Description

TG 51 SW CAISTER ON SEA ORMESBY ROAD
(west side)

5/3 Cemetery Chapel, Caister
Cemetery

- II

Cemetery chapel. 1902. Brick with concrete plain tiles to roof. Chapel with,
to west, narthex and 2 rooms. Rounded entrance arch in south wall of narthex
flanked by 2 2-light traceried windows. Brick pilasters rise to pinnacles
between each of which is concave parapet. West end of narthex in 3 bays, each
bay defined by brick buttresses. 3 3-light segmental-headed windows. Parapet
below hipped roof. Roof with ridge stack. Chapel is of 4 bays, again with
brick buttresses and 3-light segmental-headed windows. Gabled roof. 5-light
east window, arched, between brick buttresses. To each side of buttresses
a short full height screen wall. Interior. Boarded dado to chapel. Queen
post roof with 4 arched braces rising from queen posts to collar purlins and
collars. Tie beams on arched braces dropping through wall posts to corbels.
Roof boarded above collar.

Listing NGR: TG5186012611

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26511366

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)