Chapel at Rosary Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Chapel at Rosary Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- keen-mantel-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1972
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel at Rosary Cemetery, Rosary Road, NR1 1TQ
- OS grid reference
- TG 243 084
- Coordinates
- 52.62738, 1.31292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chapel at Rosary Cemetery, built in 1879 by E. Bohrdman, is a Gothic revival cemetery chapel located on the north-east side of Rosary Road. It features knapped flint with stone dressings and a plain tile roof. The structure includes a 2-bay nave, a chancel, a south porch, and a belfry above a porte-cochere. The nave has two-light windows and the chancel has single-light windows in a pentagonal apse, all with 2-centred cusped heads and drip moulds. A three-light traceried window is located on the west side, designed in a similar style. The nave is supported by angle buttresses and has gable parapets with shafted kneelers at the west end, while the east end is plain. Access is through a double-leaf door with wrought iron hinges in the porch, which has a 2-centred arch with stiff-leaf capitals. The attached porte-cochere features 2-centred arches on three sides, angle buttresses with pinnacles, and a pyramid roof topped by a belfry with moulded wooden detail and a shingled roof. Inside, there are 2-centred arches in the chancel and south with stiff-leaf capitals, and an arch-braced roof supported by stiff-leaf corbels. A re-set tablet on the south porch states: 'The Rosary burial ground for persons of all denomination registered at the office of the Lord Bishop of Norwich June 14th 1821.'
Local climate
Chapel at Rosary Cemetery sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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