Former Chapels at the Old Cemetery
FORMER CHAPELS AT THE OLD CEMETERY, CANWICK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388477
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Former Chapels at the Old Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CHAPELS AT THE OLD CEMETERY, CANWICK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388477
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Former Chapels at the Old Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER CHAPELS AT THE OLD CEMETERY, CANWICK 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:
- FORMER CHAPELS AT THE OLD CEMETERY, CANWICK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- Lincoln (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 98296 70020
Details
LINCOLN
SK97SE CANWICK ROAD
1941-1/2/56 (East side)
15/08/73 Former chapels at the Old Cemetery
GV II
Pair of former chapels, now disused. 1856. By Michael Drury.
Coursed and squared rubble with ashlar dressings and plain
tile roof. Gothic Revival style with pointed arched windows
and Geometrical tracery.
EXTERIOR: chamfered and moulded plinth, sill band, moulded
eaves, coped gables with crosses and finials.
North side has a central gable with an archway and shafts,
flanked by single gabled buttresses. Beyond, single blocked
3-light windows.
To left, the octagonal east chapel has angle buttresses and 3
gables, each with a 4-light window. Roof gablets. Fleche
removed.
To right, west chapel with apsidal end and buttresses, 3 bays,
with six 2-light windows with hoodmoulds. In the north gable,
a 5-light window.
Square north-west tower, 3 stages, has to north a gabled
doorway with shafts. Above, a trefoiled vescia piscis and to
east, a 2-light window. Third stage has a foiled corbel table
and to north, a rose window. On the other sides, 3-light
windows. Spire removed.
INTERIOR: east chapel has an arch braced conical roof with
collars forming a corona. West chapel has a moulded stone arch
to the apse, and an arch braced double purlin roof. Both
chapels have foliage corbels.
The cemetery was laid out by Henry Goddard.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 502-503).
Listing NGR: SK9829670020
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485922
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 502-503
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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