Cemetery Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Blackpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1998. Church.

Cemetery Chapel

WRENN ID
white-belfry-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Blackpool
Constituency
Blackpool South MP: Chris Webb (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1998
Type
Church
Address
Cemetery Chapel, Layton Road
OS grid reference
SD 320 373
Coordinates
53.82797, -3.03326
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cemetery Chapel is a mortuary chapel built in the 19th century, featuring a single tall storey divided into three bays. At the center is a three-stepped-stage tower, with the lower stage serving as an entrance porch. The entrance consists of tall pointed plank doors set within a pointed, double-chambered surround that has a hoodmould. The tower is flanked by stepped off-set buttresses at the lower stage, which frame the entrance, and the returns have a plinth with stepped copings interrupted by a lancet light.

The second stage of the tower has a slit window on each side within a rectangular recess. The third stage is octagonal and features trefoil-headed belfry windows. The octagonal spire has a splayed base and lucarnes, topped with a cross at the apex. On either side of the tower, there are four-centred arched windows.

At the rear, there is a porch to the left that includes a pointed plank door with a chamfered surround and a hoodmould, along with off-set buttresses at the angles and a cross at the apex. The rest of the rear has two four-centre-arched windows. The right return features a continuous sill band and a wide pointed-arched window with a hoodmould and facestops, while the left return has a stepped three-light window. All windows are currently boarded over. The roof has two triangular lucarnes on each side, coped gable ends, crosses at the apexes, and decorative ridge tiles. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Cemetery Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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