West Park Cemetery Chapels
WEST PARK CEMETERY CHAPELS, LIME GROVE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334837
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- West Park Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address:
- WEST PARK CEMETERY CHAPELS, LIME GROVE
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 1999-10-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/01993/20
- Rights:
- © Mr Peter Holt. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334837
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- West Park Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST PARK CEMETERY CHAPELS, LIME GROVE
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:
- WEST PARK CEMETERY CHAPELS, LIME GROVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Erewash (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 48692 33703
Details
PARISH OF LONG EATON LIME GROVE SK 43 SE 4/28 (South Side) West Park Cemetery Chapels GV II
Cemetery chapels. 1889 by Knight of Nottingham. Red rock faced stone with yellow sandstone dressings, moulded plinth copings and continuous sill bands. Steeply pitched red plain tile roofs with lapped stone copings to gables and crested ridge tiles, also cruciform roof with leaded timber cupola to north side. Single storey and three bays, with small chapels to either side of a central lobby. North elevation has a porte cochere with roll moulded pointed arches on attached shafts with foliage capitals to three sides. In the spandrels of each arch there are two roundels with recessed trefoils within and above a corbelled frieze with three stepped blind lancets above. Northern piers have stepped angle buttresses rising into tall steeple pinnacles with panelled sides, similar pinnacles to southern corners. Above is the octagonal timber cupola with fancy open timberwork to sides and a thin bell canted leaded spire above with timber lucarnes on four sides. Behind the porte cochere is a pointed ovolo moulded arch with Caernarvon arched lintel and blind tracery to tympanum. To either side there are triple cusped headed lancets with leaded lights and iron grills. Above in the roof there are small louvred timber dormers with iron finials. West elevation has stepped buttresses to either side of a pointed 3-light plate tracery window and a small trefoil headed lancet in the gable above with stringcourse below. East elevation has a central canted bay with trefoil headed lancets to each angled side and blank east wall, flanked by angle buttresses, also with stringcourse above in the gable. South elevation has advanced central gabled bay with three stepped trefoil headed lancets to front and plain chamfered doorcase to west. To either side there are similar triple lancets, as those to north elevation.
Listing NGR: SK4869233703
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 82213
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 09-Jun-2026 at 08:46:47.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.