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
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.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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