Cemetery Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1974. Cemetery chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Cemetery Chapel
- WRENN ID
- heavy-newel-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP: Kevin McKenna (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1974
- Type
- Cemetery chapel
- Address
- Cemetery Chapel, Bell Road, ME10 4EB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 905 630
- Coordinates
- 51.33466, 0.7344
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cemetery Chapel, built in 1860, is located on the west side of Bell Road in Sittingbourne. Constructed from ashlar blocks with stone dressings, it features two mortuary chapels connected by a passageway that includes a central carriage arch. The building is single-storey with a tiled roof adorned with bands of fishscale tiles. The windows are either single or double lancets, and there are buttresses supporting the structure. Each chapel has a rose window on its side. The front elevation showcases a foliated window in the chapel and two lancets on either side of the passage. A central pseudo-bellcote displays a date stone. The Cemetery Chapel, along with Nos 46 to 50 (even) and the wall to the cemetery, forms a cohesive group.
Local climate
Cemetery Chapel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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