Western Chapel in Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1984. A Not specified Chapel.
Western Chapel in Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- sacred-vestry-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1984
- Type
- Chapel
- Period
- Not specified
- Address
- Western Chapel in Cemetery, North Road, Egremont
- OS grid reference
- NY 008 115
- Coordinates
- 54.48958, -3.53183
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Western Chapel in the cemetery, built around 1864, is currently used as an equipment store. It features rough-dressed coursed, squared rubble on a chamfered plinth and includes buttresses. The chapel has a steeply-pitched graduated slate roof with stone copings on the gables, which are adorned with kneelers and apex crosses. The building has a Latin Cross plan and consists of a single tall storey with three bays. A lower vestry is located at the center on the west side. Both the north and south ends have doors with pointed heads, each set under a shallow gabled porch. The south porch is notable for having a single, squat, polished granite column with a foliate capital on each jamb. The windows are single-light with cusped heads, except for the projecting central east bay, which features a large, traceried window.
Local climate
Western Chapel in Cemetery sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,570 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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