Cemetery Chapels
CEMETERY CHAPELS, CEMETERY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271585
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address:
- CEMETERY CHAPELS, CEMETERY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271585
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Cemetery Chapels
- Statutory Address 1:
- CEMETERY CHAPELS, CEMETERY 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 CHAPELS, CEMETERY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Gloucester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 84257 16742
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO81NW CEMETERY ROAD 844-1/3/60 (North side) Cemetery Chapels
II
Cemetery chapels within Gloucester Cemetery. 1857, by Medland and Maberly for the Corporation of the City of Gloucester. In Ashlar with features in darker stone, gabled tiled roofs with later repairs but retaining original red and black tiles in diaper pattern and decorative ridge tiles. Decorated Gothic Style. Symmetrical; two parallel chapels, one for Anglicans, the other for Nonconformists, flanking a tall central tower enclosing a central carriageway; each chapel is entered either through a cross passage from the carriageway, or from an entrance porch in the centre of the outer side of each chapel. EXTERIOR: offset plinth to all parts of the building, and a moulded string course below the fenestration; the central tower of two square stages and an inset octagonal stage capped by the bottom courses of a proposed spire; the two lower stages of the tower have diagonal corner buttresses with gablet offsets at the top of the first stage, and panelled pinnacles and pieced parapets crowning the second stage; the octagonal stage has angle buttresses and a crenellated parapet and each canted face of the octagon is supported by a pierced flying buttress springing from the base of a pinnacle. On the east and west sides of the tower tall arched entries to the carriageway; on each cardinal face of the octagon a two-light window with cusped tracery; both chapels have diagonal corner buttresses and coped gables with kneelers, Each of the west gable-end walls has a central offset buttresses between a pair of two-light windows and in each of the east gable-end walls a three-light window, all with cusped tracery and hoodmoulds, in the apex of the gables to each chapel an arched roof-light with varied tracery and hoodmoulds. In the side walls of each chapel, on each side of the linking passages and the outer porches, two-light windows with cusped heads to each light; the outer porches have coped gables, moulded arched doorways with hoodmoulds and a quatrefoil light in each side. INTERIOR: not inspected. The building is a fine example of the type of linked chapels often provided in corporation cemeteries in the C19.
Listing NGR: SO8425716742
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472143
- 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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