WEST CEMETERY CHAPEL

WEST CEMETERY CHAPEL, BEAR STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384999
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1999
List Entry Name:: WEST CEMETERY CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: WEST CEMETERY CHAPEL, BEAR STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384999
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1999
List Entry Name:: WEST CEMETERY CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: WEST CEMETERY CHAPEL, BEAR STREET

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:: WEST CEMETERY CHAPEL, BEAR STREET

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

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Barnstaple
National Grid Reference:: SS 56650 33354

Details

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533 BEAR STREET 684-1/3/20 (North side) West Cemetery Chapel

GV II

Cemetery chapel, one of an identical pair. 1856. To the designs of Richard Davie Gould. Snecked local slatestone; natural slate roof with crested ridge tiles. Decorated Gothic style. Close to the entrance and on the same alignment as the other chapel of the pair (qv). Shown on the OS map as the Anglican chapel of the pair. Small 3-bay chapel with gabled porch in the centre on the S side. clasping battered buttresses at ends with low buttress in the centre below the E window cill. Coped gables with kneelers; coped plinth. E and W ends identical with 3-light window with hoodmould, carved corbel heads and cusped roundels in the head tracery. Moulded string across E and W ends rises to form cill below window. S side has coped gabled porch with chamfered 2-centred arched doorway. Windows, 2 to S side, 3 to N, are 2-light traceried windows. W end has later doorway knocked in. INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain features of interest. HISTORICAL NOTE: the cemetery was founded by the Barnstaple Burial Board in 1856. RD Gould was the town surveyor. (Brooks C: Mortal Remains: Exeter: 1989-: 119).

Listing NGR: SS5665033354

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Legacy System number:: 485458
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Brooks, C, Mortal Remains, (1989), 119

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.