Cemetery Office, Dukinfield Cemetery

DUKINFIELD, HALL GREEN ROAD SJ 99 SW 1033-/3/10009

Cemetery office, Dukinfield Cemetery

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Cemetery office. Circa 1865, with minor C20 alterations. By Paull and Aycliffe, architects, of Manchester. Evenly coursed, squared rubble gritstone, with ashlar dressings and wall bands, coped gables, single side wall stack without pots and a Welsh-slated roof covering. 'L' plan, with service ranges to rear, and entrance tower in the angle of the two principal ranges. Entrance front with steeply-pitched gable to left, rising from a shallow ashlar plinth. Tall 4-light mullion and transom window, with cusped heads to lights. 2-light window to first floor beneath steeply pointed relieving arch. To the right, narrow 3-stage helm entrance tower with arched doorway, first floor window with ashlar bell canopy above, below a string course. Above, small coupled lancets, and a clock face in the helm gable apex. Lower 2-storey gable to crosswing to right, with 3 and 2-light windows. Single-storey service ranges to rear enclose a narrow yard. The office and the chapel and crematorium (q.v.) may be seen together in the same vista, and are visually associated.

Listing NGR: SJ9441698130