Chapels, Cemetery

SO 72 NW NEWENT WATERY LANE

3/181 Chapels, Cemetery

GV II

Chapels: 1863 by Jacques and Son. Squared, coursed stone, ashlar dressings, tiled roof. H-plan, chapels at ends with single-storey link. Plain plinth, string course at window sill level throughout. Left: gable to chapel, square-set corner buttresses, save left return: 4-light Decorated tracery window, stone voussoirs over: quatrefoil in gable above. Projecting kneelers to parapet gable, cross-gablet apex. To right lower link, low window, Decorated tracery, stone voussoirs. Plain, sightly projecting eaves to carry gutter. Centre breaks forward, diagonally-set corner buttresses, central opening, moulded, pointed arch on responds up 1 stone step. Above sloping offsets to sides, moulded string, 2 further offsets, pair blind lancets centre with open quatrefoil over. Above moulded string, recessed centre and flat top, with stone finial and tall, iron cross (bellcote removed mid-late C20). Low, cross roof behind. To right mirrors left, but with central buttress to chapel gable, 2-light similar windows each side: stone cross on apex. Chapel doors in outer returns. Interior: cross passage, wrought-iron gates to passages in centre, vestries originally behind. Left-hand chapel nonconformist, fittings now removed to form store. Panelled, boarded ceiling, 2 arch-braced trusses rising from corbels. Anglican chapel to right, pews set chapel-wise. walls unplastered, open rafter roof. Porches to chapel doors in end returns removed mid-late C20. Forms group with cemetery gateway (q. v.). (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970.)

Listing NGR: SO7162325499