Cemetery Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1994. Chapel.

Cemetery Chapel

WRENN ID
lunar-grate-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brentwood
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1994
Type
Chapel
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The cemetery chapel, built in the mid-19th century, features random Kentish rag-stone walling with oolitic limestone dressings and slate roofs. It has a rectangular two-bayed nave to the east and a smaller chancel to the west, with a vestry located to the north of the chancel.

The exterior showcases several notable features, including an elaborate bellcote at the junction of the nave and chancel, which is adorned with gablets over lateral buttressing. Heavy buttresses are positioned at the angles and bay intervals of the nave. The south elevation has triple lancet windows in each bay of the nave, framed by heavy oolitic stone surrounds that follow the lancet form but are flat-topped. The buttresses are consistent in design, featuring overlapped coping stones that are battered out to a moulding, with three on the nave and one on the chancel. The bellcote has four gablets that rise to the apex, and both the east and west ends have copings with apex gablets.

The north elevation mirrors the south but includes a vestry gable at the west end, which has a triple lancet window set in a Gothic arched recess made of polygonal stonework. The central lancet is taller and has a trefoil form. The west end features a chancel window in a Gothic arched recess, along with a lower triple lancet window and an upper tri-lobed window that has split cusps and diamond-patterned lead canes, although the glass is missing. Above this, the prominent bellcote has a Gothic arched opening with an interior split-cusped trefoil, though the bell itself is missing. The roof pitches down on the north and south sides, and the north side has a blank vestry wall made of polygonal stonework.

The east elevation serves as the principal entrance, featuring a segment-headed doorway that is roll-moulded with broach stops at the base of the jambs, leading to a boarded door with decorative strap hinges. Above the doorway is a flat-based, spherical-sided triangular window with an inner rose design, which is based on a hexagon of roundels surrounding a central roundel, all containing split-cusped trefoils. The three spandrels also feature similar roundels, and the angle buttresses are consistent with those on the sides. The interior has not been fully inspected but appears to be plain.

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