Chapel At Northern Cemetery

This List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30/03/2017

TA 03 SE, 680-1/4/437

KINGSTON UPON HULL, CHANTERLANDS AVENUE (West side (off)), Chapel at Northern Cemetery

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Cemetery chapel. 1912. Architect: Joseph H. Hirst, City Architect. Red brick with ashlar dressings and gabled slate and flat asphalt roofs. Polychrome banded rear wall stack. Single and two storeys; 1x3 windows. Windows are metal-framed casements with glazing bars. 2-storey main building enclosed on all sides by single-storey flat-roofed aisles, porches and toilet blocks. Main block has polychrome bands and quoins, eaves band, dentillated eaves, and dentillated open pediments to gables. Facing gable has a projecting central ashlar feature with a round-arched window flanked by pilasters under a broken segmental pediment and elongated keystone. On either side, three round-arched metal-framed glazing bar windows with corbelled sills and keystones. Rear gable has a central window with round-arched surround. Single storey ranges have string courses and moulded cornices. Front porch has a large broken segmental pediment framing a moulded panel topped with a cross. The pediment is carried by paired Doric columns flanking a pair of doors. Beyond, on either side, a single window, and a similar window in the return angle. Beyond again, projecting corner pavilions with pairs of recessed doors. Returns have two single windows. Aisles have each three single windows. Rear has blank central section flanked by projecting pavilions, each with a single door. Each return has two single windows.

INTERIOR has moulded cornice below round-arched upper windows. At the front, three round arches with square piers, the central arch with curtained catafalque, the outer arches with marble reading desks. At the rear, a gallery with two square Doric columns. On either side, each aisle bay forms a recess flanked by Doric columns. Panelled oak benches throughout.

Listing NGR: TA0719031285