Former Roman Catholic Cemetery Chapel
FORMER ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY CHAPEL, DUKE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379579
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Roman Catholic Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY CHAPEL, DUKE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379579
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Roman Catholic Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY CHAPEL, 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:
- FORMER ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY CHAPEL, 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 34059 15892
Details
SOUTHPORT
SD31NW DUKE STREET
664-1/1/32 (North East side)
Former Roman Catholic Cemetery
Chapel
GV II
Cemetery chapel, now disused. Probably 1865. Coursed sandstone
rubble with ashlar dressings, steeply-pitched slate roof with
bands of blue, green and purple slate.
STYLE: Early English style.
PLAN: small building on north-south axis, with east porch,
3-sided north apse, and west wing (probably vestry).
EXTERIOR: the gabled porch, off-set north of centre, has angle
buttresses, stepped gable coping (the upper portion dislodged
and lying loose on the ground), a segmental-pointed outer
archway with double-chamfered surround and a dripmould, and a
similarly arched inner doorway. Left of the porch is a small
segmental-pointed one-light window.
The south gable has a strongly stepped triple-lancet window
with hoodmoulds, and gable coping with an apex cross.
The apse has low buttresses, a 2-centred arched 2-light window
under a gable in the centre and small arched-triangle windows
in the flanking sides.
On the west side is a short gabled wing with angle buttresses
and a very tall gable chimney with off-sets.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with adjacent Cemetery Chapels (qv).
Listing NGR: SD3405915892
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478966
- 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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