Description

TIVERTON

SS9513 PARK ROAD, Tiverton
848-1/5/242 (East side)
Mortuary chapel in Tiverton Cemetery

GV II

Mortuary chapel. 1855 by GA Boyce of Tiverton. Squared
purple-red stone rubble with Bath stone dressings. Slated
roof. Anglo-Norman style.
EXTERIOR: nave has 3 single light, round-headed windows on
each side, with 3 more on the apse. Flat buttresses between
and flanking the windows. At west end a round-arched doorway
with attached columns; double plank doors, studded and with
ornate iron strap-hinges. Above it a similar, single light
window. Stone cross on gable. On eastern gable the base of a
former stone bell turret. Gutters carried on stone corbel
tables carved with grotesque heads.
INTERIOR: has simple wooden pews at either side of a centre
aisle, the pew-ends carved with quatrefoils. Wooden alter with
trefoil-headed panels. Dado of upright planking. Arch-braced
roof, the feet of the braces resting on moulded stone corbels.
There may be patterned tiles under the fitted carpets.
The chapel contains an old wooden coffin-carriage with iron
wheels having solid rubber tyres. Brass maker's plate:
DOTTRIDGE BROS. LTD. DORSET WORKS. EAST ROAD, LONDON, N. this
was one of 2 chapels built by the Burial Board for the Parish
of Tiverton `according to the plans and drawings relating
thereto prepared by Mr Gideon Acland Boyce, the Architect to
the said Burial Board'; that for the nonconformists has been
demolished, that for the Church of England survives.
HISTORY: Boyce's drawing for the nonconformist chapel
(identical to the surviving one) is preserved in the devon
Record Office. It was approved in August 1855 and was to be
finished, along with the other chapel, lodge and entrance
gates, by 1 August 1856. Plans for re-seating both chapels
were prepared by William Rowe of Tiverton in 1891, this being
done, and the floors laid with decorative tiles, by 1892.

Listing NGR: SS9568213524

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664691

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