Chapel at Cromer Old Cemetery

Holt Road, Cromer, Norfolk, NR27 9EB

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Overview

Cemetery chapel built 1860-1861. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1471821
Date first listed:: 18-Aug-2020
List Entry Name:: Chapel at Cromer Old Cemetery
Statutory Address:: Holt Road, Cromer, Norfolk, NR27 9EB

This small chapel looks rather neglected as is the surrounding graveyard, The windows are all fenced of and boarded and — Uploaded by M Hobbs This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1471821
Date first listed:: 18-Aug-2020
List Entry Name:: Chapel at Cromer Old Cemetery
Statutory Address 1:: Holt Road, Cromer, Norfolk, NR27 9EB

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Holt Road, Cromer, Norfolk, NR27 9EB

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Norfolk
District:: North Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Cromer
National Grid Reference:: TG2119841959

Summary

Cemetery chapel built 1860-1861.

Reasons for Designation

The Chapel at Cromer Old Cemetery is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* this is a finely detailed chapel with its knapped flint and flint galleting to the exterior, and it retains its interior with box pews and pulpit.

Group value: * it has group value with four listed headstones in the cemetery.

History

The land for Cromer Cemetery was donated by B B Cabell of Cromer Hall in 1860. There was originally a private path between the cemetery and the hall. A quarter of the cemetery was reserved for dissenters, the rest was consecrated for Anglicans. The cemetery closed to burials in 1908.

Details

Cemetery chapel, disused. 1860-1861.

Finely coursed knapped flint with flint galletting and red brick dressings. Slate roof with brick coped gables and kneelers and terracotta finials. Gothic style with buttresses and angle buttresses with set-offs. Single storey. Sides have opposing double doors at west end then two single-light windows separated by buttresses. Ends have three-light windows with loopholes above. All windows at present boarded (2004).

INTERIOR. This retains box pews with fielded panels. The pews are arranged either side of the chapel in collegiate style with the pulpit linking them across the east end. This has Gothic detailing to the front panels. There is a further pew across the whole of the west end. Both end windows retain diamond leaded-light windows finely painted with decorative crosses and which also have coloured glass borders. Similar glazing survives in part in the side windows. A brass plaque at the west end records the gift by Benjamin Bond Cabell of the land for the cemetery and of the windows in 1860 and 1861. The roof is of curved braces to collars rising from stone corbels.

This is a finely detailed small cemetery chapel which has the unusual survival of the box pews and pulpit. It also forms a good group with the four listed headstones in the cemetery.

Sources

Websites
Norfolk Heritage Explorer, accessed 5 August 2020 from http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF33459-Cromer-Cemetery-Holt-Road&Index=30683&RecordCount=57338&SessionID=13e49eb9-a409-4f1f-8738-a5f6b107c499

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.