Cemetery Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1999. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Cemetery Chapel
- WRENN ID
- proud-facade-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1999
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Cemetery Chapel, Tabley Road, Knutsford, WA16 0EW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 736 795
- Coordinates
- 53.31189, -2.39736
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cemetery chapel, built in 1901 by Robert J McBeath, is an octagonal structure featuring random rusticated rubble with pink ashlar dressings and a red plain tiled roof. It has rectangular gables on three sides and a tower at the east that serves as the entrance porch. The tower has a battered base with clasping buttresses and a battered octagonal upper stage topped with a spirelet, which is set behind a parapet and features a timber lantern. The lower stage of the tower includes a 2-light plate traceried window and a string course adorned with gargoyles. The doorway at the base of the tower is framed by a moulded and chamfered archway, leading to cast-iron gates. The tower is complemented by a high, buttressed gable to the west, and all three gables showcase plate traceried windows, while the main walls of the chapel feature rose windows and a scalloped eaves cornice. The interior has not been inspected, but the design is noted as inventive and original.
Local climate
Cemetery Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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