Cemetery Chapels is a Grade II listed building in the Erewash local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 1986. Cemetery chapels.
Cemetery Chapels
- WRENN ID
- solitary-gargoyle-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Erewash
- Constituency
- Erewash MP: Adam Thompson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 1986
- Type
- Cemetery chapels
- Address
- Cemetery Chapels, Park Crescent
- OS grid reference
- SK 469 417
- Coordinates
- 52.97071, -1.30163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cemetery chapels, built in 1910 by A J Kilford, the Borough Surveyor, are a pair of structures designed in a late 13th century Gothic style. They are constructed from coursed squared rock-faced limestone with gritstone dressings and feature Welsh slate roofs topped with decorative ridge stacks. The chapels are linked by passages to a central carriageway, which is crowned by a tower and spire.
On the south elevation, there is a central double chamfered Gothic archway, supported by corbels, and flanked by angle buttresses. Above this archway is a 2-light Decorated style bell-opening, a quatrefoil frieze, and four crocketed pinnacles. The hexagonal stone spire is adorned with a band of quatrefoils at its midpoint. Short passageways on either side of the archway contain single lancet windows with hoodmoulds.
The steeply gabled chapels are reinforced with angle buttresses and feature large 5-light windows with geometrical tracery, along with small quatrefoils set within circles above. The north elevation mirrors this design with similar 5-light windows. The side elevations include steeply gabled porches and cusped 2-light windows.
Local climate
Cemetery Chapels sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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