Sotterley Cemetery Memorial Chapel
SOTTERLEY CEMETERY MEMORIAL CHAPEL, SOUTHWELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391195
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Sotterley Cemetery Memorial Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- SOTTERLEY CEMETERY MEMORIAL CHAPEL, SOUTHWELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391195
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Sotterley Cemetery Memorial Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOTTERLEY CEMETERY MEMORIAL CHAPEL, SOUTHWELL LANE
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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:
- SOTTERLEY CEMETERY MEMORIAL CHAPEL, SOUTHWELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sotterley
- National Grid Reference:
- TM4550184351
Details
1062/0/10001
12-OCT-04
SOTTERLEY
SOUTHWELL LANE
Sotterley Cemetery Memorial Chapel
GV
II
Cemetery chapel. c.1885. Possibly by Sir Arthur Blomfield. For the Barne family of nearby Sotterley Hall. Red brick with brick plinth and cornice and with stone dressings. Plain tile pyramidal roof with cross finial. Octagonal plan with gabled porches facing north and south. Gothic style with stepped buttresses to porches and angles of chapel. South porch has double doors within Gothic arch and gable has copings. Each of the faces of the chapel has a Gothic window with leaded glazing and stone surround. The north porch has stone arch, coped gable and a small quatrefoil window on each side.
INTERIOR has plastered walls, boarded ceiling and pews backing onto the walls matching the octagonal shape.
HISTORY. The chapel is likely to have been built shortly after the Sotterley Burial Board bought the land for the cemetery from the Sotterley Estate in 1883. The octagonal shape is exceptionally unusual for a cemetery chapel and it is possible that it was designed by the well-known architect, Sir Arthur Blomfield, who produced plans for the restoration of the nearby church in Sotterley Park before his death in 1899. The restorations were carried out for Lady Constance Barne in 1900. The Blomfields were landowners in the Ipswich and Stowmarket areas.
This is a virtually intact and very unusual cemetery chapel of the late C19 which forms a good group with the First World War memorial (q.v.) nearby.
SOURCE.
Brown, C., Haward, B., and Kindred, R., Dictionary of Architects of Suffolk Buildings 1800-1914, 1991.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492045
- 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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