West Park Cemetery Chapels

PARISH OF LONG EATON LIME GROVE SK 43 SE 4/28 (South Side) West Park Cemetery Chapels GV II

Cemetery chapels. 1889 by Knight of Nottingham. Red rock faced stone with yellow sandstone dressings, moulded plinth copings and continuous sill bands. Steeply pitched red plain tile roofs with lapped stone copings to gables and crested ridge tiles, also cruciform roof with leaded timber cupola to north side. Single storey and three bays, with small chapels to either side of a central lobby. North elevation has a porte cochere with roll moulded pointed arches on attached shafts with foliage capitals to three sides. In the spandrels of each arch there are two roundels with recessed trefoils within and above a corbelled frieze with three stepped blind lancets above. Northern piers have stepped angle buttresses rising into tall steeple pinnacles with panelled sides, similar pinnacles to southern corners. Above is the octagonal timber cupola with fancy open timberwork to sides and a thin bell canted leaded spire above with timber lucarnes on four sides. Behind the porte cochere is a pointed ovolo moulded arch with Caernarvon arched lintel and blind tracery to tympanum. To either side there are triple cusped headed lancets with leaded lights and iron grills. Above in the roof there are small louvred timber dormers with iron finials. West elevation has stepped buttresses to either side of a pointed 3-light plate tracery window and a small trefoil headed lancet in the gable above with stringcourse below. East elevation has a central canted bay with trefoil headed lancets to each angled side and blank east wall, flanked by angle buttresses, also with stringcourse above in the gable. South elevation has advanced central gabled bay with three stepped trefoil headed lancets to front and plain chamfered doorcase to west. To either side there are similar triple lancets, as those to north elevation.

Listing NGR: SK4869233703