Description

SOWERBY BRIDGE CEMETERY LANE
SE 0423 & SE 0523
(north end, off)
12/31
Cemetery Chapel
- II
Cemetery Chapel. Mid-late C19. Coursed dressed stone, large slates to
roof, lead cupola. Cruciform plan with north porch and central fleche. Gothic
style with rectilinear tracery. Off-set diagonal buttresses continuous
stepped roll-moulded band below windows. Porch: shouldered-arched double-
door with decorative ironwork and oculus above all in pointed-arched surround.
Above porch, in gable, a spherical triangle window with head-stopped hoodmould.
West and east gables each have a 3-light window with head-stopped hoodmould.
South gable has a large circular window with star-shaped cusped tracery
and head-stopped hoodmould. Kneelers, ashlar copings and gable finials
throughout. South gable with octagonal chimney. Central octagonal flèche
has glazed, traceried sides and rises as broached, ribbed spire with lucarnes
and weathervane. This was the non-conformist chapel, a similar Anglican
chapel formerly standing to the north-west (1919 OS Map Sheet CCXXX.ll).

Listing NGR: SE0519023650

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26479045

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)