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Latitude: 54.8604 / 54°51'37"N
Longitude: -1.8445 / 1°50'40"W
OS Eastings: 410081
OS Northings: 551743
OS Grid: NZ100517
Mapcode National: GBR HDK7.GH
Mapcode Global: WHC46.M3W9
Plus Code: 9C6WV564+56
Entry Name: West Mortuary Chapel in Blackhill Cemetery
Listing Date: 21 January 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1261051
English Heritage Legacy ID: 438829
ID on this website: 101261051
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
Tagged with: Chapel
NZ 15 SW CONSETT DURHAM ROAD
(South side)
Blackhill
6/35 West Mortuary
Chapel in Blackhill
Cemetery
GV II
Mortuary chapel, now Parks and Cemeteries Department store-room. 1876.
Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins; Welsh slate
roof with stone gable copings. T-plan; Decorated style. Aligned north-south;
nave and ritual north transept, with porch in angle between. Gable to front
has diagonally-boarded double doors in cusped, 2-centred arch with shafted,
moulded surround; dripmould continuous with string on flanking coped buttresses;
large wheel window above has central star-of-David tracery; small lancet in
gable peak. Porch has open arch and blind trefoil; bell turret at left of main
gable has shouldered cusped lights under brattished parapet. Steeply-pitched
stone coping below belfry with cusped gabled arcade and octagonal spire with
patterned bands and wrought-iron finial.
Right return has 4 spherical-triangular lights with varied tracery in panels,
the bays defined by buttresses; large 4-light traceried rear window; left
transept has 2-light gable window with cusped plate tracery. Steeply-pitched
roofs have elaborate stone cross finials, one missing; and gabled kneelers.
Listing NGR: NZ1008151743
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