Mortuary Chapels

Mortuary Chapels, Cemetery Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378799
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1999
List Entry Name:: Mortuary Chapels
Statutory Address:: Mortuary Chapels, Cemetery Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378799
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1999
List Entry Name:: Mortuary Chapels
Statutory Address 1:: Mortuary Chapels, Cemetery Road

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:: Mortuary Chapels, Cemetery Road

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: Breckland (District Authority)
Parish:: Dereham
National Grid Reference:: TF 99024 13889

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 September 2022 to correct typos in the description and reformat text to current standards

TF 9913 640/3/10037

CEMETERY ROAD (West side) Mortuary Chapels

II

Two mortuary chapels. 1869 by John Henry Brown of Norwich. Cut flint with ashlar and brick dressings; machine tiled roofs. Pair of identical single-storey chapels linked by covered walkway. Early English style.

EXTERIOR: central gabled entrance to walkway supported on stepped diagonal buttresses and entered under trefoiled arch on marble columns. Columns on stiff-leaf corbels and with stiff-leaf capitals. Arch with balls in hood. Arch voussoirs with ashlar banded with red and blue brick. Openwork cupola on ridge of roof. Screen of five timber trefoiled lights right and left on plinth wall. Within entrance are trefoiled arches leading north and south to chapels virtually identical to entrance arch, except the arched stand on stiff-leaf corbels without columns. Rear of entrance with identical arch. Rectangular chapels with stepped angle buttresses to corners.

South chapel with three-light plate-tracery east window under banded ashlar and brick arch. Stepped brick string course over window. South flank with doorway to right under punched tympanum and banded arch. Two-light plate tracery window to left with banded arch. Stepped buttress between. Red and blue brick eaves cornice. West return with bowed apsidal prominence with three trefoiled lancets, each with banded arch under conical roof. North flank with one two-light window identical to that on south side and a stepped buttress. North chapel is identical mirror-image.

INTERIOR: north chapel with collars on arched braces rising from stone corbels. Y braces to principal rafters; one tier butt purlins. Arched apsidal arch with nailhead decoration. Two rows of benches against north and south walls.

South chapel interior identical.

Listing NGR: TF9902413889

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Legacy System number:: 478154
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.