Northernmost 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. 3 related planning applications.
Northernmost Chapel at Wombwell Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-alcove-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Barnsley South MP: Stephanie Peacock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1985
- Type
- Mortuary chapel
- Address
- Northernmost Chapel at Wombwell Cemetery, Cemetery Road, S73 8HY
- OS grid reference
- SE 396 031
- Coordinates
- 53.5236, -1.4041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The northernmost chapel at Wombwell Cemetery, built around 1868 by Thomas Dobb of Rotherham, is currently used as a store. It features thinly-coursed sandstone with contrasting dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The chapel is a single-cell structure with a corner spire, designed in a High Victorian style. Notable architectural elements include polychromatic relieving arches and carved bands. The building has a battered plinth with a chamfered band and a gable entry front that includes a moulded, pointed doorway with colonnettes (all restored) and a circular window above with foiled openings set in a sunken ashlar panel. The ashlar gable copings are adorned with stepped kneelers.
To the right, the spire has a square, buttressed base leading to an octagonal turret featuring slit windows, carved bands, and lucarnes. Each side of the turret has a cusped blind opening beneath grotesques. The tapered spire is topped with more grotesques beneath an ashlar top. At the rear, there is a 4-light window beneath a pierced circular panel. The returns feature two 2-light windows flanked by single lights, with a pierced circular window beneath a central gablet; these windows have been bricked up. The roof is decorated with cut-slate. The architect was mentioned in the Barnsley Chronicle on August 8, 1867, with a cutting available in the Barnsley Local History Library.
Local climate
Northernmost Chapel at Wombwell Cemetery receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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