Totnes Cemetery Mortuary Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1978. Chapel.

Totnes Cemetery Mortuary Chapel

WRENN ID
swift-postern-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1978
Type
Chapel
Address
Totnes Cemetery Mortuary Chapel, Follaton Road
OS grid reference
SX 792 604
Coordinates
50.43155, -3.70206
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Totnes Cemetery Mortuary Chapel is a later 19th-century building designed in the Gothic style. It features three bays and is topped with a Welsh slate roof that has cored gables, a crested ridge, and a central base for an unfinished bell tower or spire. The chapel is constructed from snecked Devonian limestone ashlar and includes arched, traceried windows with hood moulds. There is also an arched doorway with moulded reveals.

Local climate

Totnes Cemetery Mortuary Chapel receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 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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