Mortuary Chapels At Ware Cemetery

WARE TOWN

TL3414NE WESTMILL ROAD 829-1/5/186 (South side) Mortuary Chapels at Ware Cemetery

GV II

Mortuary chapels, now disused. 1854-1855. By Thomas Smith, architect. Brick, with cement rock' facing, with bitumen-linedjoints', artificial stone dressings, cast cement or Coade stone ornamental bosses and gargoyles, Welsh slated roofs. L-plan, with twin chapels of 3 bays each at right angles, south chapel for Anglicans, north chapel for non-conformists, with tower in re-entrant. Free interpretation of 14th century Decorated style. Chapels have projecting buttresses, with lancet windows, with cusped, and curvilinear traceried heads, principal E and W windows of Anglican chapel and N window of non-conformist chapel, having 3 lights, with cusped heads, and curvilinear tracery with mouchettes. All windows in moulded reveals, with dripmoulds above, those on side elevations continuations of reveals, with dripmoulds above, those on side elevations continuations of string courses. Principal east and north doors flanked by colonnettes, with moulded caps and moulded arches, and dripmoulds with ornamental bosses. (Heath C: The Book of Ware. A Portrait of the Town: Chesham: 1977-: 83).

Listing NGR: TL3495314987