South Chapel Church of England at Dewsbury Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1996. Chapel.
South Chapel Church of England at Dewsbury Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- plain-jamb-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1996
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- South Chapel Church of England at Dewsbury Cemetery, Temple Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 232 211
- Coordinates
- 53.68602, -1.64917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South Chapel (Church of England) at Dewsbury Cemetery is a cemetery chapel built in 1859, designed by Jeremiah Marriott & Son. It is constructed of ashlar with ashlar dressings and features a graduated slate roof with coped gables, cross finials, and ornate ridge tiles. The chapel has a rock-faced plinth, a moulded cill band, and diagonal buttresses with set-offs. It has a cruciform plan and is a single storey.
The eastern entrance front includes a projecting gabled porch with a pointed arch doorway that has a moulded surround with shafts and a hood mould. Above the doorway is a small deeply chamfered triangular opening with a cusped circular window and a hood mould. On either side of the porch are single lancet windows. The gabled north and south fronts each have a single three-light pointed arch window with reticulated tracery and hood moulds. At the rear, a projecting gabled wing features single two-light pointed arch windows with reticulated tracery and a tall octagonal stone stack. This chapel is part of a well-preserved group of listed buildings within Dewsbury Cemetery.
Local climate
South Chapel Church of England at Dewsbury Cemetery receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% 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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