Cemetery Chapel, Including Retaining Walls at Either Side is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1975. Chapel.
Cemetery Chapel, Including Retaining Walls at Either Side
- WRENN ID
- twisted-plinth-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1975
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Cemetery Chapel, Including Retaining Walls at Either Side, Drew Street, Brixham
- OS grid reference
- SX 921 551
- Coordinates
- 50.38672, -3.51801
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cemetery chapel, including the retaining walls on either side, was built in 1861. It is constructed from coursed and squared Devonian limestone rubble, with red-brick quoins and wall tops. The chapel features a slated roof with a gable end facing the street. The building consists of a small oblong room with a wide doorway in the center of the front wall, and a matching doorway at the rear wall that is now blocked. Designed in the Gothic style, the chapel is one storey tall and has a tall, wide chamfered doorway with a pointed arch and double plank doors. This doorway is flanked by two lancet windows, each with pointed arches and six panes. Above the doorway is a shield inscribed "A.D.1861." The front of the chapel has red-brick quoins and wall tops, which are finished with a stone coping and kneelers. Each side wall has two lancet windows with pointed arches, which are now blocked. The retaining wall is made of red bricks, arranged with three upright bricks alternating with three headers, and features chamfered coping on top. Pilasters interrupt the wall face at regular intervals, rising above the coping and capped with red-brick gables.
Inside the chapel, the space is plain, showcasing exposed tie-beam trusses with raking struts connecting to the principal. A few original benches remain, representing an early example of polychrome Gothic architecture. This nonconformist chapel has its own cemetery at the rear, adjacent to the Church of England churchyard of St Mary the Virgin.
Local climate
Cemetery Chapel, Including Retaining Walls at Either Side receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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