Cemetery Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1999. Chapel. 6 related planning applications.
Cemetery Chapel
- WRENN ID
- tenth-zinc-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1999
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SO94NW 648-1/1/107
PERSHORE
DEFFORD ROAD (West side (off)) Cemetery Chapel
II
Cemetery Chapel, part now workshop. 1875. Of coursed rubblestone with ashlar limestone dressings. Plain tile roof with stone verges and decorative ridge tiles. STYLE: Gothic Revival. EXTERIOR: 2 chapels, E one with tower, divided by tall, gabled, hearse entrance. E, formerly Anglican, chapel: offset buttresses, some diagonal; side-windows of 2 cusped lights and a trefoil over; similar, larger, east window under hoodmould with decorative stops; protruding eaves course and chamfered plinth. W chapel, formerly Roman Catholic, is similar but smaller. Hearse entrance has tall steeply-pitched gables with 3 trefoil openings; moulded pointed arches with decorative stops, 3/4 round shafts, and stiff-leaf capitals; high, moulded, plinths; diagonal corner buttresses. Within archway are opposed chapel doors. Tower on SE side of archway is 4-sided and has splay-footed spire with 8 louvred lancets below frieze; weather vane; angled lower string-course; plinth. The W chapel has been used as a workshop since 1936. INTERIOR: not inspected. A well-articulated example of its type.
Listing NGR: SO9378045358
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