East Cemetery Entrance Screen and Chapel Spire is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Cemetery. 1 related planning application.
East Cemetery Entrance Screen and Chapel Spire
- WRENN ID
- far-loft-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cemetery
- Address
- East Cemetery Entrance Screen and Chapel Spire, Links Road, Amble by the Sea
- OS grid reference
- NU 273 044
- Coordinates
- 55.33327, -1.56975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The East Cemetery entrance screen and chapel spire, built in 1878, served as the entrance to former twin mortuary chapels, which were demolished in 1971. The structure features rock-faced quadrant walls and a squared stone porch and spire, with cut dressings and cast iron gates. The design of the porch and spire is in a free late 13th-century style.
The entrance is marked by square gate piers that have chamfered plinths and moulded pyramidal caps, supporting double gates with shaped rails and moulded pyramid-topped bars and dogbars. The low serpentine quadrant walls are topped with arched coping. The porch includes a moulded arch with a string-course above, a quatrefoil panel, and a slatted belfry opening with a raised surround in a gabled half dormer at the base of the slender octagonal spire, which features two moulded rings. The side walls are supported by low diagonal buttresses and are swept back to the base of the spire.
This structure is a picturesque local landmark.
Local climate
East Cemetery Entrance Screen and Chapel Spire receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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