Nonconformist Cemetery Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 1993. Cemetery chapel.
Nonconformist Cemetery Chapel
- WRENN ID
- steep-alcove-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 May 1993
- Type
- Cemetery chapel
- Address
- Nonconformist Cemetery Chapel, Chesterton Lane, Cirencester
- OS grid reference
- SP 014 012
- Coordinates
- 51.70965, -1.98082
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nonconformist Cemetery Chapel, built in 1871, is now used as a store by the Corinium Museum. It was designed by Medland of Gloucester and constructed by W Hinton of Cirencester. The chapel is made of rock-faced limestone with ashlar dressings and features a clay tile roof. It has a cruciform plan with a three-bay nave and a semi-circular apse at the east end, a north porch, and a corresponding vestry on the south side. The west gable is topped with a crocketed spirelet.
The east end showcases three pairs of lancet windows with cusped heads and hoodmoulds that have foliar stops, while the west end features a similar three-light window with geometrical tracery, a lantern with a bell, and a crocketed spirelet at the apex of the gable. The gabled north porch includes a pair of diagonal boarded studded doors with decorative strap hinges, set in a moulded stone surround with a cusped opening and hoodmould with foliar stops. The sides of the chapel have lancet windows with cusped heads and hoodmoulds with foliar stops, a plinth with a chamfered top, a weathered band course below the windows, and weathered side and angle buttresses. A wrought-iron cross is mounted on the spirelet, and a similar finial is located at the apex of the roof at the east end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Nonconformist Cemetery Chapel receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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