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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1985
- Type
- Mortuary chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SE30SE WOMBWELL CEMETERY ROAD (north-west side), Wombwell
5/47 Northernmost Chapel at Wombwell Cemetery
GV II
Mortuary chapel now store. 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 (all restored): circular window above with foiled openings in sunken ashlar panel; ashlar gable copings with stepped kneelers. Spire to right: 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, windows bricked. Decorative cut-slate roof. Architect referred to in Barnsley Chronicle, 8/8/1867: cutting in Barnsley Local History Library.
Listing NGR: SE3960403155
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