Cemetery Chapels is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Chapel.
Cemetery Chapels
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-barrel-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Cemetery Chapels, the Causeway, Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 338 442
- Coordinates
- 52.08007, -0.04865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cemetery chapels, built in 1879, are a pair of structures under a single roof located in Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth. They feature polychrome brickwork in red, blue, and gault, with some stone dressings and a 20th-century tile roof. The layout consists of two parallel chapels sharing a common porte cochere. Each chapel has an altar apse aligned with the entrance door in the porte cochere. Designed in a Gothic style, the chapels have lancet windows and are single storey. The front showcases triple gables, with the left and right gables having brick copes, while the central gable over the porte cochere is recessed, all topped with crosses. The outer gables feature triple lancets set within larger arches, along with a loop-hole above, and each side has a stepped buttress. Elaborate kneelers adorn the gables. The central gable includes an open archway to the carriageway, a roundel above, and a trefoil circular window in the gable. The rear of the chapels mirrors the front but lacks the coped gables and buttresses. Each side has a polygonal apse with three lancets and a pyramidal roof.
Inside the porte cochere, there are pairs of double doors on each side leading to the chapels. The porte cochere features a boarded roof with brattished collars and king-post trusses. The chapels themselves have boarded roofs supported by arched-braced trusses on corbels, along with altar tables and pews. A notable aspect of these well-preserved chapels is the fine polychrome brickwork found both inside and out.
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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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