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Cemetery Chapels

A Grade II Listed Building in Leek, Staffordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1001 / 53°6'0"N

Longitude: -2.0248 / 2°1'29"W

OS Eastings: 398436

OS Northings: 355873

OS Grid: SJ984558

Mapcode National: GBR 24P.QWS

Mapcode Global: WHBCH.VBZS

Plus Code: 9C5V4X2G+23

Entry Name: Cemetery Chapels

Listing Date: 7 June 1972

Last Amended: 14 October 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1268618

English Heritage Legacy ID: 461623

Also known as: Cemetery Chapels, Leek

ID on this website: 101268618

Location: Barnfields, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, ST13

County: Staffordshire

District: Staffordshire Moorlands

Civil Parish: Leek

Built-Up Area: Leek

Traditional County: Staffordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire

Church of England Parish: Leek St Edward the Confessor

Church of England Diocese: Lichfield

Tagged with: Cemetery chapel

Description


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SJ95NE CONDLYFFE ROAD 611-1/1/48 (South West side) 07/06/72 Cemetery Chapels (Formerly Listed as: CEMETERY ROAD Cemetery Chapels)

GV II

Cemetery chapels. 1870. By William Sugden. Coursed and squared stone, heavy slate roof with ridge-cresting. Gothic Style. Central entrance arch with tower and spire over, flanked by 2 chapels. EXTERIOR: moulded archway beneath 2-stage tower, with chamfered plinths to stepped upper stages. Heavy pinnacles on top-most plinth. Octagonal base to spire, with gabled lucarnes in each face. Entrances to chapels beneath main entrance archway each side. 3-light Decorated windows with geometric tracery incorporating rose. Low paired windows in chapel porches each side, with stilted arched doorways. Chapels divided into 2 bays by buttresses, each with 2-light window with curvilinear tracery. 3-light geometric 'east' windows. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ9843655872

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