Old Charlton Cemetery Chapels

TR3142 DOVER OLD CHARLTON ROAD

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Pair of cemetery chapels. Circa 1870 by T. Talbot Bury of Dover. Rock-faced dressed stone rubble with Bath stone dressings. Steeply pitched plain tile roof the south east chapel with crested ridge tiles; stone caped gable ends with wrought iron finials and corbelled eaves.

Pair of single cell chapels, the Anglican chapel to north west and non-conformist to south east linked by porches to a central porte- cochere.

High Victorian Gothic; Early English and Venetian.

The south west front has gable ends of chapels to left and right with angle buttresses and tall 3-light plate tracery windows with order of nailheads in the arches. Central gable of Porte-cochere has diagonal buttresses and similar arch but with cusps and colonnettes on the responds. The fleche over the porte-cochere has been truncated. The linking porches have open wooden arcaded sides with narrow cusped arches. 2-light plate-tracery side windows and doorways with plate tracery in tympana, colonnettes and strap hinges to panelled doors. The liturgical east (actual N.E.) end of chapes with polygonal apse to left (non-conformist) and semi-circular apse to right (Anglican) with lancet windows. On the inner slope of each roof a small gabled ventilator with cusped arch and louvres.

Interior: said to have polychromatic brickwork.

Listing NGR: TR3171142774