Cemetery Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Chapel.

Cemetery Chapel

WRENN ID
roaming-truss-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Lindsey
Constituency
Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1987
Type
Chapel
Address
Cemetery Chapel, Boston Road, Horncastle
OS grid reference
TF 263 686
Coordinates
53.19954, -0.10956
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cemetery Chapel, built in 1888, is constructed from coursed blue lias rubble with limestone ashlar dressings. It features slate roofs adorned with decorative red ridge tiles, stone coped gables, and cross finials. The chapel includes a nave with a north-west spirelet, a south vestry-store room, and a small chancel. An ashlar dressed plinth encircles the entire building. A moulded string course runs beneath the west window, which has a pointed head, three cusped lights, decorated tracery, a hood mould, and label stops. Above this, a steep gable rises with a cusped oculus.

On the north-west side, a diagonal buttress leads to an octagonal ashlar turret, featuring eight pointed, cusped, narrow openings, a spirelet, and a finial. The north side has three bays, with the central bay projecting slightly and having a steep gable. A large central pointed doorway, flanked by single pointed, cusped windows, features ashlar quoins, a hood mould with label stops, and double plank doors. Above the doorway is a shield inscribed with "1888".

The east end has a single pointed window with a trefoiled head and a trefoiled mouchette above it. The south side of the chancel contains a single cusped lancet. The east front of the south vestry features a large triangular-headed doorway with a chamfered surround and triple plank doors. The south side has a curved triangular window with cusping. The west end of the vestry includes a large triangular-headed doorway with a chamfered surround, a hood mould, foliate label stops, and a triple plank door, with a plate trefoil in the gable above. The south side of the nave also has a single cusped lancet.

Local climate

Cemetery Chapel 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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