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
- Constituency
- Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1988
- Type
- Chapel
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Northern chapel at Ilkley cemetery, Cemetery Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 122 483
- Coordinates
- 53.93098, -1.8145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The northern chapel at Ilkley cemetery is a disused municipal cemetery chapel built around 1880. It is constructed of coursed sandstone with gritstone dressings and features a plain and shaped green slate roof. The chapel is one storey high and consists of three by one bays, with a gable entrance loggia on the right side of a square bell tower. It includes a north vestibule and a small west apse. Designed in the Gothic Revival style with a Romanesque loggia, the loggia has trabeated openings divided by red sandstone columns with foliated capitals. Within the loggia is a quoined, pointed arched doorway, and the hipped roof abuts the tower.
The tower features a pointed arched sill and dripstone, with quoined front and side gables leading to an ashlar roof. From this roof rises the circular base of a hexagonal spire supported by a colonnade. The chapel has a cinquefoil gable window, and the left return displays offset buttresses between two-light windows that are cusped and foiled under pointed arches with hoodmoulds. The north vestibule contains a shouldered doorhead and square-headed windows, with a stack rising from the main eaves above. The semi-circular apse is illuminated by three cusped lancets. The main roof is adorned with shaped kneelers, ashlar gabled copings, terracotta ridge tiles, and apex crosses. The interior was not inspected, but the chapel is noted for its non-conformist architectural flair.
Local climate
Northern chapel at Ilkley cemetery sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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