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Cemetery Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery (middle of three)

A Grade II Listed Building in Whitworth, Lancashire

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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

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WHITWORTH
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Cemetery Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery (middle of three)

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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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