Twin Chapels
TWIN CHAPELS, UPPER BRISTOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395454
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Twin Chapels
- Statutory Address:
- TWIN CHAPELS, UPPER BRISTOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395454
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Twin Chapels
- Statutory Address 1:
- TWIN CHAPELS, UPPER 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:
- TWIN CHAPELS, UPPER 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 73210 65254
Details
UPPER BRISTOL ROAD (North Side)
LOCKSBROOK CEMETERY
656-1/0/0 Twin Chapels
II
Twin Mortuary Chapels (north chapel Church of England, south chapel, Non-conformist) with Bell Tower and Linking Covered Arcades. Mid C19. Hicks and Issac architects. MATERIALS: Dresses randomly coursed Pennant stone with Bath Stone dressings, Welsh Slate roof with twin bands of scalloped heather coloured slates and crested terracotta ridge tiles. PLAN: The pair of chapels are aligned north west - south east with a central bell tower linked to the chapels by a covered arcade incorporating two raised and gabled carriage arches. EXTERIOR: South east elevation comprises coped gables of each chapel with large central windows with geometrical tracery with angle buttresses with steep stepped weatherings below. Each arcade is of three bays with pointed arches on compound piers with stiff leaf capitals and abacus above. The innermost bays form carriage arches and are topped with coped gables. The inner north walls of the linking arcades have runs of blind arcading, each comprising six bays; pointed arches with cusped detail set on capitals with stiff leaf carving formerly set on colonnettes, now lost. Angels project from the springing of each arch. Over the passage at the base of the tower there is a simple cross vault with chamfered ribs and Bath Stone ashlar behind with carved figures of Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as the corbels at the base of the ribs. The doors to each chapel are vertically boarded with decorative wrought iron hinges and latches. The bell tower is tall and of three stages, with angle buttresses and two tiers of steep stepped weatherings. There is a tall broached spire above a decorative corbel table; lucarnes in each face of the spire. Belfry has `Y' tracery window in each face with scalloped wooden louvers to each opening. North elevation repeats the coped gables of the front with angle buttresses with steep stepped weatherings and large central windows with geometric tracery. The returning inner elevations comprise pairs of transverse coped gables with angle buttresses with stepped weatherings forming offices to each chapel. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: Opened as the Walcot Cemetery, and occupying twelve acres of sloping high ground to the north-west of the City, it was laid out to the designs of Mr Milner, best known for laying out the grounds of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, South London. The structures were designed by the busy Bath firm of Hickes and Issac.
Listing NGR: ST7321065254
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510857
- 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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