Cemetery Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery (middle of three) is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Chapel.
Cemetery Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery (middle of three)
- WRENN ID
- ruined-tracery-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/03/2019
SD 81 NE 11/239
WHITWORTH EDWARD STREET (off) Cemetery Chapel at Whitworth Cemetery (middle of three)
GV II Cemetery chapel, centre of matching set of three, late 1870s, designed by architects Maxwell and Tuke. Rock-faced sandstone, steeply-pitched slate roof with bands of green slates, red ridging tiles, chimney at rear gable. Nave with pinnacled steeple rising from west gable. High Victorian Gothic style. Buttressed west end has large four-light window with plate tracery rose in the head; two-stage tower has coupled belfry louvres at second stage, corner pinnacles and squat spire with gablets and lucarnes. On north and south sides are moulded Tudor-arched doorways, three recessed windows of two cusped lights in chamfered square surrounds.
Interior: red brick narthex at base of tower; arch-braced kingpost roof with curved struts.
Listing NGR: SD8917918988
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