Cemetery, The South Mortuary Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1976. Mortuary chapel.
Cemetery, The South Mortuary Chapel
- WRENN ID
- inner-pedestal-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1976
- Type
- Mortuary chapel
- Address
- Cemetery, The South Mortuary Chapel, the Down, Trowbridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 862 589
- Coordinates
- 51.32983, -2.19939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South Mortuary Chapel is a cemetery chapel built between 1854 and 1855 by C.E. Davis of Bath, designed in a modified Early English style. It is a low, four-bay chapel featuring a short, narrower polygonal chancel and a tower at the northwest end. The structure is made of stone and includes gabled buttresses, coped verges, and a tiled roof. It has short lancet windows and the main entrance on the west side features a pointed archway below a staggered triplet, with ironwork on the doors. The three-stage tower is topped by a small tented pyramidal roof over a shaped corbel cornice. The upper stage has a simple rectangular opening with engaged shafts, while the weathered capping of the second stage displays triple lancets and corner buttresses. The lower stage features pointed arches of two orders with a label. There is a lean-to extension to the east of the lower stage, which is joined to the chapel, with the entrance located below the tower.
Local climate
Cemetery, The South Mortuary Chapel receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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