Cemetery Chapel
CEMETERY CHAPEL, DEFFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387050
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- CEMETERY CHAPEL, DEFFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387050
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CEMETERY CHAPEL, DEFFORD 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:
- CEMETERY CHAPEL, DEFFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pershore
- National Grid Reference:
- SO9378045358
Details
SO94NW
648-1/1/107
PERSHORE
DEFFORD ROAD
(West side (off))
Cemetery Chapel
II
Cemetery Chapel, part now workshop. 1875. Of coursed
rubblestone with ashlar limestone dressings. Plain tile roof
with stone verges and decorative ridge tiles.
STYLE: Gothic Revival.
EXTERIOR: 2 chapels, E one with tower, divided by tall,
gabled, hearse entrance. E, formerly Anglican, chapel: offset
buttresses, some diagonal; side-windows of 2 cusped lights and
a trefoil over; similar, larger, east window under hoodmould
with decorative stops; protruding eaves course and chamfered
plinth.
W chapel, formerly Roman Catholic, is similar but smaller.
Hearse entrance has tall steeply-pitched gables with 3 trefoil
openings; moulded pointed arches with decorative stops, 3/4
round shafts, and stiff-leaf capitals; high, moulded, plinths;
diagonal corner buttresses.
Within archway are opposed chapel doors.
Tower on SE side of archway is 4-sided and has splay-footed
spire with 8 louvred lancets below frieze; weather vane;
angled lower string-course; plinth. The W chapel has been used
as a workshop since 1936.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
A well-articulated example of its type.
Listing NGR: SO9378045358
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474466
- 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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