Church Of England Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 2003. Chapel.
Church Of England Chapel
- WRENN ID
- sombre-spire-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 2003
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of England Chapel in Margate Cemetery is a cemetery chapel, one of a pair, built in 1856 by Birch of Margate, with G Hadlow as the builder. It is designed in the Early English style and constructed from Kentish ragstone rubble with stone dressings. The chapel features a tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles and a gabled bellcote with a finial at the west end, though the bell is missing.
On the exterior, the west end has a trefoil window above an arched doorcase that includes colonnettes, and the door has ornamental ironmongery. The chapel is supported by buttresses. The south side features two gables with trefoil-shaped finials, double trefoliated windows, and a quatrefoil above, along with buttresses. The north side has a gable and a gabled transept with a double arched trefoil window and a quatrefoil above. The east window is traceried with a triple trefoil window and two trefoils with a quatrefoil above.
Inside, the chapel consists of two bays with an arch-braced roof supported by purlins and a ridgepiece on moulded stone corbels. The interior includes plank dado panelling, wooden pews, a tiled floor, and an original table altar with chamfered supports. The east wall features wall paintings created in 1905 by Gordon Hill, inspired by the style of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. These paintings depict an angel bearing palms on the right, an angel with a crown on the left, stencilled decoration with a centered "fleur de lys," and at the apex of the gable, two angels flanking a central cross.
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