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Cemetery Chapel and Mortuary

A Grade II Listed Building in Stapleford, Nottinghamshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9299 / 52°55'47"N

Longitude: -1.2694 / 1°16'9"W

OS Eastings: 449209

OS Northings: 337198

OS Grid: SK492371

Mapcode National: GBR 7GG.9X2

Mapcode Global: WHDGX.GMR6

Plus Code: 9C4WWPHJ+X6

Entry Name: Cemetery Chapel and Mortuary

Listing Date: 14 April 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1247985

English Heritage Legacy ID: 429324

ID on this website: 101247985

Location: Stapleford, Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, NG9

County: Nottinghamshire

District: Broxtowe

Civil Parish: Stapleford

Built-Up Area: Stapleford

Traditional County: Nottinghamshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Nottinghamshire

Church of England Parish: Stapleford

Church of England Diocese: Southwell and Nottingham

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Description


SK 4937 SW BEESTON AND STAPLEFORD CEMETERY ROAD
Stapleford
(east side)

4/3 Cemetery Chapel
and Mortuary

II

Cemetery chapel and mortuary linked by an archway. 1880. For
Joseph Fearfield. C13 and C14 style. Brick and ashlar with
slate roofs. Ashlar dressings. Chamfered plinth and eaves,
moulded sill bands with stops, shouldered coped gables with
gabled kneelers. Windows are mainly lancets with linked hood
moulds and stops. Single storey, 3 bays. West side has central
stilted segmental arch with ringed shafts, flanked by corner
buttresses, 2 setoffs. Above, granite lintel inscribed "This
Cemetery ground is the gift of Joseph Fearfield, Esqre.
Stapleford 1880". East side is similar but without ornament.
Above again, 4 C13 style pinnacles. Octagonal spire has stepped
base with gable and cross to west. Bell stage has 8 double
lancet louvred openings, and moulded eaves with gargoyles. Spire
has 4 gabled lucarnes, finial and cross. Flanking porch to left
has C20 casement. Porch to right has chamfered unglazed trefoil.
Flanking mortuary and chapel have each, to west, central
buttress, 2 lancets, and above, spherical triangle window with
hood mould. Above again, small triple lancet. East ends are
similar but without buttresses. Chapel has to south central
buttressed gabled porch with C13 style doorway with shafts.
Shouldered moulded inner doorway. Mortuary has similar porch
with C20 door, flanked by flat-roofed C20 additions. Interior
has shouldered doorways each side. Chapel has C19 benches and
desk.


Listing NGR: SK4920937198

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