Pair of Cemetery Chapels at Otley Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1988. Chapel.

Pair of Cemetery Chapels at Otley Cemetery

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Country
England
Date first listed
21 July 1988
Type
Chapel
Source
Historic England listing

Description

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CROSS GREEN (north side) Pair of Cemetery Chapels at Otley Cemetery

II

Pair of cemetery chapels. c1875. Rock-faced and ashlar sandstone, graduated Welsh slate roofs. Single-storey, gable-fronted chapels linked by archway under two-stage tower with spire. Gothic Revival style with geometrical tracery. Central tower has quoined side buttresses and moulded pointed arch rising from corbelled shafts; hoodmould with head-carved stops. Offset belfry stage with two cusped and louvred windows linked by hoodmould; broach spire with lucarnes in two tiers.

Chapels to each side are linked by narrow recessed bays with single-light windows under hoodmoulds. Each chapel has chamfered plinth, quoins, offset angle buttresses and large four-light window with cusped and foiled head under hoodmould; shaped kneelers and gable copings. Side doorways beneath tower have moulded arches with hoodmoulds. Opposed side doorways are similar but set in gabled projections. Two-light windows to each side; cusped and foiled gable openings to rear.

Interior: chapel on right has fitted pews and arch-braced roof on corbels; left chapel similar but now used as store.

Listing NGR: SE2087745877

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