West Park Cemetery Chapels is a Grade II listed building in the Erewash local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1986. Cemetery chapels.
West Park Cemetery Chapels
- WRENN ID
- fallen-wicket-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Erewash
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1986
- Type
- Cemetery chapels
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Park Cemetery Chapels are cemetery chapels built in 1889 by Knight of Nottingham. They are constructed from red rock-faced stone with yellow sandstone dressings, featuring moulded plinth copings and continuous sill bands. The roofs are steeply pitched with red plain tiles, lapped stone copings on the gables, and crested ridge tiles. The north side has a cruciform roof topped with a leaded timber cupola.
The chapels are single storey and consist of three bays, with small chapels on either side of a central lobby. The north elevation includes a porte cochere with roll moulded pointed arches supported by attached shafts with foliage capitals. Each arch's spandrels contain two roundels with recessed trefoils and a corbelled frieze with three stepped blind lancets above. The northern piers feature stepped angle buttresses that rise into tall steeple pinnacles with panelled sides, similar pinnacles are found at the southern corners. Above these is an octagonal timber cupola with decorative open timberwork and a thin bell-canted leaded spire with timber lucarnes on four sides.
Behind the porte cochere is a pointed ovolo moulded arch with a Caernarvon arched lintel and blind tracery in the tympanum. Flanking this are triple cusped headed lancets with leaded lights and iron grills. The roof features small louvred timber dormers with iron finials. The west elevation has stepped buttresses on either side of a pointed 3-light plate tracery window, with a small trefoil headed lancet in the gable above, and a stringcourse below. The east elevation features a central canted bay with trefoil headed lancets on each angled side and a blank east wall, flanked by angle buttresses and a stringcourse above in the gable. The south elevation has an advanced central gabled bay with three stepped trefoil headed lancets at the front and a plain chamfered doorcase to the west, with similar triple lancets on either side, mirroring those on the north elevation.
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