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Cemetery Chapel

A Grade II Listed Building in Sowerby Bridge, Calderdale

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7093 / 53°42'33"N

Longitude: -1.9228 / 1°55'22"W

OS Eastings: 405190

OS Northings: 423650

OS Grid: SE051236

Mapcode National: GBR HT0K.H2

Mapcode Global: WHB8N.F1L7

Plus Code: 9C5WP35G+PV

Entry Name: Cemetery Chapel

Listing Date: 19 July 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1183779

English Heritage Legacy ID: 339154

ID on this website: 101183779

Location: Sowerby Bridge Cemetery, Friendly, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, HX6

County: Calderdale

Electoral Ward/Division: Sowerby Bridge

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Sowerby Bridge

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Sowerby St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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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

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