Former Chapels at the Old Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Lincoln local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1973. Chapels.
Former Chapels at the Old Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- quartered-hammer-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lincoln
- Constituency
- Lincoln MP: Mr Hamish Falconer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1973
- Type
- Chapels
- Address
- Former Chapels at the Old Cemetery, Canwick Road
- OS grid reference
- SK 982 700
- Coordinates
- 53.21817, -0.52933
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former chapels at the Old Cemetery, designed by Michael Drury, were built in 1856 and are now disused. They are constructed from coursed and squared rubble with ashlar dressings and feature a plain tile roof. The buildings are designed in the Gothic Revival style, characterized by pointed arched windows and Geometrical tracery.
On the exterior, there is a chamfered and moulded plinth, a sill band, moulded eaves, and coped gables adorned with crosses and finials. The north side features a central gable with an archway and shafts, flanked by single gabled buttresses, and beyond this are single blocked 3-light windows. To the left, the octagonal east chapel has angle buttresses and three gables, each with a 4-light window, and roof gablets, although the fleche has been removed. To the right, the west chapel has an apsidal end and buttresses, with three bays containing six 2-light windows with hoodmoulds, and a 5-light window in the north gable.
There is a square north-west tower with three stages, which includes a gabled doorway with shafts on the north side. Above this doorway is a trefoiled vescia piscis, and to the east, there is a 2-light window. The third stage features a foiled corbel table and a rose window on the north side, while the other sides have 3-light windows. The spire has been removed.
Inside, the east chapel has an arch-braced conical roof with collars forming a corona, while the west chapel features a moulded stone arch leading to the apse and an arch-braced double purlin roof. Both chapels have foliage corbels. The cemetery itself was laid out by Henry Goddard.
Local climate
Former Chapels at the Old Cemetery receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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