Cemetery Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery (middle of three)
Whitworth Cemetery, Edward Street, Whitworth, OL12 8LE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361990
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery (middle of three)
- Statutory Address:
- Whitworth Cemetery, Edward Street, Whitworth, OL12 8LE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361990
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery (middle of three)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Whitworth Cemetery, Edward Street, Whitworth, OL12 8LE
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:
- Whitworth Cemetery, Edward Street, Whitworth, OL12 8LE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Rossendale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 89179 18988
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/03/2019
SD 81 NE
11/239
WHITWORTH
EDWARD STREET (off)
Cemetery Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery (middle of three)
GV
II
Cemetery chapel, centre of matching set of three, late 1870s, designed by architects Maxwell and Tuke. Rock-faced sandstone, steeply-pitched slate roof with bands of green slates, red ridging tiles, chimney at rear gable. Nave with pinnacled steeple rising from west gable. High Victorian Gothic style. Buttressed west end has large four-light window with plate tracery rose in the head; two-stage tower has coupled belfry louvres at second stage, corner pinnacles and squat spire with gablets and lucarnes. On north and south sides are moulded Tudor-arched doorways, three recessed windows of two cusped lights in chamfered square surrounds.
Interior: red brick narthex at base of tower; arch-braced kingpost roof with curved struts.
Listing NGR: SD8917918988
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185818
- 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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