Cemetery Chapels
CEMETERY CHAPELS, CECILIA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348349
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address:
- CEMETERY CHAPELS, CECILIA ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348349
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address 1:
- CEMETERY CHAPELS, CECILIA 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:
- CEMETERY CHAPELS, CECILIA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Thanet (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ramsgate
- National Grid Reference:
- TR3836666033
Details
TR 36 NE
1413/1/84
04.02.88
RAMSGATE
CECILIA ROAD
(North side)
Cemetery Chapels
GV
II*
Cemetery chapels. Designed in 1869 and finished in 1872 by George Gilbert Scott junior in Late Gothic style for £6000 for the Ramsgate Burial Board.. Some late C20 fittings to Eastern chapel. Flint with stone dressings and plaintiled roof. Chapels east and west of central tower in symmetrical composition with asymmetrical windows. Eastern Chapel with square headed Decorated style windows and 4 light arched window to East. The western chapel has pointed windows with similar west window. Tower with square headed window to north, pointed to south (the distinction being pointed for the Anglican chapel, square headed for the Non Conformist. Two stage tower with offset buttresses, and south-eastern square turret, with 2 light belfry openings and battlements. Tiled roof and weathervane. Arched doorways to each chapel, on south with plank and stud doors. The western chapel now used as store rooms (a later separate chapel built elsewhere) but contains original furnishing which include college type pews and brick floor. Eastern chapel now used as a Remembrance Chapel and has 3 bay roof with kingpost, tiebeams and arched braces. Late C20 wood and glazed internal porch and brick floor. This was George Gilbert Scott junior's first work in Late Gothic and is of great importance in the reaction from High' Victorian Gothic towards Late Gothic, Englishness and Refinement. The Chairman of the Ramsgate Burial Board, the Rev Charles Carus Wilson, Vicar of ramsgate was a future client of Scott's in Leamington. (St Mark's New Milverton, and Vicarage.) [See Homan, Victorian Churches of Kent, 83].
Listing NGR: TR3836666033
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 171713
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Homans, R, Victorian Churches of Kent, (1984), 83
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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