Description

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

External Links

• Wikidata Q26552030

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