SOUTH CHAPEL AT CITY OF LONDON CEMETERY

SOUTH CHAPEL AT CITY OF LONDON CEMETERY, ALDERSBROOK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357999
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: SOUTH CHAPEL AT CITY OF LONDON CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: SOUTH CHAPEL AT CITY OF LONDON CEMETERY, ALDERSBROOK ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357999
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: SOUTH CHAPEL AT CITY OF LONDON CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTH CHAPEL AT CITY OF LONDON CEMETERY, ALDERSBROOK ROAD

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.

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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:: SOUTH CHAPEL AT CITY OF LONDON CEMETERY, ALDERSBROOK ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Newham (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 42267 86285

Details

TQ 48NW ALDERSBROOK ROAD 2/7 MANOR PARK E12

- South Chapel at City of London Cemetery

GV II

1903-4. D T Ross engineer (see tablets on building). South chapel, formerly Crematorium. Rubblestone with ashlar dressings. Tiled roof with fishscale decoration. Gabled Gothic chapel with steeply pitched roof to parapet. Tower set back to right with triple louvred upper stage and pyramidal roof with elaborate octagonal ornamen- ted iron flue protruding from apex. Central entrance to chapel with pointed moulded arch and original traceried timber door, flanked by double blind arcades. Ogee headed windows to either side of chapel. Gabled corner buttresses. Later Chapel of Remembrance extension to rear, of no interest. The second crematorium in London. Originally coke-fired. Interior not seen.

Listing NGR: TQ4226786285

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Legacy System number:: 204913
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

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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.