Southernmost Chapel At Wombwell Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1985. Mortuary chapel.
Southernmost Chapel At Wombwell Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- roaming-quartz-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1985
- Type
- Mortuary chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SE30SE WOMBWELL CEMETERY ROAD (north-west side), Wombwell
5/46 Southernmost Chapel at Wombwell Cemetery
GV II
Mortuary chapel. c1868. By Thomas Dobb of Rotherham. Thinly- coursed sandstone with some contrasting dressings, Welsh slate roof. Single-cell with corner spire. High Victorian style; polychromatic relieving arches, carved and contrasting bands. Battered plinth with chamfered band. Gable-entry front: moulded, pointed doorway with colonnettes; circular window above with foiled openings to sunken ashlar panel; ashlar gable copings with stepped kneelers. Spire to left: square, buttressed base to octagonal turret with slit windows, carved bands and lucarnes. Cusped blind opening to each side beneath grotesques. Tapered spire with more grotesques beneath ashlar top. Rear: 4-light window beneath pierced circular panel. Returns: two 2-light windows flanked by single lights, pierced circular window beneath central gablet. Decorative cut-slate roof, leaded flhche base to ridge. Occasionally used for burial services; some windows boarded and in poor repair. Architect referred to in Barnsley Chronicle, 8/8/1867: cutting in Barnsley Local History Library.
Listing NGR: SE3959203132
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