Anglican Chapel at Highland Road Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 2004. Chapel.
Anglican Chapel at Highland Road Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- stranded-clay-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 2004
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Anglican Chapel at Highland Road Cemetery, City of Portsmouth
- OS grid reference
- SZ 658 989
- Coordinates
- 50.78621, -1.06655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Anglican Chapel at Highland Road Cemetery in Southsea is a cemetery chapel built around 1854, designed by architect Thomas Ellis Owen. It is constructed of grey stone rubble with Bath stone dressings and features a slate roof, which likely once supported a spirelet. The chapel is a rectangular structure with two bays.
On the exterior, the west end showcases a gabled bellcote with pseudo-machicolations beneath it. Below this, there is a blank lancet window and a gabled porch featuring a pointed arch supported by stone colonnettes, with a double door that has scrolled iron hinges. The north and south sides are adorned with carved stone brackets at the eaves and arched windows that include double trefoils and quatrefoils above, separated by stone buttresses. The east end has a larger arched window with triple trefoils below and a pattern of quatrefoils above, all under a dripmoulding supported by stone corbels. Additionally, there is a deep plinth and a decorative band on the east end only.
Historically, Highland Road Cemetery is notable as the only cemetery designed by Thomas Ellis Owen. This Gothic-style stone chapel provides an interesting contrast to the nearby Byzantine-style Non-conformist chapel, which is built of polychrome brickwork.
Local climate
Anglican Chapel at Highland Road Cemetery receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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