Cemetery Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1993. Chapel. 1 related planning application.

Cemetery Chapel

WRENN ID
swift-latch-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Country
England
Date first listed
29 November 1993
Type
Chapel
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cemetery Chapel, built in 1859 by FRN Haswell, is located on the south side of Victoria Road in Barnard Castle. This building is constructed from snecked stone with an ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings. Its roof and spire are made of graduated Lakeland slate, featuring bands of grey and green diaper patterns and stone gable coping, reflecting an Early English style. The chapel includes a nave and sanctuary, with a north porch, a north-west belfry, and a south vestry.

The exterior features a polygonal apse with three tall lancets that break the eaves beneath gablets. There is a sill-string running beneath the two north lancets, the south lancets, and stepping under the three west lancets. The north porch has nook-shafts supporting a roll-moulded pointed arch, which is recessed under a chamfered arch with a drip-string that extends to the coping of the clasping buttresses. The steeply-pitched roof is hipped at the east and gabled at the west, topped with a truncated central ventilator and a stone cross finial on the west. The bell tower, located in the north-west angle of the porch and nave, has a blind arcade on its low first stage, flanked by clasping buttresses. Four central buttresses rise to a tall second stage, featuring paired arches in the open belfry stages with nook-shafts and angle shafts, and prominent gargoyles at the angles of the tall pyramidal roof.

The interior is currently derelict, with pews removed. It features shouldered rere-arches, a toggled arch leading to the vestry, a stone fireplace, medieval-style floor tiles, and painted stucco adorned with scrolls and legends. The roof is a waggon type with scissor trusses.

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