Bede Lodge

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE REDHILLS LANE NZ 24 SE (South side)

4/385 Bede Lodge 10/7/81 GV II

Cemetery lodge and chapel, now house. Dated 1867 on left return lintel. Chapel of coursed rubble with ashlar plinth and dressings, lodge rendered with ashlar dressings; roofs of graduated dark slates with flat stone gable copings; rendered chimneys. L-plan. Chapel has one storey, one bay and 3 in return. Gabled front has wide 2-centred arch containing inserted boarded doors; cusped canopied niche above has statue of bearded saint, book in left hand and right hand broken off (possibly St. Cuthbert holding head of St. Oswald); roll-moulded gablets on gable coping and carved cross finial. Steeply-pitched roof. 3 small lancets in returns, one cusped and brought from the C13 Harbour House chapel, Framwellgate Moor. Right return has rear square turret with pyramidal roof; trefoil ventilators on each side.

Interior: painted plaster with ashlar dressings; scissor-braced roof.

Lodge of one storey and attics, 3 bays has door under flat stone lintel to left of chapel and painted boarded section in first bay. Right return, continuous with chapel, has 2 ground-floor sashes with blind tympana over Carnarvon heads, and one in gable peak with shouldered lintel.

Later left extension of one storey, 2 bays.

Listing NGR: NZ2648042424