Mortuary Gateway and Chapels in Hebburn Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the South Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1985. Mortuary chapel.
Mortuary Gateway and Chapels in Hebburn Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- fallow-lead-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Tyneside
- Constituency
- Jarrow and Gateshead East MP: Kate Osborne (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1985
- Type
- Mortuary chapel
- Address
- Mortuary Gateway and Chapels in Hebburn Cemetery, Victoria Road West
- OS grid reference
- NZ 308 638
- Coordinates
- 54.96831, -1.51928
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The mortuary gateway and chapels in Hebburn Cemetery were built in 1890 by Frederick West, who served as the surveyor to the Hedworth, Monkton and Jarrow Burial Board. This linked pair of chapels is constructed from snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a roof made of Welsh slate. Designed in the Early English style, the structure has an H-shaped plan.
A tower with a tall stone spire sits above the carriage arch, which includes narrow lancets on the first stage and open two-light windows on the second stage. The arch contains doors leading to corridors with three windows that connect to the chapels. The east elevations showcase three tall cusped lancets, with the central one featuring flowing tracery, hood moulds with flower stops, and buttresses along with angle buttresses that have gablets and coping at the set-backs. The corridor roof has a red-tiled ridge, while the chapel roofs are high-pitched with stone gable coping and two ashlar chimneys.
Local climate
Mortuary Gateway and Chapels in Hebburn Cemetery receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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