Cemetery Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1976. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Cemetery Chapel
- WRENN ID
- grey-thatch-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth West MP: Jessica Toale (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1976
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Cemetery Chapel, Wimborne Road
- OS grid reference
- SZ 090 927
- Coordinates
- 50.73421, -1.87315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cemetery Chapel, built in 1877-1878 by C C Creeke, is an elaborately picturesque structure designed in the Decorated style. It is constructed from Purbeck stone with Bath stone bands and dressings, featuring large foliage corbels at the eaves cornice. The gables of the nave and transepts display a similar design, consisting of intricate wheel windows above five cinquefoiled lancets. Below these windows, on the west and south sides, there are trefoil-headed doorways. The nave windows are also cinquefoiled lancets. The polygonal apse is adorned with 2-light Geometrical windows. A buttressed tower is located at the angle of the south transept, which has a traceried frieze and a foliated cornice. This tower supports an octagonal spire featuring 2-light gabled windows that alternate with statues on high plinths, along with blind lucarnes positioned higher up. Additionally, there is a canted projection at the angle of the north transept that supports a polygonal turret.
Local climate
Cemetery Chapel receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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