Cemetery Chapel and Mortuary is a Grade II listed building in the Broxtowe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1987. A C19 Cemetery chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Cemetery Chapel and Mortuary
- WRENN ID
- tired-cellar-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broxtowe
- Constituency
- Broxtowe MP: Juliet Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1987
- Type
- Cemetery chapel
- Address
- Cemetery Chapel and Mortuary, Cemetery Road, Stapleford, NG9 8AP
- OS grid reference
- SK 492 372
- Coordinates
- 52.92996, -1.26939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cemetery Chapel and Mortuary, built in 1880 for Joseph Fearfield, is designed in the style of the 13th and 14th centuries. It features a linked archway and is constructed of brick and ashlar with slate roofs. The building has ashlar dressings, a chamfered plinth, and eaves, along with moulded sill bands that have stops. The gables are shouldered and coped, with gabled kneelers. Most windows are lancets with linked hood moulds and stops.
The chapel and mortuary are single-storey structures with three bays. On the west side, there is a central stilted segmental arch supported by ringed shafts, flanked by corner buttresses with two set-offs. Above the arch is a granite lintel inscribed with "This Cemetery ground is the gift of Joseph Fearfield, Esqre. Stapleford 1880." The east side is similar but lacks ornamentation and features four 13th-century style pinnacles.
The octagonal spire has a stepped base with a gable and cross on the west side. The bell stage includes eight double lancet louvred openings and moulded eaves with gargoyles. The spire is topped with four gabled lucarnes, a finial, and a cross. There is a flanking porch on the left with a 20th-century casement, and a porch on the right with a chamfered unglazed trefoil.
Both the mortuary and chapel have a central buttress on the west side, two lancets, and above, a spherical triangle window with a hood mould. Above this, there is a small triple lancet. The east ends are similar but do not have buttresses. The chapel features a central buttressed gabled porch with a 13th-century style doorway with shafts and a shouldered moulded inner doorway. The mortuary has a similar porch with a 20th-century door, flanked by flat-roofed 20th-century additions. Inside, there are shouldered doorways on each side, and the chapel contains 19th-century benches and a desk.
Local climate
Cemetery Chapel and Mortuary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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