South Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Cemetery chapel.
South Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- stark-quoin-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- Cemetery chapel
- Address
- South Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery, Edward Street, OL12 8LE
- OS grid reference
- SD 891 189
- Coordinates
- 53.66715, -2.16528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery is a cemetery chapel built in the late 1870s, designed by architects Maxwell and Tuke. It is part of a matching set of three chapels. The structure is made of rock-faced sandstone and features a slate roof with bands of green slates and red ridging tiles. There is a gabled dormer window on the south side and a ridge chimney. The chapel has a T-plan layout, consisting of a small nave with a north transept, and is designed in the High Victorian Gothic style. The west gable includes seven lancet windows, a decorative band, and a plate-traceried rose window above.
The interior has not been inspected, but it likely features an arch-braced kingpost roof with curved struts, similar to the other two chapels in the set.
Local climate
South Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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