Description

BRENTWOOD

TQ59SE LORNE ROAD, Warley 723-1/8/89 (West side) Cemetery Chapel

II

Cemetery chapel. Mid-C19. Random Kentish rag-stone walling with oolitic limestone dressings, chamfered plinth, slate roofs. Rectangular 2-bayed nave to E and smaller chancel to W. Vestry to N of chancel. EXTERIOR: Principal features, elaborate bellcote over junction of nave/chancel with gablets over lateral buttressing, also heavy buttresses at angles and bay interval of nave. Windows now mainly boarded over. S elevation, triple lancet windows in each bay of nave with heavy oolitic surrounds following lancet form but flat topped. Buttresses all similar with overlapped coping stones battered out to moulding, 3 to nave, one to chancel. 4 bell-cote gablets ascending to apex. E and W end copings have apex gablets. N elevation similar to S but vestry gable at W end has a triple lancet window in a Gothic arched recess of polygonal stonework. Central lancet of taller, trefoil form. W end, chancel window in Gothic arched recess with lower, triple lancet window, and upper tri-lobed window with split cusps and diamond patterned lead canes (glass missing). Above, behind, bellcote prominent with Gothic arched bell opening with interior split cusped trefoil (bell missing). 4 gablet roof pitches down N and S sides. To N, blank side wall of vestry in polygonal stonework. E elevation, principal entrance, segment headed doorway, roll moulded with broach stops at base of jambs, boarded door with decorative strap hinges. Above, flat-based, spherical-sided, triangular window with inner rose. Rose design based on hexagon of roundels surrounding central roundel, all containing split-cusped trefoils. The 3 spandrels have similar roundels. Angle buttresses similar to sides. INTERIOR, not fully inspected but appears to be plain.

Listing NGR: TQ5914792540

External Links

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