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Latitude: 54.8604 / 54°51'37"N
Longitude: -1.8437 / 1°50'37"W
OS Eastings: 410133
OS Northings: 551744
OS Grid: NZ101517
Mapcode National: GBR HDK7.NG
Mapcode Global: WHC46.N389
Plus Code: 9C6WV564+5G
Entry Name: East Mortuary Chapel of Benfieldside Cemetery
Listing Date: 21 January 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1240407
English Heritage Legacy ID: 438830
ID on this website: 101240407
Location: Benfieldside Cemetery, Blackhill, County Durham, DH8
County: County Durham
Electoral Ward/Division: Consett North
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Consett
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Consett
Church of England Diocese: Durham
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NZ 15 SW CONSETT DURHAM ROAD
(South side)
Blackhill
6/36 East mortuary chapel
of Benfieldside
cemetery
GV II
Mortuary chapel, now Parks and Cemeteries Department store-room.1876.
Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh
slate roof with stone gable copings. T-plan; Decorated style. Aligned north-
south, with nave and south transept, and porch in angle between the two.
Ritual west gable, to front, has diagonally-boarded double doors in chamfered
2-centred arch with moulded, shafted surround; dripmould continuous with string
on flanking coped buttresses; large wheel window above with cusped tracery;
lancet in gable peak; porch to right has open arch below blind trefoil in gable
peak; tower to right of main gable has shouldered and cusped lights below
brattished parapet. Steeply-pitched stone coping below belfry with cusped
arcade, and patterned bands on octagonal spire with wrought-iron finial. Left
return has 2 vehicle doors inserted in buttressed bays, and panel in third bay
containing spherical-triangular window. Right return transept gable has 2-light
window with cusped plate tracery; large 4-light east window. Steeply-pitched
roofs have gabled kneelers; elaborate stone cross finials.
Listing NGR: NZ1013351744
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