Listing Text

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK85SW LONDON ROAD
619-1/4/219 (South side (off))
Cemetery Chapels

II

Cemetery chapels, now tool stores. c1870. Rockfaced stone and
brick, with limestone dressings and patterned plain tile
roofs. Decorated style. Chamfered plinth and string course,
coped gables. Symmetrical layout with central archway and bell
turret flanked by single chapels with side porches. Moulded
central archway with hood mould and imposts, flanked by single
buttresses topped with crocketed pinnacles. Over the arch, a
traceried coped gable. 2 stage bell turret has angle
buttresses to ech stage, the lower ones gabled, the upper ones
with pinnacles. 4 ogee headed crested openings to the square
bell stage. Above again, octagonal needle spire with a tier of
lucarnes. Under the arch, a brick vault with stone ribs , and
on either side a shouldered doorway. On the north side, a
memorial tablet, 1918. Chapels are connected to the entrance
arch by single bay links each with a lancet. East ends have
angle buttresses topped with pinnacles, and traceried crests
to the gables. Triple lancets, each with different tracery,
with stepped sill bands and hood moulds with stops. East
chapel window has tiny flanking niches. Above each triple
lancet, an oval window. Inside return angles have single
lancets. North and south sides have central porches with coped
gables with kneelers, and small flanking buttresses. Moulded
doorway with hood mould. Similar inner doorways. On either
side, a single lancet. West ends have angle buttresses and
plain coped gables with kneelers. Similar fenestration to east
ends. North chapel has a lancet to left of the link. Rendered
interiors have stepped sill bands to east and arch braced
double purlin roofs. Central shouldered doorways opposite the
porches.

Listing NGR: SK8057852906