Cemetery Chapel, Walton Lane

Cemetery Chapel, Walton Lane

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1361734
Date first listed:
29-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:
Cemetery Chapel, Walton Lane
Statutory Address:
Cemetery Chapel, Walton Lane

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1361734
Date first listed:
29-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:
Cemetery Chapel, Walton Lane
Statutory Address 1:
Cemetery Chapel, Walton Lane

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Cemetery Chapel, Walton Lane

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Pendle (District Authority)
Parish:
Nelson
National Grid Reference:
SD 87303 38360

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 August 2021 to correct date of construction and to reformat the text to current standards

SD 83 NE
11/185

NELSON
WALTON LANE
Cemetery Chapel, Walton Lane

II
Cemetery chapel. 1895. Stone. Slate roof. One storey. Symmetrical. Twin chapels linked by archway with two-centred head. Multiple moulding and voussoirs. Gabled above. Square tower with trefoil headed window. Octagonal spire. Flanking chapels have gabled porch, two centred arch-headed window with geometrical tracery.Outer flat roofed section, castellated. Doorway in right hand chapel, chamfered reveals. Twin gable behind is higher with decorated chimney stack on outer return. Outer flat roofed section with moulded balustrade. Buttresses with crocketed pinnacles to higher gable and balustrade, central arch and tower. Crocketed decoration to spire. Finials on all peaks.

Listing NGR: SD8730338360

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Legacy System number:
186346
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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