Two Cemetery Chapels, Cheltenham Cemetery
TWO CEMETERY CHAPELS, CHELTENHAM CEMETERY, BOUNCERS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386763
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Two Cemetery Chapels, Cheltenham Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- TWO CEMETERY CHAPELS, CHELTENHAM CEMETERY, BOUNCERS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386763
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Two Cemetery Chapels, Cheltenham Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- TWO CEMETERY CHAPELS, CHELTENHAM CEMETERY, BOUNCERS LANE
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:
- TWO CEMETERY CHAPELS, CHELTENHAM CEMETERY, BOUNCERS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cheltenham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 97161 23092
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO92SE BOUNCERS LANE 630-1/2/214 Two Cemetery Chapels, Cheltenham 14/12/83 Cemetery (Formerly Listed as: BOUNCERS LANE Cemetery Chapels)
GV II
Chapels. c1864, by WH Knight, architect. Builders, Messers Billing and Sons. Coursed rough-faced rubble with ashlar dressings. Hard glazed tiles with fishscale bands to roofs, weathered coping cross finials. PLAN/EXTERIOR: the Anglican and Non-Conformist chapels form a symmetrical composition with 3-bay link blocks and a central entrance feature capped by a 2-stage tower with stone spire. Decorated Gothic style with carved steps, strings and large 4-light geometric window and a spherical triangle above. Link passages set one bay back and with central bayed breaks which have 2-light windows with quatrefoils to heads. Pierced parapet. Tower has diagonal buttresses and arcaded belfry stage. Broach spire has arched vents with lucarnes and canopied pedestals on the corner. Returns: 4-bay chapels with gablets above foiled oculi above each window. Projecting gabled porches to outer sides have plank doors in trefoil-headed openings. INTERIOR: retain original joinery and plasterwork, otherwise not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the competition for the cemetery was won by Knight in 1862. Despite the mid C20 additions to the rear, this survives as the finest Victorian cemetery chapel in England, enhanced by its parkland setting.
Listing NGR: SO9716123092
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474162
- 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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