RUINED CHAPEL ON WEST SIDE OF CHURCH HILL

RUINED CHAPEL ON WEST SIDE OF CHURCH HILL, A1068

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1371145
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: RUINED CHAPEL ON WEST SIDE OF CHURCH HILL
Statutory Address:: RUINED CHAPEL ON WEST SIDE OF CHURCH HILL, A1068

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1371145
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: RUINED CHAPEL ON WEST SIDE OF CHURCH HILL
Statutory Address 1:: RUINED CHAPEL ON WEST SIDE OF CHURCH HILL, A1068

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:: RUINED CHAPEL ON WEST SIDE OF CHURCH HILL, A1068

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

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Alnmouth
National Grid Reference:: NU 24577 09963

Details

NU 20 NW NU 24580996 ALNMOUTH A 1068 (East side, off)

10/1 Ruined chapel on west side of Church Hill II

Mortuary Chapel, 1870. Snecked rubble with roughly-tooled quoins and dressings, except for ashlar south doorway. Roofless. Romanesque style. Small rectangular building. South wall has doorway with chevron, pellets and zigzag ornaments; upper parts of jamb shafts remain, with scalloped capitals. Round-arched chamfered windows in south, west and north walls; similar paired lights in east gable. Steeply-pitched gables with moulded kneelers and coping partly fallen.

Built 1869-70 at a cost of 177.6s.3d. raised by public subscription, as part of a plan to re-open the cemetery on Church Hill (site of the ancient parish church of St. Waleric, the remains of which were destroyed by the 1806 flood). Included for historic interest.

Listing NGR: NU2457709963

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Legacy System number:: 236891
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.