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Latitude: 53.6673 / 53°40'2"N
Longitude: -2.1652 / 2°9'54"W
OS Eastings: 389179
OS Northings: 418988
OS Grid: SD891189
Mapcode National: GBR FVB1.13
Mapcode Global: WHB8Q.Q24Y
Plus Code: 9C5VMR8M+WW
Entry Name: Cemetery Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery (middle of three)
Listing Date: 30 November 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1361990
English Heritage Legacy ID: 185818
ID on this website: 101361990
Location: Whitworth Cemetery, Facit, Rossendale, Lancashire, OL12
County: Lancashire
District: Rossendale
Civil Parish: Whitworth
Built-Up Area: Whitworth
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Facit St John the Evangelist
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Cemetery chapel
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WHITWORTH
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Cemetery Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery (middle of three)
GV
II
Cemetery chapel, centre of matching set of three, late 1870s, designed by architects Maxwell and Tuke. Rock-faced sandstone, steeply-pitched slate roof with bands of green slates, red ridging tiles, chimney at rear gable. Nave with pinnacled steeple rising from west gable. High Victorian Gothic style. Buttressed west end has large four-light window with plate tracery rose in the head; two-stage tower has coupled belfry louvres at second stage, corner pinnacles and squat spire with gablets and lucarnes. On north and south sides are moulded Tudor-arched doorways, three recessed windows of two cusped lights in chamfered square surrounds.
Interior: red brick narthex at base of tower; arch-braced kingpost roof with curved struts.
Listing NGR: SD8917918988
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