Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ41SE LONGDEN ROAD
653-1/4/390 (South side)
30/05/69 Shrewsbury General Cemetery
Buildings

GV II

Cemetery buildings, comprising chapels and porte-cochere
linked by a cloister, and 2 flanking lodge houses or offices.
1856. By Pountey Smith. Coursed and squared stone, the
porte-cochere partially timbered, with plain tiled roofs.
Decorated style.
Chapels divided by central tower with spire: 3-stage tower,
with paired bell-chamber lights, embattled parapet with corbel
heads and pinnacles, and octagonal spire with 3 tiers of
lucarnes. Chapel range of 7 bays divided by pilaster
buttresses with truncated pinnacles. High plinth and 2-light
Decorated windows over. 4-bay porch forming open-ended aisle,
with similar windows. Large Decorated windows of 4 and 5
lights in end walls.
Porte-cochere across the front is linked to the chapel range
by narrow cloister range with paired lancet windows between
buttresses. Porte-cochere is single-storeyed, divided into 3
bays by projecting buttresses each side of long mullioned
traceried lights. Timber gable walls, the cambered trusses
infilled with decorative traceried lights above the
full-height openings each side.
Porte-cochere is flanked by lodges each side: coursed and
squared stone with plain tiled roofs. Gables face street. The
right-hand lodge has 2-storey canted bay window with raking
stone roof, and mullioned and transomed window to ground
floor, mullioned window above, with decorative leaded glazing.
Chimney on right-hand return, and lean-to porch beyond.
Left-hand lodge has single-storeyed canted bay window with
mullioned and transomed lights and raking stone roof in gable.
Small mullioned window above, with hoodmould. Recessed wing to
left, with doorway in rear elevation in 4-centred archway, the
hoodmould continuing across the facade and stepped up over
mullioned and transomed window each side. Axial stack.

Listing NGR: SJ4875611384

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560724

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version