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Latitude: 51.8172 / 51°49'2"N
Longitude: -0.0435 / 0°2'36"W
OS Eastings: 534953
OS Northings: 214987
OS Grid: TL349149
Mapcode National: GBR KBL.1TC
Mapcode Global: VHGPH.6LB8
Plus Code: 9C3XRX84+VH
Entry Name: Mortuary Chapels at Ware Cemetery
Listing Date: 13 September 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1238449
English Heritage Legacy ID: 412419
ID on this website: 101238449
Location: Ware, East Hertfordshire, SG12
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Ware
Built-Up Area: Ware
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Ware
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Sepulchral chapel
WARE TOWN
TL3414NE WESTMILL ROAD
829-1/5/186 (South side)
Mortuary Chapels at Ware Cemetery
GV II
Mortuary chapels, now disused. 1854-1855. By Thomas Smith,
architect. Brick, with cement `rock' facing, with
bitumen-lined `joints', artificial stone dressings, cast
cement or Coade stone ornamental bosses and gargoyles, Welsh
slated roofs. L-plan, with twin chapels of 3 bays each at
right angles, south chapel for Anglicans, north chapel for
non-conformists, with tower in re-entrant. Free interpretation
of 14th century Decorated style.
Chapels have projecting buttresses, with lancet windows, with
cusped, and curvilinear traceried heads, principal E and W
windows of Anglican chapel and N window of non-conformist
chapel, having 3 lights, with cusped heads, and curvilinear
tracery with mouchettes. All windows in moulded reveals, with
dripmoulds above, those on side elevations continuations of
reveals, with dripmoulds above, those on side elevations
continuations of string courses. Principal east and north
doors flanked by colonnettes, with moulded caps and moulded
arches, and dripmoulds with ornamental bosses.
(Heath C: The Book of Ware. A Portrait of the Town: Chesham:
1977-: 83).
Listing NGR: TL3495314987
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