Church of England Chapel Richmond Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1990. Chapel. 1 related planning application.

Church of England Chapel Richmond Cemetery

WRENN ID
open-portal-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Richmond upon Thames
Constituency
Richmond Park MP: Sarah Olney (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 May 1990
Type
Chapel
Address
Church of England Chapel Richmond Cemetery, Grove Road
OS grid reference
TQ 189 742
Coordinates
51.45505, -0.28967
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of England Chapel at Richmond Cemetery is a cemetery chapel built in 1875 by Sir Arthur Blomfield. It is constructed from squared hammer-dressed Kentish ragstone, featuring Bath stone bands and decorative elements. The chapel has a tiled roof with remnants of a fleche and stone coping on the gables, which include cavetto mouldings. It has a cruciform plan and a buttressed gable front that features a Gothic entrance arch inscribed with the words "IN THE GARDEN THERE WAS A NEW SEPULCHRE, THERE LAID THEY JESUS," along with diapered spandrels. Above the entrance are three lancets, with the central one being blind, and hood moulds; there is also a wheel window in the apex, although the apex stone is missing. The side elevations contain two lancets and transept gables with two-light windows that have foliate-pierced plate tracery. On the west side, there is a "belfry" that conceals a flue terminal from a fireplace. At the rear, there are three long lancets and a consecration stone. Inside, the chapel features a trussed-timber open roof, sedilia, a piscina, a tiled floor, altar steps (with the altar removed), a fireplace, and two bench seats.

Local climate

Church of England Chapel Richmond Cemetery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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