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Western Mortuary Chapel at Lancaster Cemetery

A Grade II Listed Building in Bulk, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.0505 / 54°3'1"N

Longitude: -2.7776 / 2°46'39"W

OS Eastings: 349188

OS Northings: 461899

OS Grid: SD491618

Mapcode National: GBR 9P1L.GR

Mapcode Global: WH847.9GL4

Plus Code: 9C6V362C+6X

Entry Name: Western Mortuary Chapel at Lancaster Cemetery

Listing Date: 13 March 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1298305

English Heritage Legacy ID: 383288

ID on this website: 101298305

Location: Lancaster Cemetery, Freehold, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1

County: Lancashire

District: Lancaster

Electoral Ward/Division: Bulk

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Lancaster Christ Church

Church of England Diocese: Blackburn

Tagged with: Gothic Revival Cemetery chapel

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Description



LANCASTER

SD46SE QUERNMORE ROAD
1685-1/1/349 (North side (off))
Western mortuary chapel at Lancaster
Cemetery

GV II

One of a group of 3 mortuary chapels (qv) built to serve
Lancaster Cemetery, which was opened in 1855; for Anglicans.
By Edward Paley. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar
dressings and slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. Cruciform
plan, with entrance porch facing east.
The chapel has angle buttresses, coped gables, and a
continuous string course at window sill level. The north and
south windows are triple stepped lancets with shafts and
hoodmoulds. The west gable has a wheel window. The porch has
arcaded openings in its north and south walls, each of 4
chamfered lancet arches with limestone shafts which have
foliated capitals. The outer porch doorways are moulded and
pointed with the inner orders carried on foliated corbels. The
porch gable has a poppy head finial at its apex, and the main
gable above has a cross finial.


Listing NGR: SD4918861899

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