Western Mortuary Chapel At Lancaster Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1995. Chapel.
Western Mortuary Chapel At Lancaster Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- burning-jade-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1995
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
LANCASTER
SD46SE QUERNMORE ROAD 1685-1/1/349 (North side (off)) Western mortuary chapel at Lancaster Cemetery
GV II
One of a group of 3 mortuary chapels (qv) built to serve Lancaster Cemetery, which was opened in 1855; for Anglicans. By Edward Paley. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. Cruciform plan, with entrance porch facing east. The chapel has angle buttresses, coped gables, and a continuous string course at window sill level. The north and south windows are triple stepped lancets with shafts and hoodmoulds. The west gable has a wheel window. The porch has arcaded openings in its north and south walls, each of 4 chamfered lancet arches with limestone shafts which have foliated capitals. The outer porch doorways are moulded and pointed with the inner orders carried on foliated corbels. The porch gable has a poppy head finial at its apex, and the main gable above has a cross finial.
Listing NGR: SD4918861899
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