Cemetery Chapels is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1978. Chapel.
Cemetery Chapels
- WRENN ID
- swift-banister-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1978
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Cemetery Chapels, Drove Road, Biggleswade
- OS grid reference
- TL 197 449
- Coordinates
- 52.08973, -0.25376
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cemetery Chapels, built in 1867 by Hooker and Ladds, consist of a pair of chapels: one for the Church of England and the other for Non-Conformists. They are constructed from gault brick, featuring red brick and stone dressings, and topped with slate roofs that have terracotta ridge tiles. The chapels are designed in a Neo-Gothic style, characterized by large 4-light windows with trefoil heads. A central arched carriage entrance is flanked by these windows, and above it stands a slender tower with corner buttresses, a pyramidal roof, and 2-light windows that match the style of the chapels.
Local climate
Cemetery Chapels sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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