Cemetery Chapels is a Grade II listed building in the South Holland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. Chapel. 1 related planning application.

Cemetery Chapels

WRENN ID
mired-terrace-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Holland
Constituency
South Holland and The Deepings MP: Sir John Hayes (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 December 1987
Type
Chapel
Address
Cemetery Chapels, Park Road, Holbeach, PE12 7EE
OS grid reference
TF 362 250
Coordinates
52.80616, 0.01914
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cemetery Chapels, built in 1854, serve as the Church of England and Non-Conformist Cemetery Chapels, and are now used as an ecumenical cemetery chapel and store-room. They are constructed of stock brick with limestone ashlar dressings and feature an ornamental slate roof with stone coped gables, decorative ridge tiles, and cross finials.

The chapels are single storey and are divided by a tall pointed archway topped with a tower that has four-stage diagonal buttresses and upper gablets leading into ornate corner pinnacles. An octagonal spire rises above, adorned with tall trefoil-headed openings and ornate gablets on each side, culminating in a finial. The underside of the tower showcases a rib vault with ornate corbels and bosses. Both chapels have plinth and sill bands running around them.

On the west side of the north chapel, there is a single pointed window featuring single cusped ogee-headed lights flanking a pointed, cusped light, with flowing tracery, a hood mould, and head label stops. The north side has a central projecting rectangular bay, with single pointed windows on either side, each containing two pointed, cusped lights, hood moulds, and head label stops. The return walls of the projecting bay have small trefoil-headed lights with hood moulds and head label stops. The projecting bay also includes a pointed plank doorway with hood moulds. The east end features a pointed window with three cusped, ogee-headed lights, flowing tracery, a hood mould, and head label stops.

The south side has a pointed doorway set beneath the tower arch, with double plank doors and a hood mould. The south chapel mirrors the north chapel's design, with its doorway located on the north side beneath the tower arch, while the projecting rectangular bay to the south has its doorway blocked. The interiors of both chapels are characterized by lierne rib vaults with ornate bosses and angel corbels.

Local climate

Cemetery Chapels sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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