Ruined Chapel on West Side of Church Hill
RUINED CHAPEL ON WEST SIDE OF CHURCH HILL, A1068
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371145
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-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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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371145
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ruined Chapel on West Side of Church Hill
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUINED CHAPEL ON WEST SIDE OF CHURCH HILL, A1068
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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.
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236891
- 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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