Cemetery Chapel

TF 36 NW HORNCASTLE BOSTON ROAD (east side)

4/14 Cemetery Chapel II

Cemetery chapel. 1888. Coursed blue lias rubble with limestone ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with decorative red ridge tiles, stone coped gables and cross finials. Nave with north-west spirelet, south vestry-store room, small chancel. Ashlar dressed plinth runs round entire chapel. Moulded string course rises to run below west window with pointed head, 3 cusped lights, Decorated tracery, hood mould and label stops. Steep gable rises above with cusped oculus. North west diagonal buttress rises up to octagonal ashlar turret with 8 pointed, cusped, narrow openings, spirelet and finial. 3 bay north side with central steeply gabled bay projecting slightly. Large central pointed doorway with ashlar quoins, hood mould with label stops, double plank doors and shield above inscribed: "1888". Doorway flanked by single, pointed, cusped windows. East end with single pointed window with trefoiled head with trefoiled mouchette above. South side of chancel with single cusped lancet. East front of south vestry with large triangular headed doorway, with chamfered surround and triple plank doors. South side with curved triangular window with cusping. West end of vestry with large triangular headed doorway with chamfered surround, hood mould, foliate label stops and triple plank door. Plate trefoil in gable above. South side of nave with single cusped lancet.

Listing NGR: TF2637768605