Mortuary Chapel in Tiverton Cemetery
MORTUARY CHAPEL IN TIVERTON CEMETERY, PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384875
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Mortuary Chapel in Tiverton Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- MORTUARY CHAPEL IN TIVERTON CEMETERY, PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384875
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Mortuary Chapel in Tiverton Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORTUARY CHAPEL IN TIVERTON CEMETERY, PARK 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:
- MORTUARY CHAPEL IN TIVERTON CEMETERY, PARK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tiverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 95682 13524
Details
TIVERTON
SS9513 PARK ROAD, Tiverton
848-1/5/242 (East side)
Mortuary chapel in Tiverton Cemetery
GV II
Mortuary chapel. 1855 by GA Boyce of Tiverton. Squared
purple-red stone rubble with Bath stone dressings. Slated
roof. Anglo-Norman style.
EXTERIOR: nave has 3 single light, round-headed windows on
each side, with 3 more on the apse. Flat buttresses between
and flanking the windows. At west end a round-arched doorway
with attached columns; double plank doors, studded and with
ornate iron strap-hinges. Above it a similar, single light
window. Stone cross on gable. On eastern gable the base of a
former stone bell turret. Gutters carried on stone corbel
tables carved with grotesque heads.
INTERIOR: has simple wooden pews at either side of a centre
aisle, the pew-ends carved with quatrefoils. Wooden alter with
trefoil-headed panels. Dado of upright planking. Arch-braced
roof, the feet of the braces resting on moulded stone corbels.
There may be patterned tiles under the fitted carpets.
The chapel contains an old wooden coffin-carriage with iron
wheels having solid rubber tyres. Brass maker's plate:
DOTTRIDGE BROS. LTD. DORSET WORKS. EAST ROAD, LONDON, N. this
was one of 2 chapels built by the Burial Board for the Parish
of Tiverton `according to the plans and drawings relating
thereto prepared by Mr Gideon Acland Boyce, the Architect to
the said Burial Board'; that for the nonconformists has been
demolished, that for the Church of England survives.
HISTORY: Boyce's drawing for the nonconformist chapel
(identical to the surviving one) is preserved in the devon
Record Office. It was approved in August 1855 and was to be
finished, along with the other chapel, lodge and entrance
gates, by 1 August 1856. Plans for re-seating both chapels
were prepared by William Rowe of Tiverton in 1891, this being
done, and the floors laid with decorative tiles, by 1892.
Listing NGR: SS9568213524
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485334
- 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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