South Western Chapel at Kirkley Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1998. Cemetery chapel.

South Western Chapel at Kirkley Cemetery

WRENN ID
quiet-rubble-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Lowestoft MP: Jess Asato (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 January 1998
Type
Cemetery chapel
Address
South Western Chapel at Kirkley Cemetery, London Road South, Lowestoft
OS grid reference
TM 537 911
Coordinates
52.45909, 1.73411
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The South Western Chapel at Kirkley Cemetery is a cemetery chapel built in 1880 by JL Clemence. It features random stone construction with stone dressings and a roof made of alternating bands of plain and fishscale tiles. Designed in the Early English style, the chapel has stepped angle buttresses and coped gables. The simple nave includes four small lancet windows on the sides and a north porch. The east end has three tall lancet windows above a continuous blind arcade. A bellcote is situated on the western end gable, beneath which is a row of three lancets above a lean-to bier shed, although the doorway to this shed is now blocked. The chapel forms a group with the northeastern chapel and the lychgate nearby.

Local climate

South Western Chapel at Kirkley Cemetery receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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