Description

SOUTHPORT

SD31NW DUKE STREET
664-1/1/31 (North East side)
Cemetery Chapels

GV II

Pair of cemetery chapels with linking cloisters and clock
tower; the east chapel now a store. c1865, for Southport
Improvement Commissioners. Coursed sandstone rubble with
ashlar dressings, slate roofs with some polychrome
fish-scaling.
STYLE: High Victorian Gothic.
PLAN: linear 7-unit plan on north-west/south-east axis, with a
central tower linked by short cloisters to chapels at
right-angles to the main axis, each of which has a parallel
narthex or antechurch.
EXTERIOR: a striking symmetrical composition, with a tall
narrow tower in the centre, low arcaded cloisters and
steeply-gabled chapels flanked by the lower gables of their
narthexes. The tower, of 3 unequal stages, with buttresses
dying into the second stage and a steeply-gabled saddle-back
top, has a 2-centred open archway with stiff-leaf colonnettes
and a steep gablet containing a coloured tile, a band of
similar tiles, a tall 2-light louvred lancet to the second
stage with multi-foil and trefoil in the head and a hoodmould,
and a coped gable containing a clock-face and flanked by small
set-back turrets (or chimneys).
The cloisters have low arcaded windows of 3 2-centred arched
lights, and roofs of green and purple fishscale slates.
The chapels and their narthexes have short buttresses, and
roofs carried down to a low level with stepped coping and apex
crosses: the chapels have large 2-centred arched 4-light
windows, each with a moulded sill band and a hoodmould but
with differing tracery, and the narthexes have
segmental-pointed archways with hoodmoulds opening into
recessed porches with similar inner doorways.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with Eliza Fernley Lifeboat monument (qv) and with
former Roman Catholic chapel approx. 70m north (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3407115828

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659826

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