Anglican Chapel at Highland Road Cemetery
ANGLICAN CHAPEL AT HIGHLAND ROAD CEMETERY, HIGHLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390906
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Anglican Chapel at Highland Road Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- ANGLICAN CHAPEL AT HIGHLAND ROAD CEMETERY, HIGHLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390906
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Anglican Chapel at Highland Road Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANGLICAN CHAPEL AT HIGHLAND ROAD CEMETERY, HIGHLAND 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:
- ANGLICAN CHAPEL AT HIGHLAND ROAD CEMETERY, HIGHLAND ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Portsmouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 65897 98932
Details
PORTSMOUTH
774-1/0/10028 HIGHLAND ROAD 09-JUL-04 Southsea Anglican Chapel at Highland Road Cemet ery
GV II Cemetery chapel. Circa 1854 designed by Thomas Ellis Owen. Gothic style. Built of grey stone rubble with Bath stone dressings and slate roof with central lead base remaining, probably to a spirelet. Rectangular two bay structure. EXTERIOR: The west end has a gabled bellcote with pseudo-machicolations beneath. Below is a blank lancet window and gabled porch with pointed arch with stone colonnettes and double door with scrolled iron hinges. The north and south sides have carved stone brackets to eaves and arched windows with double trefoils and quatrefoils above divided by stone buttresses. The east end has a larger arched window with triple trefoils below and pattern of quatrefoils above, under dripmoulding with stone corbels. There is a deep plinth and a band to the east end only. HISTORY: Highland Road Cemetery was the only cemetery to be built by Thomas Ellis Owen. This stone Gothic style Anglican chapel forms an interesting contrast with the Byzantine style Non-conformist chapel in polychrome brickwork. Gothic style stone Anglican cemetery chapel by Portsmouth architect Thomas Ellis Owen, one of a series of cemetery buildings.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491556
- 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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