Church of England Chapel
CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHAPEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350380
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Church of England Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHAPEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350380
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Church of England Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHAPEL
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:
- CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHAPEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Thanet (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 35150 69236
Details
878/0/10036 Church of England Chapel, Margate Ceme
16-JAN-03 tery
GV II
Cemetery chapel, one of a pair. Built by Birch of Margate in 1856, builder G Hadlow. Early English style. Kentish ragstone rubble with stone dressings, tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles and gabled bellcote with finial to west end (bell missing).
EXTERIOR: West end has trefoil window above arched doorcase with colonnettes. Ornamental ironmongery to door. Buttresses. South side has two gables with trefoil-shaped finials and double trefoliated windows with quatrefoil above and buttresses. North side has a gable and gabled transept with double arched trefoil window with quatrefoil above. East window is traceried with triple trefoil window with two trefoils and quatrefoil above.
INTERIOR: Of two bays with arch-braced roof with purlins and ridgepiece supported on moulded stone corbels. There is plank dado panelling, wooden pews, tiled floor and an original table altar with chamfered supports. The east wall has wall paintings executed in 1905 by Gordon Hill in the style of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. These comprise an angel bearing palms to the right, an angel with crown to the left, stencilled decoration with centred "fleur de lys" and, at the apex of the gable, two angels flanking a central cross.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489949
- 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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