MELBOURNE CEMETERY CHAPELS

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:: MELBOURNE CEMETERY CHAPELS, PACKHORSE ROAD

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Official list entry

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 83126
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.