Heckmondwike Cemetery Chapels is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1984. Chapels.

Heckmondwike Cemetery Chapels

WRENN ID
endless-gateway-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Spen Valley MP: Kim Leadbeater (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 January 1984
Type
Chapels
Address
Heckmondwike Cemetery Chapels, Cemetery Road
OS grid reference
SE 218 241
Coordinates
53.71294, -1.67106
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Heckmondwike Cemetery Chapels are Church of England and Non-Conformist chapels, built around 1860, and currently used for storage. They are constructed from dressed stone and feature steeply pitched slate roofs with chamfered gable copings. The two chapels are identical and are connected by a central arched carriageway, which is topped by a square and octagonal tower with a slender stone spire. Each chapel has diagonal buttressing and a porch. The east and west windows are identical, consisting of three lights with cusped and foiled intersecting tracery, along with a hood mould that has figurehead stops. The tower is also buttressed and includes a quatrefoil on the first tier, with slender traceried windows with gabled heads on all four sides of the second tier.

Local climate

Heckmondwike Cemetery Chapels receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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