Roman Catholic Cemetery Chapel, Perrymead Cemetery
Roman Catholic cemetery chapel in Perrymead Cemetery, Pope's Walk, Bath
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1406479
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Cemetery Chapel, Perrymead Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- Roman Catholic cemetery chapel in Perrymead Cemetery, Pope's Walk, Bath
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1406479
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Cemetery Chapel, Perrymead Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- Roman Catholic cemetery chapel in Perrymead Cemetery, Pope's Walk, Bath
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:
- Roman Catholic cemetery chapel in Perrymead Cemetery, Pope's Walk, Bath
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:
- ST7586463494
Summary
Roman Catholic cemetery chapel, c1859. By Mr Hill, probably William Hill of Leeds.
Reasons for Designation
* Architectural interest: it is a good example of mid-C19 Gothic Revival architecture on a modest scale;
* Group value: it forms a group with the Eyre Chantry building of c.1860 which is also in the Roman Catholic burial ground at Perrymead
History
A C19 cemetery chapel, probably designed by William Hill of Leeds in the Gothic Revival style c1859.
Details
MATERIALS: limestone ashlar, with Welsh slate roofs.
PLAN: a two bay nave, single bay chancel, and small south-east vestry.
EXTERIOR: Gothic Revival in style. The west door has two orders of colonnettes with stiff-leaf capitals. There is an inscription to the pointed arch between the orders. There is a hoodmould with carved head stops. Original plank double doors and ironmongery. The gable above the door has a circular window containing three circular lights. There are diagonal buttresses and the nave elevations have two bays separated by buttress, and lancet lights with cusped heads. The gables are coped and have a gable cross. The coping which separates the nave from chancel carries a bell cote. The chancel is a single bay with lancet on the north side and a vestry covering south side. The east wall has three-light Decorated window with trefoils and quatrefoils in the head tracery, with a hoodmould above. Below is a panelled band with four marble inscription panels, and above, a trefoil ventilator and gable cross. Slates of the chancel roof are banded in grey and purple. The vestry has a two-light east window of a similar type, and two lancets to the side. There is a round stone chimney, and tile cresting.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Sources
Books and journals
Forsyth, M, Pevsner Architectural Guides: Bath, (2003), 286
Jackson, N, Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture, (1991), 147
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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