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
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Mausoleum/mortuary chapel
- OS grid reference
- NZ 020 178
- Coordinates
- 54.55599, -1.96979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This small mausoleum or mortuary chapel, dated 1877, is located 90 metres north of Yew Trees in Lartington. It was built for Monsignor Thomas Witham of Lartington Hall. The structure features rock-faced masonry and leaded roofs, with a square, single-cell plan.
The exterior includes stepped clasping buttresses and a pair of 3-panel doors set in a splayed round-arched doorway. This doorway has a roll-moulded hoodmould and a projecting keystone inscribed with "TW 1877." The doorway is flanked by stepped pilasters that have been partly cut away to accommodate red sandstone colonnettes. These pilasters are topped with statuettes of St. Peter on the left and St. Paul on the right, with a raised cross positioned above the keystone. The building has a wood eaves cornice and a low-pitched hipped roof, which is topped by a glazed lantern with a leaded pyramidal roof. At the rear, there is a slightly projecting bay that features three stepped round-headed lancets.
Inside, the walls are lined with Caen stone and include carvings by Messrs. Priestman and Sons of Darlington. This chapel is significant as a mortuary chapel within a private Catholic cemetery.
Local climate
Mausoleum/Mortuary Chapel 90 Metres North of Yew Trees sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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