Lodge, Entrance Gateway And Screen Walls Of Chapel Hill Cemetery The Old Cemetery Cottage

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SU 65 SW BASINGSTOKE CHAPEL HILL

2/60 Lodge (The Old Cemetery Cottage), entrance gateway and screen walls of Chapel Hill Cemetery II

Lodge, entrance gateway and bridge and screen walls of cemetery. Mid/Late C19. Knapped flint with limestone dressings, mathematical tiles over timber framing, slate roof. The entrance gateway has a bridge over with screen walls fanning out and lodge to left. Gothic style.

Lodge has 3 bay front to entrance, outer ones gabled with turret between. Two storeys on basement. Flint below, mathematical tiles above. Two light window and door to left, both covered by wooden verandah. Doorway to right flanked by windows. Above is a 2 light window, a stepped 3 light window and a 4 light window all with eaded lattice glazing. Gables with carved bargeboards, central spire between. The right hand gable has two projections on wooden brackets. Road elevation has external stack with offsets and brick top, similar at rear of right gable. Single storey rear wing to left. The lodge is set on a bruttressed screen wall with flight of steps.

Entrance gateway is formed by a cast iron bridge on chequerwork piers, decorative cast iron gates between. The piers are pierced by pointed arches, the right hand one has a room within lit by lancet windows.

Screen walls. That to left is under the lodge (see above) that to right is curved and buttressed and retains a grass bank.

The cemetery was opened in 1858 and had two chapels designed by Paulton and Woodman of Reading. This may be relevant to this building.

Listing NGR: SU6223851421