East Cemetery Entrance Screen and Chapel Spire
EAST CEMETERY ENTRANCE SCREEN AND CHAPEL SPIRE, LINKS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371136
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- East Cemetery Entrance Screen and Chapel Spire
- Statutory Address:
- EAST CEMETERY ENTRANCE SCREEN AND CHAPEL SPIRE, LINKS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371136
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- East Cemetery Entrance Screen and Chapel Spire
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST CEMETERY ENTRANCE SCREEN AND CHAPEL SPIRE, LINKS 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:
- EAST CEMETERY ENTRANCE SCREEN AND CHAPEL SPIRE, LINKS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Amble By the Sea
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 27394 04442
Details
NU 2704
14/51
AMBLE
LINKS ROAD (East side)
East Cemetery entrance screen and chapel spire
II
Entrance screen and porch/spire of former twin mortuary chapels; 1878, chapels demolished 1971. Rock-faced quadrant walls, squared stone porch/spire; cut dressings; cast iron gates. Porch/spire in free late C13 style.
Square gate piers with chamfered plinth and moulded pyramidal caps hold double gates which have shaped rails and moulded pyramid-topped bars and dogbars; low serpentine quadrant walls with arched coping. Porch has moulded arch with string-course above, quatrefoil panel and slatted belfry opening with raised surround in gabled half dormer at base of slender octagonal spire with two moulded rings. Above low diagonal buttresses the side walls are swept back to the base of the spire.
Picturesque local landmark.
Listing NGR: NU2739404442
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236719
- 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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