Latitude: 52.4021 / 52°24'7"N
Longitude: 1.6076 / 1°36'27"E
OS Eastings: 645501
OS Northings: 284351
OS Grid: TM455843
Mapcode National: GBR YVK.C8R
Mapcode Global: VHM6R.TW7G
Plus Code: 9F43CJ25+R2
Entry Name: Sotterley Cemetery Memorial Chapel
Listing Date: 12 October 2004
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1391195
English Heritage Legacy ID: 492045
ID on this website: 101391195
Location: Sotterley, East Suffolk, NR34
County: Suffolk
District: East Suffolk
Civil Parish: Sotterley
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Sotterley with Willingham St Margaret
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: Chapel
1062/0/10001
12-OCT-04
SOTTERLEY
SOUTHWELL LANE
Sotterley Cemetery Memorial Chapel
GV
II
Cemetery chapel. c.1885. Possibly by Sir Arthur Blomfield. For the Barne family of nearby Sotterley Hall. Red brick with brick plinth and cornice and with stone dressings. Plain tile pyramidal roof with cross finial. Octagonal plan with gabled porches facing north and south. Gothic style with stepped buttresses to porches and angles of chapel. South porch has double doors within Gothic arch and gable has copings. Each of the faces of the chapel has a Gothic window with leaded glazing and stone surround. The north porch has stone arch, coped gable and a small quatrefoil window on each side.
INTERIOR has plastered walls, boarded ceiling and pews backing onto the walls matching the octagonal shape.
HISTORY. The chapel is likely to have been built shortly after the Sotterley Burial Board bought the land for the cemetery from the Sotterley Estate in 1883. The octagonal shape is exceptionally unusual for a cemetery chapel and it is possible that it was designed by the well-known architect, Sir Arthur Blomfield, who produced plans for the restoration of the nearby church in Sotterley Park before his death in 1899. The restorations were carried out for Lady Constance Barne in 1900. The Blomfields were landowners in the Ipswich and Stowmarket areas.
This is a virtually intact and very unusual cemetery chapel of the late C19 which forms a good group with the First World War memorial (q.v.) nearby.
SOURCE.
Brown, C., Haward, B., and Kindred, R., Dictionary of Architects of Suffolk Buildings 1800-1914, 1991.
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