East Cemetery Entrance Screen and Chapel Spire

EAST CEMETERY ENTRANCE SCREEN AND CHAPEL SPIRE, LINKS ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1371136
Date first listed:
15-Sept-1988
Statutory Address:
EAST CEMETERY ENTRANCE SCREEN AND CHAPEL SPIRE, LINKS ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1371136
Date first listed:
15-Sept-1988
Statutory Address 1:
EAST CEMETERY ENTRANCE SCREEN AND CHAPEL SPIRE, LINKS ROAD

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.

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Listing NGR: NU2739404442

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