Cemetery Chapel of Widcombe, Lyncombe and St James's Cemetery
CEMETERY CHAPEL OF WIDCOMBE, LYNCOMBE AND ST JAMES'S CEMETERY, LOWER BRISTOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395111
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapel of Widcombe, Lyncombe and St James's Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- CEMETERY CHAPEL OF WIDCOMBE, LYNCOMBE AND ST JAMES'S CEMETERY, LOWER BRISTOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395111
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapel of Widcombe, Lyncombe and St James's Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- CEMETERY CHAPEL OF WIDCOMBE, LYNCOMBE AND ST JAMES'S CEMETERY, LOWER BRISTOL 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 OF WIDCOMBE, LYNCOMBE AND ST JAMES'S CEMETERY, LOWER BRISTOL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 74123 64562
Details
LOWER BRISTOL ROAD (South side) Cemetery Chapel of Widcombe, Lyncombe and St James's Cemetery 05/08/75
GV II
Pair of cemetery chapels. 1861-1862, by CE Davis. MATERIALS: Lias with limestone ashlar dressings, plain tile roof. PLAN: Ornate pair of apsidal chapels, each with small transeptal chapels, joined on their main axes by two-bay open port cochere, crowed by remains of fleche. Group is strictly symmetrical, on east-west axis. STYLE: French Flamboyant style. EXTERIOR: Each chapel has octagonal apse, with five high coped gables on two-light traceried windows, and two stage square buttresses, balancing chapels have lower ridges, clasping square buttresses, with three-light traceried windows, all with moulded drip courses. North side each chapel has pointed plank door with strap hinges to apsidal side. Short naves in two-bays, with two small two-light traceried windows to flat segmental heads. Above nave bays are quatrefoil pierced parapets, and high plinth with double offset continues round whole unit. Lower level is transverse gabled roof of porte-cochere, with two high moulded pointed arches on shafts, with square buttresses to gabled and crocketed heads, central buttress carried up to base of central cruciform fleche, cropped at level part way up former pinnacles. Open porches each have simple quadripartite ribbed vault, giving to inner porch with plank door on strap hinges, pointed arch below fleche in wall between two halves. Each side of arches has single small bay to porches with square light having reticulated tracery. Ten original cast iron downpipes and hopperheads each side of building, and lead spouts to apsidal valleys. Each apse has delicate wrought iron terminal feature. INTERIORS: Stripped of most fittings. Walls unplastered, with heavy double chamfered `chancel arch' on shafts with capitals, to scissor rafters roofs. Chapels are enclosed by timber screens. Fully detailed Gothic Revival chapels.
Listing NGR: ST7412364562
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510530
- 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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