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Latitude: 50.3867 / 50°23'12"N
Longitude: -3.518 / 3°31'4"W
OS Eastings: 292180
OS Northings: 55196
OS Grid: SX921551
Mapcode National: GBR QX.81RM
Mapcode Global: FRA 38J0.TGG
Plus Code: 9C2R9FPJ+MR
Entry Name: Cemetery Chapel, Including Retaining Walls at Either Side
Listing Date: 10 January 1975
Last Amended: 18 October 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1209764
English Heritage Legacy ID: 383609
ID on this website: 101209764
Location: St Mary's Church, Higher Brixham, Torbay, Devon, TQ5
County: Torbay
Civil Parish: Brixham
Built-Up Area: Brixham
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Brixham St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
Tagged with: Cemetery chapel
BRIXHAM
SX9255 DREW STREET, Higher Brixham
1946-1/7/106 (South East side)
10/01/75 Cemetery chapel, including retaining
walls at either side
(Formerly Listed as:
DREW STREET, Higher Brixham
Non-conformist Chapel and Wall)
GV II
Cemetery chapel and wall. Dated 1861. Coursed and squared
Devonian limestone rubble with red-brick quoins and wall tops.
Slated roof, gable-end on to street. Consists of a small
oblong room with a wide doorway in the middle of front wall
and a matching one (now blocked) in centre of rear wall.
Gothic style. One storey. Tall, wide chamfered doorway with
pointed arch and double plank doors; flanked by 2 lancet
windows with pointed arches; 6 panes per window. Above the
doorway is a shield inscribed A.D.1861. Front has red-brick
quoins and red-brick wall tops, the latter finished with a
stone coping and kneelers. Side-walls each have 2 lancet
windows with pointed arches (now blocked). Retaining wall
finished with red bricks, 3 upright ones alternating with 3
headers; chamfered coping on top. Pilasters break the wall
face at regular intervals, these rising above the coping where
they have red-brick quoins and gabled caps. INTERIOR of
chapel: plain with exposed tie-beam trusses having raking
struts from tie to principal. A few original benches remain.
An early example of polychrome Gothic. This is a nonconformist
chapel with its own cemetery at the rear, abutting the C of E
churchyard of St Mary the Virgin (qv).
Listing NGR: SX9218055196
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