Cemetery Lodge

BARNSTAPLE

SS5633 BEAR STREET 684-1/3/18 (North side) Cemetery Lodge

GV II

Cemetery lodge. 1856. To the designs of Richard Davie Gould (Brooks). For the Barnstaple Burial Board. Snecked local stone rubble with bathstone dressings; slate roof with some surviving crested ridge tiles; stacks with stone shafts with ashlar quoins. Tudor style. L-plan lodge, fronting Bear Street and built within the cemetery walls. C20 bathroom addition to rear in angle between the 2 blocks. 2 storeys. Picturesque roofscape with coped gables; stone copings to chimney shafts. Stone mullioned windows with chamfered mullions, mostly with transoms. Asymmetrical 3-window range, gabled to the front at the right with a tall, gabled bellcote in the centre and a gabled half-dormer to the left. Central plank front door with big strap hinges in stone shouldered doorway with pyramid stops. Square 3-light bay window to left with hipped slate roof. Canted bay window to right of front door. 2-light windows to first floor with slit window below bellcote. Other elevations preserve some original windows. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the cemetery was founded by the Barnstaple Burial Board in 1856. RD Gould was the town surveyor. An unusually tall and ambitious adaptation of the Tudor style for a cemetery chapel. (Brooks C: Mortal Remains: Exeter: 1989-: 119).

Listing NGR: SS5668133336