Chapel At Northern Cemetery

NOTTINGHAM

SK54SW HEMPSHILL LANE 646-1/3/255 (North side (off)) Chapel at Northern Cemetery

II

Cemetery chapel. 1900. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. Plinth, buttresses, coped gables. PLAN: nave and chancel, with vestry, external south aisle, south-west tower and spire, and west porch. EXTERIOR: chancel, single bay, has a traceried pointed arched east window, 5-lights. Vestry, to south, has a flat-headed window, 3-lights, to north, and a single lancet and pointed arched door to east. Nave, 3 bays, has to north a segment-arched doorway flanked by flat-headed traceried windows, 3-lights. West end has a truncated pointed arched window, 5-lights. South aisle, 3 bays, has coped parapet. Central segment-arched doorway flanked by buttresses, and beyond, 3-light windows, also segment-headed. Square south-west tower, 3 stages, has angle buttresses and an octagonal broach spire with 4 gabled lucarnes. To south and west, pointed arched doorways. above, slit lights on each side. Bell stage has a pointed arched triple bell opening on each side. West porch has angle buttresses and coped parapet. To west, a central doorway flanked by single windows, all segment-headed. To north, a similar doorway. INTERIOR: brick with ashlar bands and dressings, has common rafter roofs on corbels. Chancel has a keel moulded arch with double shafts and hood mould, and pointed arched door to south. Nave has segment-headed double doors to north, south and west, and patterned stained glass windows. Fittings include original choir stalls and clergy desk. (Nottingham through 500 years: Gray D: Nottingham: 1960-: 224).

Listing NGR: SK5316044947