain with arched trusses on carved spandrels and tiled floors.
Listing NGR: SK3874425895
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 83126
- 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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