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
Constituency
West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1999
Type
Chapel
Address
Cemetery Chapel, Defford Road, Pershore, WR10 3BX
OS grid reference
SO 937 453
Coordinates
52.10652, -2.09223
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cemetery Chapel, part of which is now a workshop, was built in 1875. It is constructed of coursed rubblestone with ashlar limestone dressings and features a plain tile roof with stone verges and decorative ridge tiles. The chapel is designed in the Gothic Revival style.

The exterior consists of two chapels, with the eastern one featuring a tower and divided by a tall, gabled hearse entrance. The eastern chapel, which was formerly Anglican, has offset buttresses, some of which are diagonal. Its side windows consist of two cusped lights with a trefoil above, and it has a larger east window under a hoodmould with decorative stops. The chapel also has a protruding eaves course and a chamfered plinth.

The western chapel, which was formerly Roman Catholic, is similar in design but smaller. The hearse entrance is marked by tall, steeply-pitched gables with three trefoil openings. It features moulded pointed arches with decorative stops, three-quarter round shafts, and stiff-leaf capitals, along with high moulded plinths and diagonal corner buttresses. Inside the archway, there are opposed chapel doors.

On the southeast side of the archway, the tower is four-sided and has a splay-footed spire with eight louvred lancets below a frieze, as well as a weather vane and an angled lower string-course. The western chapel has been used as a workshop since 1936. This building is a well-articulated example of its type.

Local climate

Cemetery Chapel receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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