South Chapel at City of London Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Newham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1984. Chapel.
South Chapel at City of London Cemetery
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newham
- Constituency
- East Ham MP: Sir Stephen Timms (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1984
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- South Chapel at City of London Cemetery, Aldersbrook Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 422 862
- Coordinates
- 51.55752, 0.05084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South Chapel at the City of London Cemetery was built between 1903 and 1904, designed by engineer D T Ross, as indicated by tablets on the building. This chapel, which was formerly a crematorium, is constructed of rubblestone with ashlar dressings and features a tiled roof decorated with fishscale patterns. It has a gabled Gothic design with a steeply pitched roof that reaches the parapet. A tower is set back to the right, featuring a triple louvred upper stage and a pyramidal roof topped with an elaborately ornamented octagonal iron flue. The central entrance to the chapel includes a pointed moulded arch and an original traceried timber door, flanked by double blind arcades. On either side of the chapel are ogee-headed windows, and there are gabled corner buttresses. There is a later Chapel of Remembrance extension at the rear, which is not of significant interest. This chapel is notable as the second crematorium in London and was originally coke-fired. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
South Chapel at City of London Cemetery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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