Cemetery Chapel

NZ0516NW 770-1/4/228

BARNARD CASTLE VICTORIA ROAD (south side) Cemetery Chapel

(Formerly Listed as: VICTORIA ROAD (South side) Mortuary Chapel)

29/11/93

GV II Cemetery Chapel.1859. By FRN Haswell. Snecked stone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; roof and spire of graduated Lakeland slate with bands of grey and green diaper patterns and stone gable coping. Early English style. Nave and sanctuary with north porch, north-west belfry, south vestry.

EXTERIOR: polygonal apse has three tall lancets breaking eaves under gablets; sill-string to two north lancets, south lancets, and stepped under three west lancets. North porch has nook-shafts to roll-moulded pointed arch recessed under chamfered arch with drip-string extending to coping of clasping buttresses' vent slit in high gable. Steeply-pitched roof hipped at east and gabled at west, with truncated central ventilator, and stone cross finial to west. Bell tower in north-west angle of porch and nave has blind arcade in low first stage flanked by clasping buttresses between which rise four central buttresses to tall second stage. Paired arches in open belfry stages with nook-shafts and angle shafts; prominent gargoyles at angles of tall pyramidal roof.

INTERIOR: derelict; pews removed. Shouldered rere-arches, toggled arch to vestry, stone fireplace, medieval-style floor tiles and painted stucco with scrolls and legends. Waggon roof with scissor trusses.

Listing NGR: NZ0540316712