Description

TQ 04 NW SHALFORD HORSHAM ROAD
(west side, off)

431/4/10018 Shalford Cemetery Chapel

GV II

Cemetery chapel. 1886 by E L Lunn of Peak & Lunn; repair work c 1998. Of Bargate rubblestone brought to course with Portland stone dressings; renewed plain tile roof with decorative ridge tiles. Semi-hexagonal west and east ends, gabled south porch and north vestry. In Decorated Gothic style having: chamfered plinth; offset butresses; moulded eaves; gables with ashlar coping, moulded kneelers and finials; pointed-arched openings, the board doors with decorative iron hinges, the 2-light windows with cusped lights and sexfoils over, panels of sunken quatrefoils below and gablets with trefoils above. Porch has cusped entrance, attached colonettes with foliage-decorated capitals, ballflowers to arch, and blind quatrefoil over.
Interior: walls of red brick with blue-brick bands; floor of coloured tiles; coloured glass to windows; pews with moulded seat-dividers and brackets to side walls and west end; decorative wooden pulpit; panelled catafalque. Decorative roof has moulded stone corbels and wooden brackets; cusping to principal rafters; king-post trusses with pendant ball finials; framework for former roof feature. A good-quality non-conformist cemetery chapel with original internal fittings.

Listing NGR: TQ0006547190

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538474

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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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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version