Municipal Cemetery Chapel
MUNICIPAL CEMETERY CHAPEL, SCARTHO ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379878
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Municipal Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- MUNICIPAL CEMETERY CHAPEL, SCARTHO ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379878
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Municipal Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- MUNICIPAL CEMETERY CHAPEL, SCARTHO ROAD
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:
- MUNICIPAL CEMETERY CHAPEL, SCARTHO ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 26803 07231
Details
GRIMSBY
TA2607SE SCARTHO ROAD
699-1/39/58 (East side)
09/02/98 Municipal Cemetery Chapel
GV II
Cemetery chapels. 1888 by EW Farebrother of Grimsby; J
Thompson, builder, for Grimsby Corporation Cemetery Committee.
Red brick in English bond with sandstone dressings. Green
slate roof.
STYLE: Gothic Revival.
PLAN: H-shaped: central carriage archway with tower over,
flanked by passages to a chapel on the north and south side.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, angle buttresses with moulded
offsets and gabled caps, sill string courses. Central tower
has 3 main stages. First stage has buttresses flanking an
ashlar section with a tall pointed moulded arch with banded
nook shafts, hoodmould with head-stops, elaborately-carved
spandrels with scrolled foliage in relief. Stepped-in second
stage has quoins with angle-shafts, quadruple lancets to each
side with shafted reveals. Ashlar Lombardy frieze, coped
parapet with octagonal angle-turrets supporting flying
buttresses to octagonal third belfry stage which has
angleshafts and pointed arched panels with louvred lancet
bell-openings to alternate faces. Broad ashlar frieze with
diaper-work and paterae. Octagonal spire of banded brick and
ashlar, with 4 miniature lucarnes and finial.
Central entrance passage has brick quadripartite vault with
stone ribs and central roundel; pointed moulded inner arches
to chapel entrance passages flanked by narrow blind arches.
Passages to chapels have pairs of twin lancets.
West side of each chapel has foundation stones, that to north
chapel recording date 5 November 1888, and that to south
chapel recording architect and builder. Above this, west side
of each chapel has stepped lancets with nook shafts,
hoodmoulds and carved stops; flush ashlar bands, miniature
blind stepped lancet at apex of gable; coped gable with shaped
kneelers and cross finial. North and south sides of chapels
have triple lancets. East sides have half-octagonal apses,
each with 3 pointed 2-light traceried windows.
North and south sides have triple lancets and vestries, each
with an arched door to the east side and a projecting
gable-stack with offsets and a tall chimney shaft with quoins
and corniced cap. South vestry has an inserted garage door in
south gable-end. Crested ridge-tiles throughout.
INTERIOR: chapels each have pointed moulded sanctuary arch on
octagonal responds, pointed arched door to vestry,
stained-glass windows in sanctuaries with figures of saints,
arch-braced roof carried on foliate corbels. South chapel now
used as a store.
Forms part of a group with the Municipal Cemetery gateway and
lodge (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 339; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.65; Grimsby Borough
Planning Department: Scartho Road Cemetery Leaflets: Grimsby
Borough Council: 1994-).
Listing NGR: TA2680307231
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479320
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 339
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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