Cemetery Chapels At Basford Cemetery

NOTTINGHAM

SK54SE NOTTINGHAM ROAD, Basford 646-1/4/776 (North East side) Cemetery chapels at Basford Cemetery

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Cemetery chapel, now store. 1876. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched patterned slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, buttresses, sill band, corbel table, coped gables with crosses, some missing. Pointed arched windows. Single storey; 3 bays. H-plan. Entrance bay with side corridors, flanked by chapels with eastern apses. Slightly projecting entrance bay with enriched pointed arched opening, under a gable containing a wheel window and hood mould. Above again, a truncated square turret. Under the arch, a pointed arched door each side. On each side, corridors with 3 pointed arched openings with cast-iron grilles, the centre opening taller. Chapels have west gables with granite corner shafts. 2 windows, boarded, and above, a smaller lancet, all with hood moulds. North and south sides have an off-centre cusped doorway with granite shafts and hood moulds. To west, a lancet, and to east, 2 lancets. Apses have 3 lancets and another in the return angle. Rear has a central segmental pointed archway with gargoyle stops and flanked by stacks. Beyond, small 2-light pointed arched windows. INTERIOR: rendered, with arch braced roof and apse with ribs, ringed wall shafts and corbels.

Listing NGR: SK5570042916