Cemetery Chapels at Basford Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1995. Cemetery chapel. 1 related planning application.
Cemetery Chapels at Basford Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- hidden-rampart-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nottingham
- Constituency
- Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1995
- Type
- Cemetery chapel
- Address
- Cemetery Chapels at Basford Cemetery, Nottingham Road, City of Nottingham, NG7 7BA
- OS grid reference
- SK 557 429
- Coordinates
- 52.98072, -1.17186
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cemetery chapels at Basford Cemetery, built in 1876, are now used as a store. They are designed in the Gothic Revival style, constructed from rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and feature steeply pitched patterned slate roofs. The exterior includes a plinth, buttresses, a sill band, a corbel table, and coped gables with crosses, some of which are missing. The building is single-storey and has three bays arranged in an H-plan.
The entrance bay has side corridors and is flanked by chapels with eastern apses. It slightly projects and features an enriched pointed arched opening under a gable that contains a wheel window and a hood mould. There are pointed arched doors on either side of the entrance arch. Each corridor has three pointed arched openings with cast-iron grilles, with the center opening being taller. The chapels have west gables with granite corner shafts, two boarded windows, and a smaller lancet above, all with hood moulds.
On the north and south sides, there is an off-centre cusped doorway with granite shafts and hood moulds. The west side has a lancet, while the east side has two lancets. The apses feature three lancets and an additional lancet in the return angle. The rear of the building has a central segmental pointed archway with gargoyle stops, flanked by stacks, and beyond this are small two-light pointed arched windows.
Inside, the chapels are rendered and feature an arch-braced roof, with an apse that includes ribs, ringed wall shafts, and corbels.
Local climate
Cemetery Chapels at Basford Cemetery sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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