Pair of Cemetery Chapels is a Grade II listed building in the Halton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Pair of Cemetery Chapels
- WRENN ID
- rusted-terrace-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Widnes and Halewood MP: Derek Twigg (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Pair of Cemetery Chapels, Birchfield Road, WA8 9EE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 511 873
- Coordinates
- 53.38094, -2.73588
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This pair of cemetery chapels was built in 1897 and is constructed from rock-faced red sandstone, forming an H shape with cross wings and a central tower. The roof is slate with a ridge of red crested tiles, and the tower features a stone octagonal steeple. The building has a projecting plinth and ashlar corner buttresses. The main windows are designed in the Decorated style, while the tower and secondary windows are lancet-shaped. There are labels above the doors and windows, and the chapels contain a significant amount of stained glass. The entrance to the central tower has a modern glazed door with a Gothic arch filled with reeded strips, and the side doors are oak boarded with imitation strap hinges. At the back of the cross wings, there are octagonal apses topped with pyramid roofs and a modern wall that fills the space between the apse projections. A crematorium has been added within the building, but this has not affected its original character.
Local climate
Pair of Cemetery Chapels 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 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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