Description

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ22NW SOUTH CHURCH ROAD 634-1/5/115 (East side (off)) Bishop Auckland Cemetery chapel

GV II

Municipal cemetery chapel. Dated 1884. MATERIALS: coursed squared stone with ashlar plinth, dressings and graduated Lakeland slate roof. Nave with east apse, and west porch with spire. EXTERIOR: Gothic Revival style. 3-bay nave has trefoil heads and quatrefoil top light to traceried windows on sloping sill band. Bays defined by buttresses with 2 offsets. Polygonal apse has lancets and high hipped roof. Porch has high pointed open arches on 3 sides, with high gable over west. Angle buttresses and 3 short offset stages all with sloped coping. 3rd offset has pinnacled corners and is broached to octagonal base of belfry. Belfry stage has 8 tall gabled arches, and high octagonal stone spire with wind vane finial. Gables have gablets on kneelers, and moulded finials.

Listing NGR: NZ2153229337

External Links

• Wikidata Q26580075

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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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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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas