Cemetery Chapels is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1992. Cemetery chapels. 1 related planning application.
Cemetery Chapels
- WRENN ID
- unlit-gateway-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1992
- Type
- Cemetery chapels
- Address
- Cemetery Chapels, London Road
- OS grid reference
- SK 805 529
- Coordinates
- 53.06735, -0.79891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cemetery Chapels, built in 1856, are now used as tool stores. Constructed from rockfaced stone and brick, they feature limestone dressings and patterned plain tile roofs in a Decorated style. The chapels have a chamfered plinth and string course, with coped gables. The symmetrical layout includes a central archway and bell turret, flanked by single chapels with side porches. The moulded central archway has a hood mould and imposts, supported by single buttresses topped with crocketed pinnacles. Above the arch is a traceried coped gable.
The two-stage bell turret has angle buttresses on each stage, with gabled lower buttresses and pinnacles on the upper ones. The square bell stage features four ogee-headed crested openings, and above it is an octagonal needle spire with a tier of lucarnes. Under the arch, there is a brick vault with stone ribs, and on either side, there are shouldered doorways. A memorial tablet from 1918 is located on the north side.
The chapels are connected to the entrance arch by single bay links, each with a lancet. The east ends have angle buttresses topped with pinnacles and traceried crests on the gables. Each east chapel window features triple lancets with different tracery, stepped sill bands, and hood moulds with stops. The east chapel window also has tiny flanking niches, and above each triple lancet is an oval window. The inside return angles have single lancets.
The north and south sides have central porches with coped gables and kneelers, along with small flanking buttresses. The doorways are moulded with hood moulds, and there are similar inner doorways. Each side has a single lancet. The west ends have angle buttresses and plain coped gables with kneelers, featuring similar fenestration to the east ends. The north chapel has a lancet to the left of the link. The rendered interiors have stepped sill bands on the east and arch-braced double purlin roofs, with central shouldered doorways opposite the porches.
Local climate
Cemetery Chapels sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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