Northern chapel at Ilkley cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1988. A Victorian Chapel.

Northern chapel at Ilkley cemetery

WRENN ID
keen-tower-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1988
Type
Chapel
Period
Victorian
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SE 14 NW 4/171

CEMETERY ROAD (West Side) Northern chapel at Ilkley cemetery

II

Municipal cemetery chapel disused at time of survey. c1880. Coursed sandstone with gritstone dressings, plain and shaped green slate roof. One storey, three by one bays with gable entrance loggia on right of square bell-tower; north vestibule; small west apse. Gothic Revival style with Romanesque loggia. Loggia has trabeated openings divided by red sandstone columns with foliated capitals; quoined, pointed arched doorway within; hipped roof abuts tower.

Tower:pointed arched sill and dripstone; quoined front and side gables to ashlar roof from which rises the circular base of an hexagonal spire raised on colonnade. Chapel: cinquefoil gable window; left return has offset buttresses between cusped and foiled two light windows under pointed arches and hoodmoulds. North vestibule with shouldered doorhead and squareheaded windows; stack rises from main eaves above. Semi circular apse lit by three cusped lancets. Main roof has shaped kneelers ashlar gabled copings, terracotta ridge tiles and apex crosses. Interior not inspected. Non-conformist chapel of mirrored flair.

Listing NGR: SE1227848332

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