Description

MANSFIELD

SK55NW NOTTINGHAM ROAD
924-1/3/81 (West side (off))
Cemetery Chapel at Mansfield
Cemetery

II

Cemetery chapel, partly used as a store. 1857. Rock-faced
stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched patterned slate
roofs. Gothic Revival style. Plinth, short gabled angle
buttresses, coped gables with kneelers and crosses. Central
tower entrance with bell turret and spire, flanked by chapels
with side porches.
Square tower, 2 stages, has small flanking buttresses and
chamfered string courses at each stage. Ground stage has
moulded segmental pointed archway with hoodmould and stops,
and above it, 2 small lancets. At the rear, a shouldered
window. Under the arch, on either side, a pointed-arched
double door with moulded surround. Blind second stage has
stepped diagonal buttresses topped with crocketed pinnacles.
Octagonal bell turret has stepped base and 8 closely spaced
lancet bell openings with stone tracery, separated by thin
buttresses, under steep gables with finials. Plain octagonal
spire with finial and cross.
Chapels front and rear gables each have a 3-light pointed arch
window with varying Decorated tracery, hoodmoulds and stops.
Outer sides have, towards the rear, two 2-light pointed arch
windows with tracery, hoodmoulds and stops. Between them, a
stepped buttress. Towards the front, a steeply gabled porch
with a pointed-arched doorway, hoodmould and stops. On either
side, a single lancet. Chapel inner sides have similar double
lancets with a buttress between them. East chapel has an
external side wall stack.
INTERIOR: functional east chapel has rendered interior with
arch braced roof. At the front, a stone reading desk. To its
right, a large tablet with crocketed gable. At the rear,
double doors on each side. Plain benches set lengthwise.
(Information from Cemetery Records).

Listing NGR: SK5414358938

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569047

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