Funeral Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Basingstoke and Deane local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1984. Chapel.
Funeral Chapel
- WRENN ID
- dusted-wall-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Constituency
- North West Hampshire MP: Kit Malthouse (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1984
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Funeral Chapel, Highclere
- OS grid reference
- SU 444 593
- Coordinates
- 51.33185, -1.36278
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Funeral Chapel, built in the mid-19th century for the third Earl of Carnarvon by Thomas Allom, is an Early English style structure featuring three bays and a single cell. It is characterized by its exaggerated ornamentation and symmetrical elevations. The side elevations are topped with a roof made of scalloped blue tiles and an ornamental ridge. The walls are constructed from squared knapped flint with stone dressings, and include moulded eaves, deep chamfered frames around the lancet windows, a moulded cill band, a plinth, and stepped buttresses that are gabled at each end to meet the raised gable coping.
On the west elevation, there are three lancet windows, with the central one being taller, all set within hoodmoulds and supported by recessed columns on a raised cill band. The east front features a stone bell turret adorned with gables and gargoyles, which is supported by brackets and encloses a small arched opening. Below this turret is a wide doorway that consists of a Gothic arch with several recessed stages, resting on columns with moulded caps and bases. Inside, the chapel has an arch-braced timber roof and a floor that contains a central lettered tomb slab, flanked by a bank of stalls on each side, which exhibit French Gothic ornamentation. A secondary door is located in the west bay of the north elevation.
Local climate
Funeral Chapel receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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