Description

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TQ 1874 GROVE ROAD

24/46 Church of England
Chapel
Richmond Cemetery

II

Cemetery Chapel. Built 1875 by Sir Arthur Blomfield. Built of squared hammer
dressed Kentish ragstone with Bath stone bands and enrichments. Tiled roof with
remains of fleche. Stone coping to gables with cavetto mouldings. Cruciform
plan. Buttressed gable front with Gothic entrance arch inscribed "IN THE GARDEN
THERE WAS A NEW SEPULCHRE, THERE LAID THEY JESUS", diapered spandrels. Three
lancets over entrance (central one blind) with hood moulds; wheel window in apex
(apex stone missing). Side elevations with two lancets and transept gables with
two light and foliate-pierced plate tracery; on the west side a "belfry"
disguising flue terminal from fireplace. At the rear three long lancets and
consecration stone. Internally, trussed-timber open roof, sedilia, piscina,
tiled floor and altar steps (altar removed) fireplace and 2 bench seats.

Listing NGR: TQ1893074284

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of England Chapel Richmond Cemetery at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q27082837

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)