Description

CAMDEN

TQ2485NE FORTUNE GREEN ROAD
798-1/23/488 (West side)
14/05/74 Hampstead Cemetery Mortuary Chapels
(Formerly Listed as:
HAMPSTEAD CEMETERY
Mortuary Chapels)

GV II

Linked Church of England (south) and Nonconformist (north)
mortuary chapels. 1875-6. By Charles Bell. Random Kentish rag
rubble with Bath stone dressings. Slate roofs. Symmetrical
composition of apsidal ended 4-bay chapels linked by a
porte-cochere in Decorated Gothic style. Chapels entered from
the porte-cochere. East ends with traceried 6-light pointed
windows flanked by angle buttresses with tall finials. Apsidal
west ends of 3 gabled bays each having 2-light traceried
windows and separated by buttresses. Porte-cochere a
rectangular plan tower with buttressed angles and pointed
archway above which blind arcading and a roundel in the
gables; surmounted by an octagonal belfry under arcading and
spire. Linked to chapels by 3-bay arcaded porticoes.
INTERIORS: each chapel with an arched brace roof on foliated
corbels; large chancel arches on well-carved demi-angels into
the apses. Church of England chapel with 3 good stained glass
windows designed by J Dudley Forsyth of Hampstead. Church of
England chapel now inter-denominational; Nonconformist chapel
used as a store.

Listing NGR: TQ2488485581

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26406932

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)