Description

LOWER BRISTOL ROAD
(South side)

Cemetery Chapel
of Widcombe,
Lyncombe and
St James's Cemetery
05/08/75

GV II

Pair of cemetery chapels. 1861-1862, by CE Davis.
MATERIALS: Lias with limestone ashlar dressings, plain tile roof.
PLAN: Ornate pair of apsidal chapels, each with small transeptal chapels, joined on their main axes by two-bay open port cochere, crowed by remains of fleche. Group is strictly symmetrical, on east-west axis.
STYLE: French Flamboyant style.
EXTERIOR: Each chapel has octagonal apse, with five high coped gables on two-light traceried windows, and two stage square buttresses, balancing chapels have lower ridges, clasping square buttresses, with three-light traceried windows, all with moulded drip courses. North side each chapel has pointed plank door with strap hinges to apsidal side. Short naves in two-bays, with two small two-light traceried windows to flat segmental heads. Above nave bays are quatrefoil pierced parapets, and high plinth with double offset continues round whole unit. Lower level is transverse gabled roof of porte-cochere, with two high moulded pointed arches on shafts, with square buttresses to gabled and crocketed heads, central buttress carried up to base of central cruciform fleche, cropped at level part way up former pinnacles. Open porches each have simple quadripartite ribbed vault, giving to inner porch with plank door on strap hinges, pointed arch below fleche in wall between two halves. Each side of arches has single small bay to porches with square light having reticulated tracery. Ten original cast iron downpipes and hopperheads each side of building, and lead spouts to apsidal valleys. Each apse has delicate wrought iron terminal feature.
INTERIORS: Stripped of most fittings. Walls unplastered, with heavy double chamfered `chancel arch' on shafts with capitals, to scissor rafters roofs. Chapels are enclosed by timber screens. Fully detailed Gothic Revival chapels.

Listing NGR: ST7412364562

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26674128

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)