Description

GRIMSBY

TA2607SE SCARTHO ROAD
699-1/39/58 (East side)
09/02/98 Municipal Cemetery Chapel

GV II

Cemetery chapels. 1888 by EW Farebrother of Grimsby; J
Thompson, builder, for Grimsby Corporation Cemetery Committee.
Red brick in English bond with sandstone dressings. Green
slate roof.
STYLE: Gothic Revival.
PLAN: H-shaped: central carriage archway with tower over,
flanked by passages to a chapel on the north and south side.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, angle buttresses with moulded
offsets and gabled caps, sill string courses. Central tower
has 3 main stages. First stage has buttresses flanking an
ashlar section with a tall pointed moulded arch with banded
nook shafts, hoodmould with head-stops, elaborately-carved
spandrels with scrolled foliage in relief. Stepped-in second
stage has quoins with angle-shafts, quadruple lancets to each
side with shafted reveals. Ashlar Lombardy frieze, coped
parapet with octagonal angle-turrets supporting flying
buttresses to octagonal third belfry stage which has
angleshafts and pointed arched panels with louvred lancet
bell-openings to alternate faces. Broad ashlar frieze with
diaper-work and paterae. Octagonal spire of banded brick and
ashlar, with 4 miniature lucarnes and finial.
Central entrance passage has brick quadripartite vault with
stone ribs and central roundel; pointed moulded inner arches
to chapel entrance passages flanked by narrow blind arches.
Passages to chapels have pairs of twin lancets.
West side of each chapel has foundation stones, that to north
chapel recording date 5 November 1888, and that to south
chapel recording architect and builder. Above this, west side
of each chapel has stepped lancets with nook shafts,
hoodmoulds and carved stops; flush ashlar bands, miniature
blind stepped lancet at apex of gable; coped gable with shaped
kneelers and cross finial. North and south sides of chapels
have triple lancets. East sides have half-octagonal apses,
each with 3 pointed 2-light traceried windows.
North and south sides have triple lancets and vestries, each
with an arched door to the east side and a projecting
gable-stack with offsets and a tall chimney shaft with quoins
and corniced cap. South vestry has an inserted garage door in
south gable-end. Crested ridge-tiles throughout.
INTERIOR: chapels each have pointed moulded sanctuary arch on

octagonal responds, pointed arched door to vestry,
stained-glass windows in sanctuaries with figures of saints,
arch-braced roof carried on foliate corbels. South chapel now
used as a store.
Forms part of a group with the Municipal Cemetery gateway and
lodge (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 339; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.65; Grimsby Borough
Planning Department: Scartho Road Cemetery Leaflets: Grimsby
Borough Council: 1994-).

Listing NGR: TA2680307231

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660099

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