Cemetery Chapels
CEMETERY CHAPELS, DUKE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379578
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address:
- CEMETERY CHAPELS, DUKE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379578
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address 1:
- CEMETERY CHAPELS, DUKE STREET
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:
- CEMETERY CHAPELS, DUKE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 34071 15828
Details
SOUTHPORT
SD31NW DUKE STREET
664-1/1/31 (North East side)
Cemetery Chapels
GV II
Pair of cemetery chapels with linking cloisters and clock
tower; the east chapel now a store. c1865, for Southport
Improvement Commissioners. Coursed sandstone rubble with
ashlar dressings, slate roofs with some polychrome
fish-scaling.
STYLE: High Victorian Gothic.
PLAN: linear 7-unit plan on north-west/south-east axis, with a
central tower linked by short cloisters to chapels at
right-angles to the main axis, each of which has a parallel
narthex or antechurch.
EXTERIOR: a striking symmetrical composition, with a tall
narrow tower in the centre, low arcaded cloisters and
steeply-gabled chapels flanked by the lower gables of their
narthexes. The tower, of 3 unequal stages, with buttresses
dying into the second stage and a steeply-gabled saddle-back
top, has a 2-centred open archway with stiff-leaf colonnettes
and a steep gablet containing a coloured tile, a band of
similar tiles, a tall 2-light louvred lancet to the second
stage with multi-foil and trefoil in the head and a hoodmould,
and a coped gable containing a clock-face and flanked by small
set-back turrets (or chimneys).
The cloisters have low arcaded windows of 3 2-centred arched
lights, and roofs of green and purple fishscale slates.
The chapels and their narthexes have short buttresses, and
roofs carried down to a low level with stepped coping and apex
crosses: the chapels have large 2-centred arched 4-light
windows, each with a moulded sill band and a hoodmould but
with differing tracery, and the narthexes have
segmental-pointed archways with hoodmoulds opening into
recessed porches with similar inner doorways.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with Eliza Fernley Lifeboat monument (qv) and with
former Roman Catholic chapel approx. 70m north (qv).
Listing NGR: SD3407115828
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478965
- 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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