Cemetery Chapel in South Cave Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1993. Cemetery chapel.
Cemetery Chapel in South Cave Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- far-stair-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Goole and Pocklington MP: David Davis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1993
- Type
- Cemetery chapel
- Address
- Cemetery Chapel in South Cave Cemetery, Station Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 920 319
- Coordinates
- 53.77553, -0.60491
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cemetery Chapel in South Cave Cemetery, built between 1873 and 1874, is a Grade II listed building. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with red brick and ashlar dressings, topped with a red fishscale tile roof featuring moulded ridge tiles and a cross finial. The chapel has a single cell apsidal plan and includes a double chamfered brick plinth, angle buttresses with set-offs, cill and impost brick bands, and decorated brick eaves.
The west front features a large three-light pointed arch window with ashlar geometrical tracery, above which are two ashlar corbels supporting a tall gabled bellcote with a pointed arch opening. The north front has a central projecting gabled porch with a double chamfered pointed arch doorway and plank doors, flanked by two single two-light pointed arch windows with ashlar geometrical tracery. The apsidal east front contains three similar single windows, with buttresses between them. The south front includes a projecting gabled porch on the left with a double chamfered brick entrance arch, and to the right, there are two single two-light pointed arch windows with ashlar geometrical tracery.
Local climate
Cemetery Chapel in South Cave Cemetery sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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