Henley Cemetery Nonconformist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1996. Chapel.
Henley Cemetery Nonconformist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- gilded-facade-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1996
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BIX AND ASSENDON
12-JUL-1996 A423, (South side) Lower Assendon Henley Cemetery Nonconformist Chapel
GV II
Nonconformist cemetery chapel, 1868
MATERIALS: Knapped flint with freestone dressings and clay tile roof.
PLAN: Nave and short chancel with north entrance porch
EXTERIOR: Steeply pitched roofs with bands of shaped tiles, crested ridge-tiles and stone coping to gable ends with finials and corbelled kneelers. Remains of dismantled bell-cote over east end of nave. Shallow buttresses with multiple off-sets. Stone plinth-course and string-course at base of windows. Two-light east window and three-light west windows have Geometric Decorated tracery; windows to north and south are small cusped lancets. Pointed-arched north and south doorways, the doors having ornate wrought-iron hinges.
INTERIORS: Simple rendered chamfered chancel arch. Scissor-braced roof. Fixtures and fittings removed.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The Nonconformist chapel at Fairmile Cemetery, built in 1868, is listed for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: the building is handsomely built, well detailed and comparatively unaltered. * Group value: it forms a pair with the neighbouring Anglican chapel, and the two form the centrepiece to an intact Victorian cemetery landscape. Listing NGR: SU7442884468
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