Description

CARLISLE

NY3954 RICHARDSON STREET 671-1/15/246 Carlisle Cemetery Chapel

GV II

Mortuary chapel (formerly the Anglican chapel) for Carlisle cemetery. 1855-6 by Messrs JM & J Hay of Liverpool. Flemish bond red brick on moulded plinth (all dressings of calciferous sandstone), with flush stone quoins, sill band, buttresses and modillioned eaves cornice. Steeply-pitched graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and finials; decorative trident-speared cast-iron ridge rail. Small 4-bay chapel, aligned north-south; north door (to face other chapel), west porch and corresponding east transept; north open bellcote. North double plank doors with scrolled wrought-iron hinge brackets, in pointed arch of 2 orders; lancet side lights under continuous hoodmould with king and queen carved stone heads as springers. Rose window over door. West porch has a similar doorway. Windows are 2-light and cusped headed. South 4-light traceried window, hoodmoulds over each window, with carved head label stops. INTERIOR has open timber roof, the trusses supported by low carved head corbels. Some stained glass with IHS motive. Pews not fixed and C20 altar.

Listing NGR: NY3918454356

External Links

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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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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Old House Care and Repair