Mortuary Chapel
MORTUARY CHAPEL, WALCOT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395538
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Mortuary Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- MORTUARY CHAPEL, WALCOT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395538
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Mortuary Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORTUARY CHAPEL, WALCOT STREET
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:
- MORTUARY CHAPEL, WALCOT STREET
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 75155 65528
Details
WALCOT STREET 656-1/31/1783 (East side) Mortuary Chapel 12/06/50 (Formerly listed as WALCOT STREET (East side) Norman Chapel)
GV II
Former mortuary chapel. Dated 1842. By James Wilson. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roof. PLAN: Four-bay restrained cruciform plan. EXTERIOR: Neo-Norman cemetery chapel. Open west bay with arched opening to each face forming porch. Hybrid cornices (part modillions, part billets) to gables to east and west and to crossings, that to west front has stone cross-in-circle finial and dated shield, that to east end has bellcote with machicolated cornice over semicircular arched opening. Arches at west end with scalloped capitals to engaged columns, moulded string course at impost level that encircles building and rises as dripmoulds over semicircular arched windows. Plinth to rear and returns meets floor of porch. Double doors each with three vertical moulded panels have large studs to frames. Buttresses reach string course between windows, angled at corners. Two C20 plain two-pane semicircular arched windows to each return and wider two-light windows to rear; crossings have leaded spandrels. Above window to rear blind cross loop-hole, below splayed arch with blocked double railing gates. INTERIOR: Plain interior with shallow groin vault to ceiling, no intact fittings apart from a small fireplace to north-east corner, intended to warm the minister. There is a large vault beneath the chapel which exploits the fall in the land level. HISTORY: The Walcot burial ground is not shown on the 1790 'A New Plan of the City of Bath' but is marked on the 1793 'A New and Accurate Plan of the City of Bath'. Neo-Norman was an unusual style, and one deemed appropriate for cemetery buildings: Manners's chapel at the Abbey Cemetery was built in this style shortly after this example. In recent years this building has been used as Walcot village hall, and as an exhibition venue. The burial ground contains numerous memorials, mainly of Pennant Stone: these are said to include that of the writer Fanny Burney, (d.1840), who was buried with her husband General Alexandre D'Arblay (d.1818); her stone was renewed in 1902. Other notable interments here include William Hoare RA and Admiral Sir Edward Berry (d.1831) who fought at the Nile and Trafalgar. The burial ground was closed in 1875. The building was near-derelict by the mid 1970s.
Listing NGR: ST7515565528
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510946
- 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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