Eastern 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. 1 related planning application.
Eastern Mortuary Chapel at Lancaster Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- hushed-barrel-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1995
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Eastern Mortuary Chapel at Lancaster Cemetery, Quernmore Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 492 618
- Coordinates
- 54.05028, -2.77617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Eastern Mortuary Chapel at Lancaster Cemetery is a Grade II listed building, part of a group of three chapels designed for Nonconformists and built by Edward Paley when the cemetery opened in 1855. Constructed from coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and topped with a slate roof, the chapel is designed in the Gothic Revival style and features a cruciform plan with a west-facing entrance porch.
Architectural details include angle buttresses, coped gables, and a continuous string course at window sill level. The north and south sides have triple stepped lancet windows with shafts and hoodmoulds, while the east gable showcases a wheel window. The porch is notable for its arcaded openings on the north and south walls, each consisting of four chamfered lancet arches supported by limestone shafts with foliated capitals. The outer porch doorway is moulded and pointed, with inner orders resting on foliated corbels. The porch gable is topped with a poppy head finial, and the main gable features a cross finial at its apex.
Local climate
Eastern Mortuary Chapel at Lancaster Cemetery sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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