Former Roman Catholic Cemetery Chapel

SOUTHPORT

SD31NW DUKE STREET 664-1/1/32 (North East side) Former Roman Catholic Cemetery Chapel

GV II

Cemetery chapel, now disused. Probably 1865. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, steeply-pitched slate roof with bands of blue, green and purple slate. STYLE: Early English style. PLAN: small building on north-south axis, with east porch, 3-sided north apse, and west wing (probably vestry). EXTERIOR: the gabled porch, off-set north of centre, has angle buttresses, stepped gable coping (the upper portion dislodged and lying loose on the ground), a segmental-pointed outer archway with double-chamfered surround and a dripmould, and a similarly arched inner doorway. Left of the porch is a small segmental-pointed one-light window. The south gable has a strongly stepped triple-lancet window with hoodmoulds, and gable coping with an apex cross. The apse has low buttresses, a 2-centred arched 2-light window under a gable in the centre and small arched-triangle windows in the flanking sides. On the west side is a short gabled wing with angle buttresses and a very tall gable chimney with off-sets. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with adjacent Cemetery Chapels (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3405915892