Bishop Auckland Cemetery Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1994. Chapel.
Bishop Auckland Cemetery Chapel
- WRENN ID
- former-brass-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1994
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Bishop Auckland Cemetery Chapel, South Church Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 215 293
- Coordinates
- 54.65868, -1.66776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bishop Auckland Cemetery Chapel is a municipal cemetery chapel built in 1884. It is constructed from coursed squared stone with an ashlar plinth, decorative dressings, and a graduated Lakeland slate roof. The chapel features a nave with an east apse and a west porch topped with a spire, all designed in the Gothic Revival style.
The three-bay nave is distinguished by windows with trefoil heads and quatrefoil top lights set into a sloping sill band. Each bay is marked by buttresses that have two offsets. The polygonal apse includes lancet windows and a high hipped roof. The porch is notable for its high pointed open arches on three sides, with a prominent gable above the west entrance. The angle buttresses have three short offset stages, all featuring sloped coping. The third offset is adorned with pinnacled corners and transitions into the octagonal base of the belfry. The belfry stage is characterized by eight tall gabled arches and is topped with a high octagonal stone spire that has a wind vane finial. The gables are enhanced with gablets on the kneelers and moulded finials.
Local climate
Bishop Auckland Cemetery Chapel receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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