Mausoleum/Mortuary Chapel 90 Metres North Of Yew Trees is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Mausoleum/mortuary chapel.
Mausoleum/Mortuary Chapel 90 Metres North Of Yew Trees
- WRENN ID
- floating-balcony-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Mausoleum/mortuary chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
LARTINGTON LARTINGTON LANE NZ 0217 (North side, off) 32/96 Mausoleum/Mortuary Chapel, 90 metres north of Yew Trees II Small mausoleum/mortuary chapel. Dated 1877 on keystone. Built for Monsignor Thomas Witham of Lartington Hall. Rock-faced masonry with leaded roofs. Square, single-cell plan.
Stepped clasping buttresses. Pair of 3-panel doors in splayed round-arched doorway with roll-moulded hoodmould and projecting keystone inscribed: TW 1877. Doorway-flanked by stepped pilasters partly cut away to accommodate red sandstone colonnettes. Pilasters crowned by statuettes of St. Peter (to left) and St. Paul (to right). Raised cross above keystone. Wood eaves cornice. Low-pitched hipped roof surmounted by glazed, square-plan lantern with leaded pyramidal roof. Slightly-projecting rear bay has 3 stepped round-headed lancets.
Caen-stone-lined interior has carvings by Messrs. Priestman and Sons of Darlington.
Of interest as a mortuary chapel in a private Catholic cemetery.
Listing NGR: NZ0205217860
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